What do these symbols in the FCPX Project Library mean?

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What do these symbols in the FCPX Project Library mean?

What do these symbols in the FCPX Project Library mean? They appear between the title of the project and the beginning of the "filmstrip" that shows a preview of the project.

I presume the large triangle with the exclamation mark indicates that there is missing video footage in the project and that the symbol above it (that looks like an audio symbol) with the small triangle with the exclamation mark indicates missing audio. I don't have any idea what the audio symbol without the triangle means.

But, the thing is that I don't see any missing audio footage in the projects that show the audio symbol with the exclamation-mark triangle, so I don't know what to make of that, either.

Can someone explain what these symbols in these screen captures indicate?

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 7:00 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Feb 20, 2013 7:04 AM in response to JDLee

First one means there is missing media.

The bottom one means the project has been shared.

The middle one means the project has been shared and then altered since sharing.

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Answer 2

JDLee Author

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Feb 20, 2013 7:15 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you, Tom.

So, what I thought was an audio symbol must be a broadcast symbol? And the large triangle that indicates missing media must indicate missing video & audio, video, and/or audio media?

I'm sure there's somewhere in FCPX Help that I could have found that information, but I don't know where. And moving the mouse pointer over them doesn't cause a description to pop up (which is what I would expect).

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