how do you find missing titles, effects, and generators in final cut pro x?

Actually, that's only one of two questions...

ONE

When I attempt to export a movie, uncompressed, not through Compressor and not sharing to an Apple device, I get an error saying my Project has "missing or offline titles, effects, or generators."

There is a little yellow warning triangle next to the project name.

But there are no little yellow warning triangles next to anything in my libraries, and everything plays through in the Timeline.

Before exporting, how can I identify the supposedly missing elements???

TWO

After attempting to export the same movie via the Share item to an iiPhone, i received a Quicktime Error: -50.

Interpretation, please?

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 11:25 AM

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17xande

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Posted on May 26, 2015 2:47 AM

Sometimes even after making sure that nothing is missing, I still get that same error. Today I found a strange but simple solution.

I decided to copy all the elements in the timeline to a new project to start looking for the problematic clip (I know, I could have simply duplicated the project, but for some reason I didn't). I selected all the clips in the timeline (Cmd + A) and copied them (Cmd + C). Suddenly, the dreaded missing media triangle disappeared. I repeated this process on all my projects with this issue it worked every time.

Perhaps copying all the videos in a timeline causes some sort of project media refresh that can't be triggered otherwise. It would be great if this could also be triggered when media in the project is relinked. #justsaying

So just for clarity, the solution is below:

Solution

Make sure there isn't actually any media missing.
Select all elements in the timeline (Cmd + A).
Copy selected elements (Cmd + C).

That's it. The error should no longer be displayed.

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rhodiad

Level 1

4 points

Feb 22, 2012 6:38 PM in response to Moviegoer

Same error message here. Oddly, I don't see any problems with the exported video, but it makes me uncomfortable.

rasu

Level 1

11 points

Aug 2, 2012 7:03 AM in response to pneumadeux

Hi, I am having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

do2

Level 1

6 points

Sep 23, 2014 9:17 AM in response to Michael Williams10

Same here.

Sep 23, 2014 10:16 AM in response to pneumadeux

What OS and what version of FCPX ?

Sep 23, 2014 11:31 AM in response to innocentius

Mavericks up to date FCPX 10.1.3 up to date

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