• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  need urgent help!

  Posted by Philla542 on August 2, 2007 at 3:27 am

  Hi FCP gurus. I am beginning to learn FCP5 and today I worked all day on another computer with FCP6 and I put it on my hardrive. I am now trying to import that file from my hardrive into FCP5 format and it gives me an error 202 message and quits the program. Please tell me what to do. Thanks in advance.

  Phil
  Macbook 1.8 512RAM
  FCP5

  Neil Ryan replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Carpenter

  August 2, 2007 at 3:40 am

  Final Cut projects are not backwards compatible. You can open a project made in one version in a higher version, but not the other way around.

  You have 2 choices to save your work:

  1) Upgrade your 5 system to version 6 (also known as Final Cut Studio 2).

  2) Open the project in version 6 and export an EDL from there. This is a text file that explains where all the edits go. You can open that in version 5 and use it to re-create your project. Not everything will come across perfectly (transitions will be lost) but you’ll likely get something close to what you had. Hopefully the owner of the other Final Cut can help you with this, otherwise just spend some time with the manual and let it guide you.
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  Philla542

  August 2, 2007 at 4:00 am

  Thanks for the help.
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  Neil Ryan

  August 2, 2007 at 4:10 am

  [Jeff Carpenter] “2) Open the project in version 6 and export an EDL”

  Jeff,
  can he use Export XML instead?

  Neil.

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