Unknown file error

Hey all!
I'm working in FCP 5 and I see NO offline media, everything looks to be in order, but when I go to export to Quicktime Conversion it pops up with an error
"error: file unknown" and I cannot export. I can make a quicktime movie no problem, however that is useless to what I actually need to export for. I have restarted both my hd, my laptop and final cut in general. I don't know what file is missing and or corrupt, it was a fresh project not pulled in from any where no updating project type or anything. I'm getting from two different seqences I have made, each sequences clip is a different tape. I went so far as too delete my capture scratch, disconnect my media and capture every thing from both tapes again.... still getting the same results... any suggestions...??? Kind of time senestive...

Are you able to render the clips all the way? I recently was given a sequence to work on that used some clips in a codec I didn't have installed. It caused some weird behaviors, including preventing me from rendering or exporting.
You could concievably dismount your media drive, launch the project, and then remount the drive and reconnect, this might help you to find the problematic clip.
If it is a corrupt render file, you could delete your renders in the finder, or with render manager to force a re-render, which might help as well.

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