loosing content of connected clips and secondary storylines

[Jeremy Garchow]

What did you do right before that? Can you recreate this problem?

[Georg Schmitt]

I don’t really know, I discover it when I start new.

[Dave Jenkins]

One thing I do is deselect everything before I make changes. Command Shift A
Even in legacy FCP I would mistakenly have items selected and they would get deleted.

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Mac Pro 3.5MHz 6-Core Late 2013
FCP X

[James Ewart]

Completely unhelpful for you but curious about the little yellow markers bottom corner of clips?

Never seen them this end.

[Georg Schmitt]

Oh these are not markers but connections of audio, that is outside the screenshot.

[Charlie Austin]

Make sure you are selecting the secondary clip “container” (not the clip in the secondary) when you move them. If only the clip is selected, the container will stay put and the clip will move (or sometimes disappear, which I think is a bug especially with audio only secondaries…)

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[James Ewart]

It’s such a odd problem. At first I thought your lips might just be disabled but clearly not. Or gone offline through not allowing the import render to complete but again not the case. I don’t think I’ve seen this anywhere before.

You’ve trashed the preferences and all that presumably?

Maybe a clean install of the software?

Regards

James

[Georg Schmitt]

My life might wish my lips would be disabled sometimes;-)))

Thanks for reminding me to trash the prefs!
Haven’t done it in a while – as I was thinking it is a user error.
I will do so.

For now I make compound clips wherever I have a secondary storyline!

Thanks everybody!

[Jeff Bemiss]

I’ve had this problem too. In my case, it’s not that media is offline, because I get no flags and the clip I know should be there is still safely in my library.

The two things that make me suspect a bug are 1) as the original poster said, transitions remain inside these secondary storylines, which remain connected where they should be, but the clips are gone, and 2) I’ve had this happen to ALL of my secondary storylines at once, both the above video and the below audio.

I’ve never had it happen more than once per job, and I have noticed that when it does happen, it’s when I am launching FCPX for a new work session. I saw a poster on the Apple discussion forum complaining of the same problem who said it happened when he was duplicating projects and importing XMLs.

[Jerome Raim]

A few editors I know have had this happen to them as well. Because it occurs out of the blue without the user being aware of it, it’s pretty much impossible to troubleshoot why/how/when it’s happening.

Maybe it’s because I have the Command+Shift+A reflex, but it’s yet to happen to me. It’s either a bug, or the user is somehow managing to select clips contained within secondary storylines… weird!

Sorry my response isn’t useful, but it’s good to know others are having the same issue.

Jerome Raim
Post-Production
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