FCPX project turned red overnight. "Modified Files".

I spent three hours editing a talent show video for my school on my iMac. We used two Canon HFM41 cameras shooting in HD. I imported the clips and created a multicam clip and edited the clip with no problems. I stsrted uploading the project to YouTube before going to bed and woke up to a disaster. One of the camera angle clips and the multicam clip in the Event Browser had turned red with "Modified File". I have done this before many times successfully but not since upgrading to Mavericks. Please help me. Thank you.

OK, I do NOT mind rerendering to save a fifth of my hard drive.
Do you you have any idea why one is a fourth the size of the other?

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