Break Apart Clip Items?

You cannot break apart re-time (such as make it faster or slower) group clip, set to normal speed (100%) and break apart.

^^^ I had the same issue and this solved it. I had to first "reset speed" on the clip then Command-Shift-G worked.

The same problem - not every compound clip is allowed to be broken apart? I can’t get what the point is

What are you doing to break apart the compound clip? Where is the compound clip? What version OS and FCP are you using? Most of this thread is months old or older.

The answers -

(What are you doing to break apart the compound clip?) Just shift-cmd-g

(Where is the compound clip?) The compound clip is on timeline

(What version OS) OS is the latest with all updates by today

(and FCP) FCP is 10.2.1

If you select the compound and press Shift-F it should take you to the browser. Can you post a screen shot of your screen? Will the compound break apart after that?

Try relaunching the application holding Opt-Cmd. Try making a new admin user and testing the application there. Try reinstalling the application.

For sure, I relaunched the app and a computer - nothing changed

No, you need to relaunch the application holding down Option-Command to reset the preferences. This is the first step in any trouble shooting.

This is a compound clip within a compound clip, is that correct?

You are exactly right - this is a nested compound. Have reset the preferences, unfortunately nothing is changed

Two other suggestions:

try a new user

reinstall the application.

I tried a few basic tests of this and couldn't reproduce the problem. It may be specific to the media and the projects of the project and compound clips and/or the media. I couldn't report with AVCHD and multilayer compounds nested into a project.

Thank you a lot for your attention. I have a really "zoo" inside - mpeg, dv, ProRes h.264 & I guess, a plenty of others. Anyway I guess this is an Apple's fault - I can break apart any precompos in After Effects with no matter what kind of media it has inside. But I still thinking FCPX is the best video-editor

Breaking apart precomps in AE has absolutely nothing at all remotely to do with compound clips in FCP. The code of AE, a motion graphics application, has zero to do with a non-linear editing system. Comparing what you can do in one application written on one code base with what you do in another application that use a completely different code base is meaningless.

Have you tried any of the other suggestions I offered?

Sure I did all of them, except reinstalling the app - I can't do it now.

I didn't say that AE is NLE, did I? I just wanted to show that there is some app not so sensitive to media type. I mean if it takes a material it either has to work with it in all manifestations or doesn't at all.

Media type was only a possibility. I never said that was the cause. People put all sorts of weird crap in projects that causes strange behavior.

If the problem can be reproduced in a new user and library, I don't know what's causing it, but you should use feedback to report it to Apple. I can't see any reason from what you've said or shown why it wouldn't work. I've tried AVCHD, DV, XDCAM, ProRes, and stills in a project made into a compound clip. Gone into the compound, added more stills and XDCAM, compounded, lengthened the first compound, went back into the compound, and could break the nested compound apart, and the main compound in the project.

Finally I figured out how to treat this issue. I just copied all the stuffing of the compound to a new empty one. After that I just substituted the old compound with new, and it started working. I do not know what the problem was, might be just because the project was moved from another library.