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Phantom Video on Track 2
This is a weird problem. I’m doing a two-camera edit on an informational self-defense video. I sync up the video on track 1 and 2 and then cut away.
Well twice now I’ve come back to my computer the next morning and there is some timeline weirdness. There are spots where there is no video clip on track 2, but there is unsynced video acting like it’s on video track 2. Also, there is a little blue bar showing that that section of the timeline has had rendering done when no rendering is necessary for the video that is on video 1. (Video 2 has had some color correction done to it and thus needs rendering) The duration of the rendered section equals the duration that the phantom video appears on screen.
What’s going on here?
Jason
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3 Replies
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I’ve seen this before with audio files. Somehow FCP holds on to render files and doesn’t want to let go. The way to trick it is to disable then reenable the clip below the blue bar. The keyboard shortcut to do this is control-b. ANother way is to use the render manager in the tools menu and delete the render files and that should get rid of it as well.
Let us know how this goes.
Jeremy
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Thanks for the response. I found another work around besides the two you suggested. I loaded a random video clip into the viewer. I then looked for all of the problem spots and put the random clip on v2 where the render files were sticking and then deleted the random clip. This fixed the problem.
I’m curious why this problem happened in the first place, though. Is this a bug? A preference problem? A configuration problem? It seems noteworthy that the phantom clips were completely unrelated to the video they were near. There was no reason for those clips to be there in the first place.
Jason
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[Jason McCaffrey] “I’m curious why this problem happened in the first place, though. Is this a bug? A preference problem? A configuration problem?”
It appears to be a bug. It is pretty common.
Your workaround is what I do when this crops up (but I use the slug instead of a “random video clip”). Doesn’t matter what you use if you just immediately delete it.
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