Footage is invisible in FCPX

I've opened something I edited about a month ago because I need to change out the music, but now 90% of my timeline is invisible. I use the word invisible because I don't mean black, I mean the clips are actually invisible and I can see the interview clips underneath the connected b-roll footage. Everything is gone, including music, except for the interview clips I used. It's not a primary storyline vs connected clip issue because some b-roll is also on the primary storyline. All of the footage is H264 and I can't find any difference between the interview clips and the clips used as b-roll. If I reveal the clips in the event browser, they're still blank. If I then reveal them in finder, the clips are normal.


The only thing I can think of is when I originally started editing this project it was inside of a different library, and I transferred everything to another Library at some point to reduce clutter, but a simple file relinking should fix any issue that would have caused. The clips aren't read as offline, they're just invisible. I've never encountered this before.


I've tried trashing preferences, making a new user, going to a different computer, relinking all the files, etc. I'm hitting a wall with ideas now. My next attempt will be reimporting an XML of the project. Anyone ever encountered this before? This is a huge bug, and while this project isn't pressing, we sometimes work on show site and have extremely tight deadlines, so I need to know how to prevent this in the future.


I'm on a Mac Pro 2013, 32 GB RAM, Firepro 500

FCPX 10.2.3

OS X 10.11.3



Thanks,

Taylor

Mac Pro, No

Posted on May 17, 2016 9:25 AM

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May 17, 2016 9:33 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Sure,


When I say invisible, I mean just that. They aren't offline or missing, they're invisible. The clip is on the timeline and in the project, but nothing is there. You can watch the timecode move, but there's nothing.


In this image, we should be seeing clip #26, but instead we see the footage below it.

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When I reveal Clip #26 in the browser, it looks like this.


User uploaded file

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Footage is invisible in FCPX

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