Help - Problems exporting my first project - missing clips

Hi all,
I've been a sound engineer for close to 20 years and I'm just finishing my first ever video edit, a project to help my wife. Naturally our deadline is tomorrow morning....
I've got my edit done and it plays perfectly in Final Cut Pro X viewer. When I export in any format (Youtube or just as a file to Quicktime) certain clips do not appear in the exported movie, the audio is there but the video is blacked out. They are the same clips every time.
I imported most of the clips from the same camera, albeit in a few different batches. When I look at the inspector info for some clips that play and some that don't they are exactly the same Codec - H.264, Linear PCM.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks,
Ruairi

Try this (might work).
Select one of the offending clips in the storyline and hit Shift+F to find it in the browser.
Hit Cmd+C to copy it.
Create a new project (Cmd+N) and paste the clip in there.
Export the clip with it's current settings, then re-import that clip into the storyline and try your export again.
Does the clip show up?
If so, repeat as necessary.
The only other thing I can think of is to trash your preferences:
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
Andy

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