Hi, really hope someone can help me. I imported some video and synced it with the audio. Was editing fine for about an hour. Got up for a few minutes and when I came back, the video clips in the library and in the timeline had gone black. I tried deleting FCPX's preferences and restarting my computer and still nothing. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Update: I tried to re import the media into the existing event and it wouldn't do it. I created a new event and tried to import the video and that did not work either. It's like it doesn't recognize the video anymore and this is after I trashed the existing media in the library.
If you open the original clips in the Finder, do they play?
What is the format of the (video) clips and where dod they come from?
Do you have optimized versions of these clips?
Russ
Ok one more reply. I've been testing this further and it looks like when the transcoding and analysis finishes, that's when the video suddenly turns black. I don't know why this would happen. help!
Hi Russ, Yes the originals play in finder. The clips came from shooting on my Canon 5d mark ii. I saved them to an external hard drive as .mov files. And I selected the optimized media option when importing. Also, I just replied that it seems when the transcoding and analysis finishes is when the clips turn black.
Just to confirm - I have the exact same problem, and tried the same remedies, to no avail.
Happened with the latest event, earlier events seem to be ok.
Footage is AVCHD from a Sony RX 10.
Could it be linked to the latest El Capitan update (10.11.1)?
Regards
Rabbe
If you're still having those issue, create a new, test library. Drag one of your clips into the test library's event. Assuming that it doesn't display, select the event and from the File menu, Delete Generated Event files. In the dialog, choose to delete all renders, optimized and proxy. Any luck?
Russ
The "Delete Generated Event Files" command did not fix this problem, even if the problematic clips were moved to another library.
Troubleshooting this from a "what did i do beforehand" perspective is difficult, but:
1. I had copied the original Event to a new Library on another hard disk via a Finder copy due to running out of disk space on the original drive. However, the Event functioned normally and I edited normally over an hour after this.
3. I probably moved the event before all clips had been copied from the camera memory card to the Library.
2. The problem started after I tried to apply stabilization to a clip. The stabilization never worked, and the switch in the Inspector did not stay on
1. I had copied the original Event to a new Library on another hard disk via a Finder copy due to running out of disk space on the original drive. However, the Event functioned normally and I edited normally over an hour after this.
YOu went inside the library bundle and did this? You can't do that. It's ruined the library database. Moving events between libraries has to be inside the application.
I ended up having to contact final cut services directly to have them help since no one else seemed to have an answer. They suggested that the problem was due to my external hard drive not being formatted to Mac extended Journal. It was on MOS Fat. So after I pulled everything off, reformatted it and then started all over the problem seemed to be resolved...no more black clips. However, it didn't prevent FCPX from crashing my computer several times. Small steps. If anyone has a solution to that or know what the problem might be I'd love to know.
I try to never dig inside the bundles. As you point out, it's a bad idea.
I recall either copying the Library over to the new disk (via finder copy), and then opening it in FCP, or
I made a new Library (on the new disk) in FCP, and copied the event inside FCP.
Either way, the clips were all the time the "edit while ingesting" camera clips, which probably screwed something up when the Library/event moved to another disk.
Rabbe
Video clips turned black
