Why does it say preparing clip but when I go to look it didn't clip it?

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Tyler

Is this happening only when you try to make clips in the new COD?
Or if you try to record a different game something similar happens?
Also, please tell me:
What console do you have?
And what did you tried so far to fix this, in that way I can advise you different things or how to proceed

What happens when you try and record a clip? Does an error message appear?

Have you tried doing a hard reset of your console by holding down the power button for ten seconds before releasing and pressing the power button again?

No errors. Just notification “Clip is being prepared” and no notification “Your clip is ready”. In gallery there are no clips. Yes, I have tried hard reset.

I'm not sure exactly when 4K recordings stopped working properly because I switched back to 1080P recordings for the longer clip length of 1 or 2 minutes on my Project Scorpio Xbox One X.

The 4K clips may be broken now because they might have made a change in the way that they are captured and/or prepared. Now there is a notification that the clip is being prepared which I don't remember previously (they might have just been captured originally,
this step doesn't happen for 1080P clips). The 4K preparing process may be what is broken in the newer Dashboard releases.

Unfortunately I have not yet seen an updated Dashboard release that fixes the 4K clip issue.

With regards to game clips on feeds.....when I score a good goal on FIFA I get a message pop up saying 'game clip recorded'. Does this go directly onto my friends news feed?

someone has told me that there is a way but i could never figure it out...but you can mass delete clips by going to manage my clips when looking at your clips....better than going 1 by 1 by 1 deleting clips and wasting a half a day