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Missing/Empty Compound Clips in Timeline
I’ve never seen this before. A couple of days ago I finished the day editing, shut down FCP, and all was well. The next morning, I opened Final Cut and many compound clips (containing Titles) in the timeline were dark gray. The name of the CC was there, but none of the parameters or content.
The CCs were in the Browser and if I inserted them into the blank CC, they opened up and worked. Only the transform parameters for the CC were missing. Before jumping in and trying to fix all the missing CCs, I restarted everything, trashed FCP prefs, and eventually reinstalled FCP 10.7.1, but nothing changed.
Any ideas what happened? It took me a day to fix all the craziness. I’d like to avoid this happening again. Many thanks for your thoughts.
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4 Replies
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First, make sure background rendering is turned off.
Then, delete all render files.
Only then would I trash the pref files.
I’ve seen this once or twice, but many years ago.
What macOS and FCPX versions are you running?
Do you have the Chrome Browser installed?
Also, try creating a new Library, new Event, new Project. Then in the original, select all and copy. Then paste that into the new Project.
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Thanks, Ben. I didn’t make the connection between Compound Clips and render files. It clearly makes sense. The OS is 14.1.2 and FCP is 10.7.1. Chrome is installed but rarely used.
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Remove Chrome totally from your system. Here’s why.
chromeisbad.com
Also, I’d update to macOS 14.5, and you’re on the latest FCPX so that helps.
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Thanks. Never knew that. Knew Chrome was a memory hog, but not how it can slow down the machine. I mostly edit on an M2 Max with 32GB RAM and have experienced the mentioned slow downs. Chrome is now banned! Thanks again.
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