break apart for compound clip is grayed out-what causes this?

I have a short project that I created a compound clip of, which I now need to break apart, but the drop down is grayed out-how do I overcome this?

All clips originated in Apple Motion , were rendered and imported into FCPX. No audio-it's digital signage.

I've done this before without issue.

Screen shot showing the highlighted compound in your Timeline, and the menu option grayed out? I'm able to do this just fine.

What macOS and FCPX versions are you running?

Have you tried to relaunch FCPX and try it?

I'm running Sierra and FCPX 10.4.

Yes, I've relaunched the app.

Screen shot, please.

/Users/southcliff/Desktop/Screen Shot 2018-01-25 at 8.43.49 AM (2).png

Here's the screen shot.

Here's the screen shot.

Make sure it is no wider than 1200 pixels, and a JPEG format.

/Users/southcliff/Desktop/Screen Shotx.jpg

Looking at your screen shot, you have a clip in the Timeline highlighted in yellow, which is fine. But you also have a Project in the Browser highlighted in yellow at the same time. That should be impossible to do. You can't have both selected at once. Not sure what's going on there.

If you have a clip in the Timeline highlighted in yellow, anything previously selected in the Browser should be highlighted in white.

Thus, if you have an element in the Browser highlighted in yellow, anything selected in the Timeline should be highlighted in white.

It is acting like you have a Project selected in the Browser, which will grey out that option.

none of your clips in the Event Browser, and esp. the one in the timeline area indicated as 'compounds':



… looks to me like a 'solid' single clip = nothing to break apart....

for comparison, from the Manual:




??

Karsten Schlüter wrote: none of your clips in the Event Browser, and esp. the one in the timeline area indicated as 'compounds':

… looks to me like a 'solid' single clip = nothing to break apart....

for comparison, from the Manual:

??

Karsten - the name of the clip you are pointing at with the red arrow is what you get when you use the Open Clip menu item. I don't ever use Open Clip but I have seen others use it improperly and that may be the root of this issue.

anickt wrote: … is what you get when you use the Open Clip menu item. …

hmmm… for sure you're right about opening a compound in its own timeline …
but …
none of the other clips in the OPs browser has a CC-indicator.
And, when you open a clip in its own timeline, you instantly get a 'go back'-button in the status bar:



… no such thing in the OPs screenshot.

standing by my point: no compounds = no break apart.
(assuming re-imported, edited projects …?)

I'm with Karsten on this. Couple of things are wrong with that screenshot.