random red x appearing upon export of movie

When I export a movie I am getting some random flashing red Xs throughout the movie when I watch it (after export). These red Xs do not show up in the timeline when I am scrubbing through. These Xs seems to be the same thing as a trial watermark. The issue has arisen after I started trying out some trial plugins. I tried out Digital Anarchy Beauty Box and then uninstalled it. I tried out Fx Factory and then uninstalled it. I tried out Magic Bullet Suite and then purchased it.

I have been discussing the issue with Magic Bullet Suite support and they have been suggesting things but nothing has worked. I’m wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and if it’s possible that it’s one of the other plugins I tried is causing it. I recall that the others may have had a red X watermark over their trial too, but I don’t remember which one. Any information or suggestion is greatly appreciated.

I have tried reinstalling Magic Bullet Suite, deleted rendered event files, and reseting permissions and cleaning the registry of the system. The issue still persists. The red Xs seem to appear in slightly different points, but sometimes at the same point, and for slightly varying lengths of time.

Sounds like a watermark from a plugin that isn't registered (you're running in demo mode). What 3rd party developers plugins are you using in that Timeline, beside Magic Bullet?

I have experienced the same issue with Magic Bullet Looks in FCPX. The company I work for bought a license for Macig Bullet Looks almost two years ago and somewhere along the line when new FCPX updates came, I started to notice this issue. For me it's pretty rare, yet sort of regular. I get a flashing red X that covers probably just one frame, but usually when it happens there's several of these flashes on my timeline. I also see them when I play the video from the timeline. I get rid of these by simply rendering the clip again. However, if I move these clips around or do other changes, the red X might be there again. It's really annoying and it must be a bug on Magit Bullet Looks, since I've never even had a trial version on my computer.

Try re-rendering and see if that helps for you as well.

If you have the Red Giant Link app installed, run that to ensure you have the latest updates for the link app and the version of MBL you are running. If everything is up to date, then report that issue to Red Giant. I haven't noticed this problem under 10.2.1 of FCPX but I'll test this further.

Hi AL, yes, that does seem to be exactly what is happening!

Do you have any idea if the same problem persists in adobe premiere pro? I'm considering switching over.

I did try deleting all the rendered files, and I assumed that when it re-exports it rerenders the files fresh. But I'm newer to final cut so i don't know for sure. Could you please provide details on how to re-render appropriately.

Also, I contacted the other plugins I was nervous about and they do not use a red watermark. I've also disabled all other third party plugins. So seems the issue must be a bug with Magic Bullet.

sandstar555 wrote: Hi AL, yes, that does seem to be exactly what is happening!

Do you have any idea if the same problem persists in adobe premiere pro? I'm considering switching over.

I did try deleting all the rendered files, and I assumed that when it re-exports it rerenders the files fresh. But I'm newer to final cut so i don't know for sure. Could you please provide details on how to re-render appropriately.

I don't use Premiere so I don't know if the problem occurs with that too. On rare occasions I use MBL in After Effects and I've never seen the red x there, but that might be just because I use MBL with AE so rarely.

Deleting the render files is one pretty efficient way to force Final Cut to re-render everything. When I've had the red x, it's usually just one frame in a few clips, so re-rendering the whole timeline feels unnecessary. This is just my assumption, but I've noticed that sometimes the x appears on clips that used to be fine before I made some changes, so I guess sometimes re-rendering clips that are fine can actually cause the problem. So when I have the x on a few clips, I usually just make a minor change to the effects on those clips, some small change that isn't gonna change the look but makes FCPX render the clips again, like changing saturation from 110% to 110.1% or moving the vignette a few pixels. Not sure if that's the smartest workaround, but it's a pretty fast way to fix it.

i used to get the red X from using Twixter trial ?