After importing movie, audio working but clips just black

I had to erase my laptop and do a clean install, so did a Time Machine backup of everything to a Seagate drive.

I moved my Final Cut Pro X app and documents back onto my laptop after and imported all my clips/projects/events I'd been working on in Final Cut but every single video clip appears black (both in the events and projects) although the audio clips work fine?

Also, rather than having a preview of each clip on the lower part of the window, they are blue with a darker blue sort of tag shape on.

Does this mean they are broken somehow?

Is there anyway to fix them so I can view them like beforeand carry on with the editing?

This film means a lot to me 😟

Thanks!

(I've attached a screen shot of what the Final Cut Window looks like with my movie open. Hope this helps.)

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Aug 26, 2016 4:54 AM

20 replies

Tom Wolsky

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Aug 26, 2016 11:25 AM in response to clazfinalcut

You're looking for Original Media. Inside an event. The Library you showed at the top is called something like I think "this is the latest". Inside it is an event called what looks like "amsterdam." Is that where the media is? Look inside there.

Have to say you seem to have create a huge mess here with a huge number of events. Not sure what happened, but it looks like you updated and old app version multiple times.

clazfinalcut Author

Level 1

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Aug 26, 2016 11:34 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

It's just the same, all the clips look like that

Tom Wolsky

Level 10

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Aug 26, 2016 11:39 AM in response to clazfinalcut

That's inside FCP. We're supposed to be inside the library with the application closed. Inside the library called Latest is a folder called amsterdam.

That's the event. Inside the event should be a folder called Original Media. What's inside there?

clazfinalcut Author

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Aug 26, 2016 11:49 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Russ H

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Aug 26, 2016 12:06 PM in response to clazfinalcut

Going back to your initial post, how did you restore your FCP libraries from your Time Machine backup?

Russ

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