Missing Compound Clip

I created some compound clips in a project that I am currently working on. After editing another area of the project, I discovered that a few of the compound clips appear to be blank. The clips have a large compound clip symbol that I can see but nothing plays - no audio or video. The clip name appears on top of the clip in the timeline but it does not show up in the index. I'm not sure what I did to cause this. It happened before and I just hit undo until the clip came back. I didn't catch this in time to do that. Would editing the compound clip in the timeline without expanding it cause this? I really don't want to re-do all my work.

The compound in the event viewer is also blank. It is the original, unedited clip that still plays. My fault for not understanding that. Here is what the compound clip looks like in the event viewer.

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None of my projects had any missing files prior to updating to 10.1. It all went quite smoothly with the exception of one project that has three or four clips that now show up as compound clips, but they were not compound clips in the original. One is a simple scrolling title. If I open the supposed compound clip in the timeline it looks like this:
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You may soon develop a reputation for knowing something about this program, Tom.
Thanks very much. Now to research on why a project that was in the Updated Projects "folder" and then dragged to an event has disappeared entirely...but I'll post that question if I can't find the answer.

Can anyone help me...Why Can't I open a compound clips containing missing files?

I Have been using FCPX for only a short time and I have a few unfinished projects on the go. But after tidying up an reorganising my hard drives putting FCPx Projects and Events on an external drive. I find some of my projects with compound clips show this horrid warning icon for "missing files". I am want to relink the missing clips but FCPX will not allow me to open the compound clips so I could see what are the missing ones... so, can anyone help find a way to re-link or recover those missing files.

File browser? You mean the compound clip is in the project but not in the event? What version of the software are you using?
Select the compound clip and use Clip>Reference New Parent Clip. Does that work? Try relinking the project files.

Compound clips showing as missing events

I started a project on Macpro tower, then copied that project with all it's events and media to a portable hard drive to work on it with my Macbook Pro. I did not import anything into the event for this project while working on the Macbook, but I did create some compound clips. After working on the Macbook, plugged the portable drive into my Macpro tower and copied the project back to the hard drive in the Mac Pro. I performed the copy via drag and drop withinn Final Cut Pro X. I then began to work on the project. I did not re-copy the events and clips back to the Mac Pro tower, because they are all there already.
Now, I find that when I eject the portable drive from the Mac Pro tower, the compound clips show up as a missing event, even though the clips within those compound clips are in the current project. I've tried to re-link the media, but there doesn't seem to be a way to re-link the compound clip. I could just trash the new project, but I've done some work on it that I don't want to lose. Any help would be appreciated.

Scott Odgers wrote:
now I know to re-import everything back even if nothing has really changed.
I am glad you got it working. But something did change. You created compound clips in the Event Library when you added them to your project on the MBPro. When you opened the project on your tower there were no compound clips in the event library without the portable drive connected. Once you copied the new events onto the tower event library FCP was happy and all you need to do is replace the old compounds in the timeline with the new ones.

Missing clips in compound clip

I have started editing a project and have created a compound clip within the event. I have gone back to it this evening and it is saying the whole of the compound clip is 'missing clips' even though the original footage/clips are there so no relink/reimport works.
Does anyone know how I can restore this? Or has anyone experienced the sameproblem, if so is it possible to get it back to a working state?
Thanks!

Yes, you would think so. The work around is simple, but this shouldn't be happening.
The iMovie bugs site doesn't mention my issue, however I found the still image rendering issue interesting. I have hundreds of still images to incorporate into this project and those work arounds will be useful.
Thanks!
(I'd still be interested in knowing if anyone else has experienced this missing clips issue.)

Problems with missing media in compound clips in archived projects...

I archived some FCPX projects as sparse disk bundles. When I archived them, to save space, I deleted the optimized and proxy media, and only kept the original files (which are AVCHD), so that saved a lot of space. Now I find that I need to go back and edit the projects some more and make some changes. So I opened the sparse disk bundles and transcoded the media again into optimized and proxy media.
The problem I'm having is that most of the clips in these projects are compound clips. And I'm getting the red screen with the "T" and the exclamation mark in the yellow triangle. I presume that means footage is missing?
How do I solve this? Did I somehow screw up in a way that I've lost all these compound clips?
Or is FCPX maybe looking for the media that composes the compound clips in areas where it no longer is?
I should note that I made sparse disk bundles of these clips after all the editing was done. In other words, when I created the compound clips, the projects were not in these sparse disk bundles. I'm guessing that is what's causing this problem and that I just have to somehow "tell" FCPX where to find the media from the compound clips.

I am using 10.1.1 on OS X 10.9.3 Mavricks.
Here are two screenshots the first is how the timeline should look and the second is with the clips missing.

How do I share a compound clip between projects?...

Hello everyone,
I have created a 10 second intro/title graphic clip in Motion and published it to FCPX. I have added this generator sequence to a project's timeline in FCPX. I then added a lower third title set. I have edited my text (font, style, etc) of my lower third text to where I want it. I then created a compound clip of the two parts (title generator and the lower third text element).
Now that it is dialed in, I need to be able to use it as a template for a series of videos I am working on. I can't seem to find a way to save it and make it availible to drop into other project sequences. I have tried to make a favourite out of the clip, I tried to copy and paste between projects (and into a new event)... nothing works fo rme.
What am I missing?
Any help is appreciated, thank you,
Shea A.J. Comfort

Hi Andy
Thank you for the advice.
I tried your method but there definitely seems to be a fault or glitch in my software. If I highlight a number of connected clips and audio tracks the program will not copy and paste them into the newly created compound clip in my event library.
I therefore decided to do it the slow ay and copy each individual item. This worked fine until I came to the final audio track. No matter how many times I copy this track Final Cut refuses to do this. It always comes up with the previous item I copied. I have retried this and it will copy all the items except one. As you would expect I have done a fair amount of work on this track in the form of equyalisation, a comnpression filter and numerous keyframes on the level to come out with a mix that I am happy with. I cannot however move it from the original project.
I find this totally unacceptable and consider the software to be unfit for purpose as a result. Unfortunately the apple terms and conditions state that all purchases are final and I have no recourse upon them for the fact that it does not work.
I cannot see how an update will fix a problem with my software that is not universal to all users. I believe that I can reinstall it without being charged again but am hesitant to do this for fear of losing the large amount of work that I have put into the project.
My only hope now is to ring the premium rate number for customer support in the unlikely hope that it can be solved this way.
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Simon

Is it true that compound clips don't transfer when organizing, consolidating, or duplicating projects?

I've been stymied trying to duplicate projects with used media. My compound clips lose their connections much of the time. To be fair, I use compound clips that I made before 10.6 and after 10.6. Maybe that's the issue? Either way, I thinking I'm doing everything by the book -- organizing and consolidating event media, consolidationg project media, then duplicating, then organizing again just to be sure. But my compound clips connections are getting lost. I am confused about all of these organizing and consolidating choices and would love to get the dope on how to do this in a fool proof way. That is if there isn't a bug with the compound clip transferring -- which I read on FCP.CO. Thanks for any advice.

I've got a project on my Thunderbolt drive that references 3 events:
My aim is to move this project to another disk with only the used clips, including compound and multicam clips. So I click on the project and pick duplicate project with used clips and select a different drive.
(I've tried consolidating and organizing these events and projects before this step but I always get the messages that the media is all in the same location.)
When the project duplicates, I find that it still references clips on the original drive:
So I go to modify the event references and drag the event that I want to reference (in this case the one on the Macintosh HD) to the top of the list, as such:
When I click OK, however, the event on my Mac HD does not really stay at the top of the list, and my info pannel shows that the project is still referencing multiple events in multiple locations. When I reopen the modify events window, the event references are not in the order I tried to set them at in the previous step:
I can repeat this process over and over and still get random and incorrect results.
The big issue is that if I look at the event that I tried to duplicate the used media to, the compound clips are all referencing their original events still. If I disconnect the drive with those original events, I get the missing media icon in my event and my project.
If I reconnect the drive and try to organize event files or consolidate or organize project files, my compound clips still reference media from the other drives.
I believe I've tried performing nearly every sequence of consolidating, organizing, duplicating, etc that I've read about -- not just the sequence above. And I never get reliable results with compound clips.
I would love a review of the exact sequence of events I should follow to successfully archive a project on a separate drive with only used media, including compound clips. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

How to Create a Generic Compound Clip?

Sometimes, when I create a Compound Clip, a generic "compound clip" is created - i.e. it is not given the option to be named, thus does not become an Event.
Other times, seemingly doing the same thing, I am forced to give the new clip a name, which then becomes an Event. It seems hit and miss -- sometimes I am asked to name them, sometimes not.
The problem is, that in reusing elements from previous episodes, when editing the named Compound Clip, the Event is edited, and the older episodes are affected.
My question: How can I choose to create non-named, non-event Compound Clips?
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Geoff

Thanks Tom. I am not aware of doing anything different between the two results. I simply select a bunch of clips, then right-click "New Compound Clip...". Sometimes it just does it, other times I get a dialog asking me to give it a name and choose the Event folder.
Perhaps I am incorrect, but I have done this for a long time, and never noticed what I am doing differently. Today, I am unable to reproduce the 'generic' compound clip.
Sorry I can't at this stage be more precise, but I admit that I must be doing something different to get the different results. I do have clips in my project that are simply called 'Compound Clip', and they do not belong in any Event (clicking on 'Reveal in Event Browser' does nothing). This is what I prefer.
Geoff

How to break compound clip unable to relink?

I edited a video one computer. I transferred over to another computer. I relinked all of the video files using 'File' - 'Relink Project Files'. Once all of the files where relinked unfortuntley the compound clips did not relink. When I selected the compound clip where the video files are missing. I cannot break the compound clip to relink the files. 'Open in Timeline', 'double clicking on compound clip' and 'Break Apart Clip Files' does not work. It simply does not give me the option. This is unfortunate because I have to essential redue these edits on the computer I transferred my project on. There is no way around it?? This seems like a Final Cut Pro X glitch/problem. Does any one have any solution to this problem? I research this problem and found no solution! help anyone?

Hi Tom,
Problem is when I right click on the compoud clip, there was no longer an option to break clips apart !
Where does Apple locate the function to break clips apart now in 10.0.6 ?
Thanks
Tom Wolsky wrote:
Doesn't break apart work for you? What happens when you do it?

Large compound clip crashes project at every start

hey guys,
i've been working on a 90min project on my mountain lion mbp late 2011 (fcpx 10.0.5) but since a few days ago, it crashes as soon as a try to open the project.
reading from some posts here, one of my last actions before the first crash (making the "main" video a compound clip for clarity reasons) might be the cause of the constant crash at startup.
i really need to finish this project asap (2 months of work). fcpx starts and works perfect when i remove the crashing project to a new folder, but of course it's missing then in the programm.
i tried double-clicking the backup-file but that crashes fcpx, too. (the backup might be after the point when i joined the clips to one big compound clip)
any help & ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thx in advance.
scorp
p.s.: unfortunately no time-machine installed ... :-/

okay ... so here's an update ...
thx to some advice i got i let my mbp fight with the beachball for almost 13h (!!!) ... et voila ... the project was open ....
BUT (and that's a j-lo type butt) ... my 1st action was trying to convert the 90 min compound clip that seemed to cause the problem back to it's original files. it is not yet finished, so i could not just export the project (which of course would have been the "safe way").
now guess what ... simply by trying to select (= highlight) the big compound clip to achieve this, i GET THE BEACHBALL AGAIN !!! ... :-/
the activity monitor says my cpu is runnin' at 100% on fcpx and the memory at 3,43 gb ...
task manager says "fcpx doesn't react" and the beachball keeps rollin' and rollin' (4 about 20 min now) ...
do you guys think it'll recover if i keep runnin' it like that overnight again or is there another way of converting the compound clip without selecting it?
thx in adavance for your input ...
p.s.: @ james cude: the project file is about 600mb ... i'm runnin' on a mbp late 2011 2,4ghz icore i7, 8gb ram

My Compound Clips won't link to the event files

Hi all,
In desperate need of assistance. FCPX has given me nothing but trouble since day 1. Recently i've had alot of trouble with my compund clips unlinking themselves from the sorce material in the same events folder. i have exhusted every avenue of trying to fix it but nothing seems to work. i've tryed re-linking and nothing seems to happen. my entire timeline is made up of compound clips so all of my project media is offline because the event compound clips are missing.
i dont understand why this is happening when the source material i made the compound clips from are sitting right there in the same event keyword collection.
i tried updateing the software to the latest FCPX but this made things worse, all the compound clips i had made in the previous version of final cut were gone. which is a bad thing becasue my entire project is made up of compound clips. so i went back to the older version and they were there luckally.
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the picture below is my folder stucture along with the event media withing them. as you can see the source material is there but the compund clips cannot detect they're there.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
I don't know what may have happened, but I can hear someone saying: "compounds are evil!".
LOL! The K in my name stands for compounds are evil
and sorry, james, we're joking while you're desperate..!
Just some 'insider' joke, 'cause I'm noticing, being a beginner myself, that compounds are mostly abused as 'track replacements'.
So, from a more serious point of view: Why compounds/what are the compounds are made of? What happens when you double-click it?

Space Designer decay cuts off on Compound Clips?

I cannot seem to get the Space Designer to properly decay on Compound Clips. The decay cuts off sharply at the end of each nested clip instead of sustaining through the gap like the stock FCP reverb effects. Am I missing something or is this a current limitation of FCPX 10.0.3?

Thanks for the response Tom. The Space Designer is applied to the compound clip. The CC contains several clips of dialogue with gaps seperating them and a gap at the end for the final decay. The Space Designer cuts off after the end of each nested clip including the last in the sequence. Interestingly the non Logic verbs, such as the AUMatrixReverb, work on the CC as expected.

Created a compound clip as external HD unplugged?

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I wanted to make an entire video black and white so I created a compound clip to see what it looked like. I created it and as it began rendering, my external HD unplugged accidentally.
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I'm running FCPX 10.0.8 on OS X 10.8.3

Never run into this so I'm doing some guessing. With FCP closed and in the Finder, look in your project folder; in the Backups folder, is there a file with a time stamp that's earlier than the time of the disconnect?
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Compound clip did not include all my footage

So I am required to create a highlight reel for a game I filmed as a part of my sports film position and was to create a compound clip first. The clip was made and I keyworded all the highlights only to find I was missing 7 out of 8 goals during the game. A look back through my footage revealed that all of the goals were indeed in the original footage, but about 4 minutes (and one goal) of footage was missing from the compound clip. I was wondering if there was anyway to add footage to a compound clip since I've already completely keyworded what was there with highlights and it would be quite a setback if I had to start over.
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They probably use third-party apps because they need to make selective backups. Disk Utility can only make a complete full-disk restore, no picking and choosing. That doesn't mean they chose the third-party apps because Disk Utility is faulty. Let's wait a while and see if anyone really has something to contribute about this issue with Disk Utility.

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