FCP No Movie in File when Rendering???

Hi, I had this project I worked on before compressed and rendered and all that. I had to make some changes and now when I go to Render it says "no movie in file" I tried to reset the render and start fresh and still it wont render. I cant seem to figure it out and Google hasnt been much help either. Any solutions??

Try trashing all the renders for that small section and starting over. To do that highlight the clips in question, press CONTROL-B, then CONTROL-B again (that deactiveates then activates clips). This will disassociate the clips with the render files. Render again.
If it still doesn't work, might be a corrupt clip:
http://lfhd.blogspot.com/2009/02/adventures-in-finding-corrupt-clip.html
Shane

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