Export trouble with FCPX - missing clips

Puzzled by problems exporting from FCPX.   Video of a couple of clips disappear, and only shows black.   Audio is OK, tho.
It's 4:30 in length. Most clips are on main storyline, except for a few cut-aways.   Not doing anything special, except for a couple of dissolves.   Format is ProRes 422 HQ.   Tried export same as project and export to h.264. Re-started app and machine.   Looks to effect the same two clips every time. I don't have Compressor 4, yet.
There's not many options that I know to change.
I realized this is a big problem since there's no way out of FCPX, in terms of video or EDL.
Ideas?

I've had this issue weekly with a show I produce. It bugs me for hours. In my case, I have to wait until the entire timeline is rendered, and then I have to export it to ProRes 422. Any other codec requires a re-render, which provokes the problem again. The problem starts when I take a few clips from my P2 and use the stability function along with any color correction topping them off with titles. It seems as though part of the rendering process involves re-analyzing the entire clip during rendering, and if I don't allow it to completely render the clips, I get missing video with graphics on top. I have a 12-core machine with 16GB RAM, and yet it still takes about two hours to render my 30 minute show after I'm done. This doesn't include the hours it takes to analyze the P2 clips as I import them, which also hinders me during editing and causes continual crashes. I'm hoping this new update I'm about to run addresses some of those issues.

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