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Files in Event Browser Blank
Hey all! Well I’m a rut. I was finishing up a primary correction a huge live multi cam shoot I had edited on my 4 year old mac laptop. Then out of nowhere the screen goes black. The computer is still on and plugged in mind you. I realize there is not much I can do, so I force shut down. When I get it back on, FCPX chokes on the loading screen during the “Updating ‘Said Event'” portion. I hide the event from it just so it will open. Opens fine.
Quit it. Replace event. Opens fine. Try to open the sequence, that little updating event bar rolls down and, after ten minutes of it, I know I have a serious problem. I hid the event again and was able to open the project and export a XML (I’m still hoping I might be able to use that in some way, maybe just opening it in premier or davinci).
As it is, now I have the project hidden and the event opens fine. Id’d like to use that XML to recreate the sequence again but the clips are missing. Not actually, as they do not have the “Unlinked Media” image on them. They just are blank.
In fact if I right click on them and reveal them in finder they are right there. They just dont show up. Trying to use the “Relink Files” command nothing appears in the list.
Any help would be much appreciated! I was so close to completion and now I’m stuck behind some mysterious corruption.
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Not sure of the cause, but I have a 5-yr-old MBP running FCP X and it’s barely functional with FCP X. Yet it’s fine with PProCC, Avid MC and FCP 7. FCP X demands more RAM and GPU horsepower than this machine can muster. I only use it for FCP X for very light work or as a back-up to the MacPro (currently in the shop for repairs). I found that any third-party effect that is GPU-intensive completely locks up the application.
How long are you waiting to let your Event load? Maybe it’s just a buffering issue. Have you tried switching to the list view? If so, do these clips appear when you highlight one of them?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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If you play the blank files in fcpx, can you see them?
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Hey guys! sorry for the silence.
Andy – Yes I tried the backups, bot for project and event. They work, as so far as the Event backup shows about half the clips I have (I’m assuming the backup was from before I added the other media). The project backup doesnt do anything new. I get the same “Updating event” taskbar when I click on it.
Oliver – It’s been slow going all the way through. I let the event load for about 10 minutes before I cut it off. Would you recommend letting it take it’s time? Some other post about similar stalling issues seemed to suggest that after a certain point Final Cut is just not going to open it. 10 minutes was an arbitrary limit though, and if it might open, how long would you recommend letting it twirl? I have not tried switching to list veiw, I’ll give that a go.
Jeremy – No they don’t. Oliver suggested list view might help them so I will give that a try.
Thanks for the reply guys!
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Just tried doing it in list view and they showed up! But so did the “updating event” barber pole at the top so I’m in the same place essentially. I’m going to let it keep going for a while though as, as Oliver mentioned, maybe the age of my station might mean things just take longer. I’ll let you guys know if anything comes.
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In think your thumbnails are corrupt.
Quit fcpx, find the event folder, find the render files folder within it and trash everything in it.
Relaunch fcpx.
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After an hour of waiting for the “updating” nothing changed.
Thanks Jeremy. I gave that a try. Reopened and before I got to select the timeline, it went right back into updating. I’ll let it run again for a bit just to be empirical about it, but I fear that might not be it.
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Are the media files linked or do you have hard copies in the event?
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They are linked, or at least they are not in the event themselves but in a separate folder in the same root drive as the event itself.
I should make clear my intention which is to retrieve the edited sequence where it was when the computer crashed. If I could do this in a different editing program I would be happy, but I fear (from reading other forum posts) that the multicam clips (two of them) that I used to edit the entire piece (again it was a live event) together wont translate through the XML to other editing suites.
Ive let the new, without the render information, sequence “update” for an hour and again no change.
Do you think it might be the laptop that is prohibiting it? If I moved to a bigger, more powerful station, would it correct itself? I could try tomorrow on an actual mac tower if that would be worth the effort.
Again, thanks for all the help.
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I thought it was the Event that was bad, not the Project?
You should also try trashing the Project render files and peaks data.
If that doesn’t work, with fcpx quit, you could try moving the linked files out of the Event folder in the original media folder.
Then launch fcpx. This should knock everything offline and then you can see if the event will load.
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