[Kishan Shrikanth]

Dear Thomas and All,

I am a professional editor and work on Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 (currently)
I use Final Cut since I was 7 years old and currently I am 16.
I am editing a feature film shot on 16mm film in Final Cut.
I had the entire film on a single timeline and recently a few days back experienced a problem, which you have mentioned as well. When I hit Shift + F on a clip, it asks to create a master clip and says that the master clip is missing.
This freaked me out a lot as I was used to this feature and it was a big pain.

Solution: What you can really do is, create a New Project and copy all the bins (copy only those you frequently use, otherwise, don’t copy them into the New Untitled Project but into another one and save it as ‘unused sequences and media’ this will make your Final Cut run faster) and after you’re done, copy the sequence you are working on separately into the New Project and then, close the old Project and all other projects. With just the newly created project open, now open your sequence(s) and voila! There you go! It works!! Wondering how! Don’t! Go ahead and enjoy your work!

System Specs:
Apple Mac Pro
2×2.93gHz 6-core (westmere) (12 cores)
32gb RAM
2gb Graphic Memory