Clips coming over as black on timeline

Hi,

Not sure what's happened here but one minute everything with my project was fine but now when I playback my project, some of the clips on the timeline are showing as solid black, but with the audio intact.

I don't remember pressing anything that may have 'hidden' the footage. When I scrub the particular clip it shows up in the preview window but when I play with project with the playhead, the clip, and a few others on the timeline, are just black.

Please help!! :)

Thanks in advance

Matt

I saw this weird deal also Matt.

I thought it was a bug. Never saw it before the last update.

I think I toggled between enable by selecting the black clip and hitting the v key and got it to come back.

I have not been able to repeat it to narrow it down.

Sorry Matt, I didn't explain that well.

What I meant to say was, I'm not really certain it's "not" a bug. I'm not really sure what it is. I would need to see it happen again.

Hi, I thought I'd paste an image of the problem if this helps. As I say, shows up fine with scrubber just not when playing!!

Hi (thanks)

I've opened in timeline and it's showing as audio and video clip OK.

Weirdly, it's now happening on about 80% of my clips - some of them compound clips but all of them on the main timeline. Do you think it may be preferences?

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for all your assistance - I've checked the clip in timeline and inspector and it is showing as video and narrative. However (cue trumpets) I did just trash my preferences using Preference Manager, re-opened and it has solved the problem!! It had automatically overlaid my bed-track over the timeline footage, really not sure why or how, so I moved the audio down to another 'track' and my clip is now playing as before.

So, not sure if it was just a preferences thing or a deeper issue but hopefully for now it's all sorted!!??

For info, I'm using H.264 footage off an EOS DSLR.

Thanks again for your help! :)

Ah well, we live and learn ;0) Cheers again, Matt

Hi Richard, Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check that out.

No, I brought in the video (which had previously been synced) first. Then I ran my bedtrack underneath. Could it be the synced footage that may have caused a glitch?

Hi, synchronised through FCP X - my DSLR footage and Zoom audio.

No, it was original footage off my EOS 550D and audio off my Zoom and then I synced using FCPX sync capability. Thanks.

Hi Jeremy, apologies about the delayed response, been offline!! The footage wasn't synced, it came in straight off the card and then I synced it with my Zoom captured audio using FCP X's sync option. Thanks.

Hi Elias,

Off memory, I think I cleaned out my permissions, restarted and it was all OK again - a glitch!!

Good luck

Matt