iMovie Final Cut Pro Missing Clips ? In Movies Import Bug
Hi, I had a comment from a viewer of my video:" if your new to editing you probably forgot to even import it from a hard drive so just plug in your hard drive move it to desktop than continue to drop it on iMovie category with date it will reload all your work if you had a black screen hope i helped!"
Its a kind comment but sadly it misses the point, and ooh if the solution was so simple there wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of people pulling there hair out trying to find a solution, before finding mine, that works. A number of the comments lean towards inexperienced user error, but I've been using iMovie and others for over 5 years, and this still occasionally happens to me.
To make sure this isn't some fluke, here are the steps I found that reproduce the problem, and If your an experienced iMovie and FCP user I'd be interested to know if you can replicate the problem by following these guidelines. Be aware you do this of your own free will and I accept no responsibility for the Movie you create not working, and not being uploadable to Youtube.
The Experiment If You Wish to Partake In It Is As Follows
Experiment to create an import broken iMovie or FCP video that won't upload to learn how to fix the problem if it should happen at a crucial time in the future.
- Create three a 60 second video's of anything on you iPad or iPhone.
- Start iMovie or final cut pro, create a dummy video or movie event.
- Name it and set it up.
- Connect you iPhone or iPad to the Mac.
- Select import, your iPhone or iPad and select the videos you create.
- As as they all start importing after the first video has imported, disconnect the phone.
- Drag all three videos into the time line, you should still see them and play the movie.
- Now quit iMovie or FCP
- Now open iMovie or FCP and select the movie event you just created
- Your movie arrives with damaged and missing content.
- Go to import and try importing them again!
My experience is that you can't as iMovie or FCP thinks they are already imported.
It goes without saying that you can't upload this broken video, but there is no easy fix.
This may be no big deal for a short video, but for large video's and a desperate schedule its a disaster.
If you reached this point and the movie isn't broken, please message me and let me know as I'm interested how you didn't get your video trashed.
If your video is broken as described, go to the top of the page and use the fix to fix it. Once you done this once, as if it were a tutorial, you'll be better informed if it happens again.
Thanks in advance for taking part, and please share this with other Mac video creators, and editors that you know.
Thanks
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