Media offline even though it's there!

Hi all,
I have a bit of a problem. I started a project on my MacBook Pro retina. All media files were saved to an external g-raid thunderbolt drive. I have a muticam clip with two camera angles in it that run for about and hour and half. When I imported the media, I allowed final cut to copy the media to the final cut events folder on the external drive. The media was also been transcoded when I made the multicam.
Now everything works ok on my MacBoook Pro, but when I connect the drive to my 27" iMac, one of the angles in my multicam clip will not display viewer as I play the project. See the picture below. I opened up the multicam and final cut can see both angels fine (see the second picture)! When I right click on the angle and choose reveal in finder, I am shown the correct file in the transcoded media/high quality media folder. It is also present in the original media. I have tried relinking the file, but that hasn't helped. The crazy thing is, in the event browswer, I can skim through the indiviual clip and it works fine so I know FCP can see the clip. I can also drag this one clip into the timeline and that works fine as well. But when trying to view it in the multicam, it will not play or export, yet the timeline shows the contents of the clilp in the thumbnail view. Also, when I play the clip in the timeline with multicam angles shown, I can see the clip playing in the correct angle (the one selected in the picture below - angle 2)  I also notice when playing the multicam clip in the timeline it will play the audio from the angle that is missing, just not the video.
Now when I connect the HDD back to my MacBook Pro everything is fine!
As a last resort I deleted all render files, trashed my FCP prefrences and double checked the preferences were the same as my MacBook pro but this has not helped. I would start over again, but this is an hour and half presentation and it will take a long time to redo all the cuts and setup all the effects. I made a backup of this project to another USB HDD from the MacBook pro and when I connect it to the iMac I get the same problem.
Is there anything I can do to get it to recognize the media and will I have to start all over again?
Thanks for your help,
Adrian
Note: So you are not confused with the picture below, I have two of the same muticam clips, one above the other, for the purpose of getting a good key on different parts of the picture. Both of them have the same problem.
View of missing media yet it plays in the small angle viewer and the thumbnail in the timeline shows it appears to be there!
Inside the multicam clip. All looks normal. Plays back fine for both angles!

I finally figured out my problem. It was a missing plugin that I had installed on the MacBook pro that was not on my iMac. Once I installed that, everything works ok. It's a shame FCP does not alert you to this. It would sure make things a lot easier.
Adrian

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