I noticed several types of weird behaviour when clicking on Photos in FCP 10.6.6
Sometimes when a photo was dragged into the timeline I would get a missing remote media alert . . .
. . . . whilst at other times I would get a blurred or even a small sized image.
On reverting to FCP 10.6.5 all these anomalies disappeared, so I would suggest cautiously that it might be a bug in the latest version.
Could someone please test this theory.
iMac 27″ 5K
Last couple of days, I've experienced this same "Missing Remote Media" error message when dragging photos from FCP's browser or directly from Photos app.
There are similar complaints scattered on this user board, no proposed solutions worked for me.
Take a look at this Apple support article dated June 16, 2023:
If edits don't appear in photos imported into Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support
They're cautioning that pictures with edits should not be dragged from Photos or the Photos Browser.
You must first export from Photos to a file folder, then import from that folder into FCP.
Sure enough, all of my pictures that had failed with "Missing Remote Media" had been previously edited in Photos.
So I dragged a few unedited photos; they import perfectly and behave properlyon the timeline.
This is a poorly conceived implementation of drag 'n drop.
It adds a layer of wasted time and duplicated file storage.
Organized folders within Photos App are now of no benefit to Final Cut editors.
Has something changed? I don't recall having this problem in earlier releases of Final Cut Pro.
Hope this post is helpful; I've already submitted a report to Apple
Last couple of days, I've experienced this same "Missing Remote Media" error message when dragging photos from FCP's browser or directly from Photos app.
There are similar complaints scattered on this user board, no proposed solutions worked for me.
Take a look at this Apple support article dated June 16, 2023:
If edits don't appear in photos imported into Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support
They're cautioning that pictures with edits should not be dragged from Photos or the Photos Browser.
You must first export from Photos to a file folder, then import from that folder into FCP.
Sure enough, all of my pictures that had failed with "Missing Remote Media" had been previously edited in Photos.
So I dragged a few unedited photos; they import perfectly and behave properlyon the timeline.
This is a poorly conceived implementation of drag 'n drop.
It adds a layer of wasted time and duplicated file storage.
Organized folders within Photos App are now of no benefit to Final Cut editors.
Has something changed? I don't recall having this problem in earlier releases of Final Cut Pro.
Hope this post is helpful; I've already submitted a report to Apple
That's a slightly different problem from mine.
The effects I mentioned applied to all photos from the Photos app (I don't have any edited ones there) and everything was fine when I opened them in FCP 10.6.5.
It's no great problem for me as I rarely use Photos in that way . . . I have not done it since the original post and may not do it for another year or so!
I haven't seen the small, blurry image problem, but the other is immediately reproducible. With video the delay is even longer. Not long, just a bit disconcerting.
Accessing Photos app via FCP 10.6.6 bug?
