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Black video clips - FInal cut pro 11 problem

Hello, I have a serious problem with Final cut pro 11. After updating to the new version of Final Cut Pro 11 and updating the project library, my media (which is fine) appears black on the timeline, and relinking videos doesn’t work. Reinstalling Final Cut Pro 11 or changing the folder where the videos are located doesn’t help either. The video files are stored on a disk in their usual folder, and there has never been an issue before this update. This is a big problem because the only way to fix individual clips is to select them and choose "Transcode Media." While this restores the clip and makes it work on the timeline again, it creates unnecessarily large data files. How can I fix the project if this problem ( I am using MacBook Pro M1 Max and Sequoia 15.1 update)

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Thank you for any help.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 19, 2024 09:11 AM

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stutravel

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Posted on Nov 25, 2024 10:35 PM

After many hours with Apple consultant we solved the problem, or my problem, with black clips. It's a short term solution but it worked. Click on a black clip> right click and click reveal in browser> then go to the clip in the browser and right click again> click on Transcode media and choose optimised and then it takes a little while and the clip will appear. Means doing this for each and every black clip but it works. It only affected the clips that I'd shot at 120fps. Brand new projects created in V11 don't have this problem. The problem starts when you have completed or are halfway through a project while using V10.8.1 and then updated to V 11.

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Tom Wolsky

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Nov 19, 2024 11:23 AM in response to visualdemon

Please give the complete specifications of the media.

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 19, 2024 11:24 AM in response to visualdemon

Did you try trashing your settings?

terryb

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Nov 19, 2024 11:28 AM in response to visualdemon

If you're under deadline, restore the previous version of FCP from your backups. Also, use the backup you made of the library before you opened and updated it in FCP 11.

Nov 22, 2024 04:47 AM in response to hesus4444

Same problem here. Footage from Lumix S5Xii, iMac Intel i7, Sequoia 15.1.1

mabou

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Nov 22, 2024 07:00 AM in response to ironphreik

Not seeing that problem on my Lumix S5Xii. Though my footage is 4k24p and from reports above, the problem seems most likely to occur on high frame rate clips.

Nov 23, 2024 03:16 AM in response to visualdemon

I Have same problem...

Nov 23, 2024 07:01 AM in response to Pickcodes

Camera Panasonic GH6

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 24, 2024 02:51 PM in response to stutravel

Try importing some new media into the library and see if it works. The problem seems to be confined to 10.8.1 or older libraries with high frame rate media that are updated to 11.

Nov 24, 2024 03:01 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

It does work when importet do 11.0, but our projects are in 10.8.1 and there is no way to save them so far

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 24, 2024 03:16 PM in response to hesus4444

If you have the projects in 10.8.1 you should stay there until the issue can be resolved. If you’re already in 11 you could try sending a project XML back to 10.8.1 and see if it still works there.

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 28, 2024 09:02 AM in response to danwat

Not a great solution, but if I'm not mistaken the media will work if it's optimized.

Tom Wolsky

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Dec 5, 2024 02:38 AM in response to Ed Sayers

Did you try optimizing the media?

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