Send to compressor: warning: "selection contains offline media"...

"Do you wish to continue to export?"  I've isolated multiple sections of my timeline and it still says this.  I looked the timeline over and could find no media that appeared to be offline.  I played the the timeline.  I went ahead and compressed and it took a really long time for an 8 minute show.  I have yet to look at the results.  One other person wrote in with this problem with no answer given.

I've had it, too.  Compressor and FCP X are still pretty buggy.  Report it.

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      Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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      L3 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
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