The share menu is greyed out

I am having the same problem but not sure what is causing it. I have the final cut pro X application saved in the application folder. The entire share menu is grayed out. Can someone please help?

I have uninstalled and installed multiple times and still can not get the share menu to work. It is completly greyed out. Am I missing something here? Final Cut Pro X is in my application folder just like in installs. I'm still not able to export. Anyone have a suggestion?

As I put on the other post - have you guys tried trashing your preferences?

Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free - and quite safe).

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

With Pref Manager, you can backup the Prefs first, then if trashing makes no difference, you can restore all your settings. It's frequently used when FCP X'goes south'.

Andy

Yes I have tried trashing my preferences. I went ahead and downloaded the preference manager and it did nothing different. I still have a greyed out share menu!

I suggest you create a new account on your Mac and open FCP X from there. If the problem goes away, you have a conflict between FCP X and something else on your system drive - do you have FC Studio or Final Cut Pro on there by any chance? (Not recommended).

Andy

I tried those suggestions weeks ago. . and no I don't have FC Studio or FCP. This was my first try with Final Cut. Very frustrated and about to request a refund. Oh and I didn't double post in one thread. It was a different thread so I posted the same reply. Sorry. . thought maybe somone in the other thread might be able to help as well. Didn't realize it was such a touchy issue.

I fought this problem for weeks before I started digging into the contents of FCPX and found out that I was missing the entire Plugins folder. Motion was missing it too. Luckily, my install of Compressor had it, so all I had to do was copy the Plugins folder from Compressor and paste it into FCPX. Worked like a charm!

macuserblitzz5,

Have you since found a solution to the greyed out "Share" menu? I have the same problem and have tried everything I can think of. It started when I upgraded from 10.0.1 to 10.0.3

I was able to go back and use 10.0.1 and that works fine. It's just that FCPX 10.0.3 has a greyed out Share menu.

I've tried re-installing it and everything under the sun. I'm getting the feeling that my Mac is too old? Maybe I'll look into system requirements after I wite this.

Click in the timeline...or even select one of your clips in the timeline...or

go to the projetcs section and select a project by clicking it ONCE.

The menus will become available ...usually.

xfggfx,

Yes, I am clicking (selecting) the timeline and/or any clip within the timeline. I also tried to select the project and the Share menu is always greyed out. For now I dumped FCPX version 10.0.3 and went back to 10.0.1 and it works just fine there.

Of course now that all my projects where 'updated' for 10.0.3 I have to start all over again re-creating my edits.

Could life be more frustrating?

Makes me think I will be a lot more hesitant about grabbing the next bug fixing version...%-/

SOLVED!

Or fixed rather...

I re-downloaded it from the App Store and I also started up Motion. I'm not sure if running Motion or re-installing FCPX did it but it enabled the share menu.

My guess is that the re-install helped

SOLVED - at least for my greyed out Cmd + E. I realised that it was my b-rolls had missing media and didn't import from the camera properly.

Went through a few forums and released that most of you out there were still facing the same problem with only reinstall as a solution.

My problem was some b-rolls media were disconnect, i.e. they weren't imported from camera completely. So what I did was recall and select the media that were disconnected in my timeline, right-click and "Reveal in Event Browser", then select the entire media, go to File > Import > Reimport from camera/archive then let FCPX to do its thing. I realised that if the media clips aren't properly imported, this option would be available. For those that are imported properly, "reimport from camera/archive" would be greyed out. Hope this helps.

Adrian @ splices.tv

Had the same problem. Adrian's solution worked for me: reimport clips in Event Library.

I don't understand any of this conversation.
I tried the "re-Link" but it never allowed me to relink. It seemed it didn't need to be linked.
But I also have the grey out like everyone in this stream.
Do I have to upgrade to latest FCPX?
If I re-install will I lose everything attached to my software? Meaning: all video content, and plugins.
I just can't re-install video from camera. I have spent 2 months editing 13 projects. And now I can't share anything. I also got rid of Mackeeper. I heard theat was a problem for it.

I need some direct soulutions if possible.

Thanks.