Clips black & not playing

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Clips black & not playing

Potentially a noob question here, but bear with me.

I recently fired up FCPX after a lengthy hiatus, to go back and organize a bunch of media. In doing so I realized that substantial portions of the clips that I had previously imported are now showing up as black and without any preview. I've relinked missing files in the past but this doesn't look the same. The video was previously imported from a Nikon D7000, and as I mentioned, was definitely working and visible when I was working on it before (1+ years ago).

Here's what I'm seeing:

I've been googling without much success. Is this a potential encoding issue?

The thing that puzzled me is that other old media of mine seems to be showing up just fine!

Help?

Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 4, 2016 8:39 AM

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Answer 1

Russ H

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Jun 4, 2016 8:51 AM in response to CaptJack296

Suggest that you try a couple of things.

Select the event in the Browser and from the File menu, Delete Generated Event Files > All Render Files.

Quit and hold down the option and command keys when you relaunch. When prompted, delete the preference files. From the File menu, Open Library > Other, navigate to your library open it and see whether your thumbnails appear.

Russ

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Answer 2

CaptJack296 Author

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Jun 4, 2016 9:05 AM in response to Russ H

Hi Russ -

Thanks for the advice - just tried your instructions and they're still showing up black / no content... 😟

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James Cude

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Jun 6, 2016 1:38 PM in response to CaptJack296

Make sure you update to the latest version of FCPX 10.2.3, and repeat Russ's suggestion.

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CaptJack296 Author

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Jun 6, 2016 2:05 PM in response to James Cude

Hi James - thanks for the suggestion, though I did update FCPX already and so have been using 10.2.3 !

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Answer 5

James Cude

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Jun 6, 2016 3:00 PM in response to CaptJack296

Which camera recorded the footage? Does it work if you import one of the original clips into a new library? If not, does it work after you transcode one of the original clips to ProRes?

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