FCPX won't save changes

Zim

Zim

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When I make changes on my timeline and export, the changes are not made. I even deleted the clips and added new ones. But the old clips are there after the timeline is exported. I've restarted the Mac but it just keeps making the same video over and over? A bug?
 
Is your hard drive totally full? If not, it might be time to try updating and/or uninstalling and reinstalling
 
So you see the changes in the edit/timeline but not the final exported file?

Where are you exporting the file to? (In other words, make sure the export process is not failing and you're not accidentally watching an old file that you still have open in QuickTime that the new one is supposed to be replacing in the same location.)

That's all I personally can think of as of right now. I've had some quirky bugs in FCP over the years, but never heard/saw something like that. The closest would be the above scenario where the export process failed me and I briefly didn't notice the notification and I was wondering why the file on my desktop was still the same old edit (and this only happened when I didn't delete the old file and instead chose to overwrite it because I might have been rushing or lazy).
 
Try "Delete Generated Library Files" and make sure everything is checked: "Delete Render Files" (ALL), "Optimized Media," etc. Sometimes clearing things out will fix strange render issues.

FCP is a strange bird—it will work flawlessly 95% of the time and then it will fail in the most inscrutable, frustrating way possible.
 
drboffa said:
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FCP is a strange bird—it will work flawlessly 95% of the time and then it will fail in the most inscrutable, frustrating way possible.
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I've had that experience with analyzing optical flow on a semi-regular basis. Usually probably when I change the duration or something of a clip that was already analyzed for a speed change. Sometimes the analysis won't run again even though the clip has the "analyzing optical flow" caption over it, and when I export it flags that optical flow analysis is incomplete. Restarting the program usually won't solve it. I looked online and it turns out others have had this problem. The only thing that sometimes works is to delete the analysis files folder in the library, and then if you're lucky it will do the analysis. It's maddening
 
ahalpert said:
I've had that experience with analyzing optical flow on a semi-regular basis. Usually probably when I change the duration or something of a clip that was already analyzed for a speed change. Sometimes the analysis won't run again even though the clip has the "analyzing optical flow" caption over it, and when I export it flags that optical flow analysis is incomplete. Restarting the program usually won't solve it. I looked online and it turns out others have had this problem. The only thing that sometimes works is to delete the analysis files folder in the library, and then if you're lucky it will do the analysis. It's maddening
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Yep, I've had this as well. My work used to involve OF on every single project, so it was not at all uncommon for me.
 
Try making a blade cut into the clip and then undoing it; usually it forces the analysis to restart. But agree it's an annoying bug, same with stabilization at times.
 
NorBro said:
So you see the changes in the edit/timeline but not the final exported file?

Where are you exporting the file to? (In other words, make sure the export process is not failing and you're not accidentally watching an old file that you still have open in QuickTime that the new one is supposed to be replacing in the same location.)

That's all I personally can think of as of right now. I've had some quirky bugs in FCP over the years, but never heard/saw something like that. The closest would be the above scenario where the export process failed me and I briefly didn't notice the notification and I was wondering why the file on my desktop was still the same old edit (and this only happened when I didn't delete the old file and instead chose to overwrite it because I might have been rushing or lazy).
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I have the timeline changes made and go to Share and export the files. Then when I watch the video the changes are not made. When I go to share and name the file, there is a little window where you can scroll through the video. The changes are there but once the video has processed and I watched the video it has clips I changed. Even clips I deleted. I trashed and emptied the old files just to make sure I wasn't watching or FCP was somehow remaking them over.
 
Last night I used the range selection tool and went from the beginning to the end of the 50 min timeline. I then exported and the changes were made. This started a while back and with other videos I made I would close FCP and restart the MacBook Pro. That seemed to work. This time I tried that at least three times and it worked.
 
drboffa said:
Try "Delete Generated Library Files" and make sure everything is checked: "Delete Render Files" (ALL), "Optimized Media," etc. Sometimes clearing things out will fix strange render issues.

FCP is a strange bird—it will work flawlessly 95% of the time and then it will fail in the most inscrutable, frustrating way possible.
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I was wondering about deleted files. Once I know I have this short film done I will try that. It seems like for whatever reason FCP doesn't want to remember changes.
 
NorBro said:
Try making a blade cut into the clip and then undoing it; usually it forces the analysis to restart. But agree it's an annoying bug, same with stabilization at times.
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that only works for me like 10% of the time. sometimes just restarting the program works. deleting the analysis files folder and restarting the program is the closest thing I have to a sure shot, sadly
 
what happens tho if you hypothetically had like a one hour edit with 20 different optical flows...when you delete & restart surely you'll get a notification that says something isn't finished, right? and then you have to track it down manually?
 
NorBro said:
what happens tho if you hypothetically had like a one hour edit with 20 different optical flows...when you delete & restart surely you'll get a notification that says something isn't finished, right? and then you have to track it down manually?
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I get no notifications
 
Zim said:
I was wondering about deleted files. Once I know I have this short film done I will try that. It seems like for whatever reason FCP doesn't want to remember changes.
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Deleting these files won't affect your edit or the project—it will just force FCP to make new render files. You can safely do this in an effort to see if it fixes things.
 
Zim said:
I get no notifications
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I meant like the kind of notification in post #5 when exporting...if you don't see those, turn them on in system settings (should be on by default).

But as far as your other issue, it is strange. Did you ever try to relink clips by any chance?
 
Okay I finally got it. I deleted rendered files and nothing was working, then I duplicated the project and that fixed it. Maybe that project was corrupted somehow. A couple of other things, for some reason the background rendering was off. So the entire timeline had the rendering dots, and my library management was not greet. Instead making new libraries I'd just make new projects. I had 300GB in the one library with about 10 projects. Not sure if that caused this. Now to clean it all up. Thanks for everyones input.
 
NorBro said:
what happens tho if you hypothetically had like a one hour edit with 20 different optical flows...when you delete & restart surely you'll get a notification that says something isn't finished, right? and then you have to track it down manually?
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Yeah I have to scrub through or playback through to get it to analyze every clip again. Which sucks. Luckily I rarely (like 2x a year) have projects longer than 5 min, and the ones that are usually have very little optical flow if any
 
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