Help with missing files on export

[Elusien]

See Dan’s response to a similar post here:

MLT Files Are Getting Corrupted & Says Files Are Missing When They Are Not

I made a change so that “blank” and “<tractor>” do not appear as missing files or block export. That does not fix the root cause of how these are introduced, and it does mean the root issue will be masked further in the future. I have heard people report about this in missing files or the related “INVALID” in video output for years here and on social media. “INVALID” may appear due to an invalid <tractor> but also for other reasons. It seems for the “blank” issue I have manually fixed for people…