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Can't export or share my projects

I have about 20 high school soccer games plus a couple hours extra footage, edited down to a 145 minute project. But now I can't share or export - the choices are all greyed out. I've narrowed down the problem to a couple games that I must have imported differently. According to the info, the bad footage is "File Type: AVCHD plugin". All the rest of my footage is "File Type: quicktime movie." I've tried to reimport the clips, and nothing seems to change. I tried relink project files, but no options come up. I tried transcoding the media, and get the following message:


Camera Clips Selected

Camera clips cannot be processed. You must import/reimport these first in order to process.


Just about all of the footage was captured by me copying the footage directly from my SD card to my hard drive, then "Import media from a connected device." I'm beginning to think I'm doing this incorrectly because FCPX thinks I have 20+ cameras connected to the computer, but these are the only two games I've had any problems with.


One more thing, there's an icon by my Event and each of my Projects that looks like a yellow triangle with a '!' inside.


And then every time I repoen my main project, it has to rerender all of my titles. I think all of these problems are related...


BTW I'm running FCPX 10.0.4 on a 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 PowerBook laptop with 8GB RAM, running Mac OS 10.7.4, with an external 2 TB hard drive containing all of my footage. I've transcoded all my media to be using proxy media because I felt the computer was lagging a little. This is my first project with FCPX, so I've been learning as I go...


Thanks!

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 30, 2012 5:47 PM

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Posted on Aug 2, 2017 7:27 AM

I know this is an old post, but some - like I initially was - might still be interested in a work around.


Offline Media Red logo of **** had me right click the browser window. Select "Import Media". Re-import the missing files. Then "Relink" them via "File/Import/Relink" and things be all much good again.

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Aug 2, 2017 7:27 AM in response to Ghetty

I know this is an old post, but some - like I initially was - might still be interested in a work around.


Offline Media Red logo of **** had me right click the browser window. Select "Import Media". Re-import the missing files. Then "Relink" them via "File/Import/Relink" and things be all much good again.

May 31, 2012 6:52 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you. It just seems so time consuming. The clips don't look any different other than "File Type: AVCHD plugin". They play fine, edit fine, no icons to set them apart.


I created a new event, reimported the footage, and one by one am finding the clips, cutting them in a separate project using Start and Duration timecodes, then cutting and copying them into my big project. It'll take hours, but it seems to be working. It's a shame because in the old Final Cut I could simply 'Reconnect Media'. I teach Video Production, and have about 120 students next year, moving to FCPX. I hope this isn't a recurring problem...

Jun 5, 2012 11:06 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you very much for your help. I'm extremely frustrated, and I just don't get it. I've attached a screen shot. So here's a project with a single clip. It seems there's something wrong with the clip, but I don't see anything visual telling me there's a problem. There's no triangle or circle. It plays fine, edits fine, does everything but export.


I just spent 4 hours replacing every edit from the couple clips that seem to be bad, but the project still won't export. There's (hopefully) a very simple fix, but I'm at my wits end...


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Jun 26, 2012 9:29 AM in response to Ghetty

I happen to have the same problem. ( http://marcuswolschon.blogspot.de/2012/06/final-cut-pro-x-kamera-clips-ausgewahl t.html )

I imported AVCHD footage from a lot of SD cards and moved my event to an external drive.

Final Cut Pro X crashed 3-4 times during all that importing.



When the SD-card that has these clips is mounted while FCPX is starting up, I can see them but they have a camera symbol in the Event Browser.

When the SD-card is not mounted I get the triangle "missing clip" like Ghetty does.

The German message is:

"Kamera-Clips ausgewählt"

"Kamera-Clips können nicht verarbeitet werden. Sie müssen zuerst diese Dateien importieren/erneut importieren, um sie zu verarbeiten."


a)

The help system doesn't know the term "Kamera-Clips" at all. No Glossary or expanation as to it's meaning inside FCPX.

Only by sheer luck and trial and error I was able to guess what the english error message meight have been and found this ticket.

b)

I can select the problematic clips for import just as the message tells me to but they are ignored. Nothing happens.


What can I do?

I am unable to import these clips as FCPX thinks they are already fully imported.

How does this "relink" work and what is the German word used for it, so I can find it in my FCPX and my help system?

Jun 26, 2012 12:15 PM in response to MarcusWolschon

It sounds as if the clips weren't properly imported from the card, like it didn't finish copying before the card was pulled. You will have to reimport the media and make sure it copies to the event. You might also want to make archives of the cards. Relinking may help you. I don't know what the German phrasing will be, but it will be in the same position in the menus.


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Jun 26, 2012 12:50 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I couldn't reimport them.

As I said, FCPX thought they are already imported and does nothing when I select them in the import-dialog and click "import selected".


I had to delete the clips in the Event Browser, damaging the project that used them and then I was able to import them again, tag them again, assign camera name,...

Luckily none of the frequent crashes tonight happened during that import.

Also luckily the SD card was not already erased. Had this happened with any earlier clips the footage would have been lost.

Lesson learned: NEVER move events again. Only copy them and then delete the original. That feature is broken and may lean to data loss.


Next step: track some of them in Motion 5 and find out how to work around the missing integration between FCPX and Motion for anything besides effects.

Jul 16, 2013 10:20 AM in response to Ghetty

This is happening to me also. I have copied all my footage over to external drives, and have been importing it as I need it for a reality show project I'm producing. I have hundreds of hours of video in in h264 and AVC HD. I tried to show my exec producer some of the footage but none of the share options will work.


Using Final Cut X was a big mistake. It's not ready for Prime time.

Jul 16, 2013 10:35 AM in response to videoalex

The screen shot looks like an older version of FCPX, have you done the current upgrades? I started using Final Cut Pro X .08 about three months ago, yes, it took some time to let go of my previous experience with Final Cut Express, but with some patience and perceverience, I got it.


I've imported and exported a variety of footage and have not experienced a single problem with that. In my limited experience, FCPX certainly is ready for prime time, but what I've discovered reading many of the posts here is that many USERS are not ready for prime time, they don't take the time to learn the proper way to use FCPX, it's a completely different animal than the traditional version.

Jul 16, 2013 10:53 AM in response to kohanmike

I'm using .08 And I've been a professional editor for 13 years. I've made every rent payment and car payment in those 13 years thanks to Final Cut Pro, and I've bought every version they made (except 2. I went from 1 to 3) I spent months reserching final cut pro x and several weeks making the transition to X.


And now I'm humiliated. I can't show my exec producer footage, much less finish and prepare the episode. I've spent hundreds of dollars on things like the ability to export audio to my sound mixer, and still deal with problems like the new color correction tools being buggy on a daily basis.


At this point my plan is this: I now keep the project on an external drive, so I can take my laptop around to show the footage. When the episode is done, then I'll put an adjustment layer on the whole file, render the whole thing, and snatch the 40 minutes of render files, and reasseble them and the exported audio in a FCP 7 project.


SOUNDS GREAT.

Jul 16, 2013 10:54 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

RElinking the missing files doesnt work, becasue they are all there. the files all play fine in the timeline. and there is no indication what files the project thinks are playing from a camera card. relinking does nothing.


I need a utility to go through and scrub the XML and fix the links inside it so that it doesn't believe they are on camera cards anymore.

Can't export or share my projects

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