black screen past end of video when export

Ok I kind of get it, clicking the arrow points to different clips in my event browser. But to me that doesn't make sense. The timeline should show my project. So I have not idea how to just export the project. I have never been so confused as to what my current state of my project is. I deleted every thing started over and now i'm back to black screen even though there is no gap clip i know how to check for it now. I tihnk I'm with the rest to hate or dislike Final cut x, I will spend a more time reading the manual, but after staying up until 2:00 am last night, restarting 3 times. I'm no further ahead. I'm think I'm going to have to go back to Imovie, with one angle. Final cut is very confusing as to what my project is.

For example my procedure is.

1. Import video clips
2. import good mono audio
3. syncronize clips
4. view in timeline. (this is the point even after trimming i get the extra black. screen.
5. From here i edit my cut points of my different angles using the blade tool.
6. after all cuts are made
7. right click and make new compound clip to simplyfiy.
8. share.
9. but i get the black extended screen.
10. also seems no way to save a current state .
11. if you quit and come back, your project is not where you left off.
12. now i have to figure out which compound clip it is, now where is the audio.

file://localhost/Users/njdnjdnjd/Desktop/untitled%20folder/Screen%20Shot%202011- 10-21%20at%201.45.50%20AM.pngfile://localhost/Users/njdnjdnjd/Desktop/untitled%2 0folder/Screen%20Shot%202011-10-21%20at%201.45.54%20AM.pngfile://localhost/Users /njdnjdnjd/Desktop/untitled%20folder/Screen%20Shot%202011-10-21%20at%201.45.55%2 0AM.pngfile://localhost/Users/njdnjdnjd/Desktop/untitled%20folder/Screen%20Shot% 202011-10-21%20at%201.46.01%20AM.png

Well, so i finished up for the night, come back to my project, here, open my event. and nothing shows up in the timeline, but there is a new compound clip in my even library. I import that into the timeline and now the video does not have the black screen at the end but now will not export with my audio, even though when i play it in timeline my audio is playing just fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yd9Thz71yc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Just posted a video. The problem now started because I quit the program last night, in an effor to save what i have done. Well i opened the program up, thought i would leave off where i was stuck last night. and what do you know my project does not show up in my timeline, and now there is a new compound clip with no audio. 😠

after watching a compound clip video of some kid on youtube, I realized there are layers to these compound clips as you see in my youtube video showing my problem.

Please watch the video and help me.

Nick

I also learned that clicking horizontal lined button at the bottom left, shows all files being used and sure enough there was a gap clip in one of the compund clips. No matter what I did, I would not have know about it with out that file inspector. So i'm pretty sure that was causing my black screen problem.

Can someone explain why final cut does not restore the project in the timeline. This whole compund clip thing in the even viewer after you come back after a program quit is more than frustrating.

ok i figured out i wasn't adding my events into my project, I was just working on the event. So crucial to understand this. You can make full edits of events open in timeline. I thought that was my project... nope. to anyone else with the similar problem, click the movie roll button on the very bottom left. That will actually show your project. if you see no video there thats your problem. double click it, then import video to it. from the even browser.

Thanks to all who helped me! Thanks for your patinece. 🙂