Canvas Problem: "Display Unavailable"

I am getting a "Display Unavailable" message when I bring clips to the timeline, even on cips that are just video, not psd files. The canvas is red like it is when media is offline, but instead it reads: Display Unavailable. Close and reopen to restore.
When I close and restore, it says the same thing. There are no differeces in files between the sequences that are displayed correctly, and the one that is not displayed at all.
When I scrubbed a clip, it showed in the canvas and froze; even after I kept scrubbing. I closed FCP5 and reopened it and scrubbed again; it did not display the clip again at all.
What can I do to fix this?

This happens sometimes when you import a CMYK psd file. Make sure all your graphics are RGB.
Patrick

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* @author Wiedenmann
public class RtfInputStream extends FilterReader {
/** Search string for start of the section. */
private static final String SEC_START = "{\\stylesheet";
/** Search string for end of the section. */
private static final String SEC_END = "}}";
/** Locale store for the document data. */
private final StringBuffer strBuf = new StringBuffer();
* Wrapper for the input stream used by the RTF parser. 
* Here the complete document will be loaded into a string buffer
* and the section causes the problems will be deleted. 
* 
* @param in Stream reader for the document (e.g. {@link FileReader}).
* @throws IOException in case of I/O errors during document loading.
public RtfInputStream( final Reader in ) throws IOException {
super( in );
int numchars;
final char[] tmpbuf = new char[2048];
// read the whole document into StringBuffer
do {
numchars = in.read( tmpbuf, 0, tmpbuf.length );
if ( numchars != -1 ) {
strBuf.append( tmpbuf, 0, numchars );
} while ( numchars != -1 );
// finally delete the problem making section
deleteStylesheet();
* Deletion of the prblematic section.
private void deleteStylesheet() {
// find start of the section
final int start = strBuf.indexOf( SEC_START );
if ( start == -1 ) {
// section not contained, so just return ...
return;
// find end of section
final int end = strBuf.indexOf( SEC_END, start );
// delete section
strBuf.delete( start, end + 2 );
* Read characters into a portion of an array. 
* The data given back will be provided from local StringBuffer
* which contains the whole document.
* @param buf Destination buffer.
* @param off Offset at which to start storing characters -
* <srong>NOT RECOGNIZED HERE..
* @param len Maximum number of characters to read.
* @return The number of characters read, or -1 if the end of the
* stream has been reached
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
public int read( final char[] buf, final int off, final int len ) throws IOException {
if ( strBuf.length() == 0 ) {
// if buffer is empty end of document is reached
return -1;
// fill destination array
int byteCount = 0;
for (; byteCount < len; byteCount++) {
if ( byteCount == strBuf.length() ) {
// end reached, stop filling
break;
// copy data to destination array
buf[byteCount] = strBuf.charAt( byteCount );
// delete to copied data from local store
strBuf.delete( 0, byteCount + 1 );
return byteCount;
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Integration of the warpper looks like:
RtfInputStream inDocument = new RtfInputStream( new FileReader("test.rtf"));
Document doc = rtf.createDefaultDocument();
rtf.read(inDocument, doc, 0 );
Hope this helps - for me it did :-)
Timo Wiedenmann
DaimlerChrysler TSS, Germany

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