Final cut only playing some video clips back in canvas?

Im editing a video and when im playing it back only some of the clips show in the canvas, the rest are fine and the audio is playing fine also. Some of the clips that are not playing are the ones i edited to be split screen, might i have plessed something accidently?
Thanks,
Jen

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