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Is FCP 7 backwards compatible?
Or will it take all FCP 6 projects reformat them for 7 and not allow you to go back to 6.
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Nope. But you might be able to get an XML of a sequence back to FCP6.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
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Based on previous versions, no. It will let you know that the project you are opening is from a previous version of FCP. It will ask if you want to continue. When you continue do a save as and give your project a new name. If you ever need to open that project in FCP 6, you will still be able to, granted you cloned your hard drive before upgrading.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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I have successfully exported a project…full project…from FCP 7 to FCP 6 just fine…via XML. Easy as pie…or is that cake?
PIECE OF CAKE!
Shane
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Great! Thanks.
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Version 4. Version 5 is for the current one.
Shane
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Shane, what about codecs?…Do they have to be common to both versions?..Specifically, do AJA codecs support both versions?
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AJA doesn’t do codecs. They use the Apple ones. They, like Black-Magic and Matrox, just slap their name on them so that their card will capture to them…or something like that.
Anyway, all of the current codecs will work…but none of the new ProRes codecs that come with FCP 7 will be backwards compatible….ProRes Proxy, ProRes LT, ProRes 4444…nor will the AVCIntra decoder.
Shane
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Interesting. So if I start my project at my Studio using FCP 7 and ProRes LT, export an XML and move it to another Studio that has only FCP 6. It wont work? Did I understand that correctly?
So if I know that I will transfer stuff at a later date to another studio then use a codec that is compatible to both, like ProRes HQ.
Right?
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[jack Bibbo] “Interesting. So if I start my project at my Studio using FCP 7 and ProRes LT, export an XML and move it to another Studio that has only FCP 6. It wont work?”
Nope…wait…wait wait wait. I lie. I wanted to double check so I plugged in my drive with footage imported with the various ProRes flavors and…well, QT opened them. And then I brought them into FCP 6 and…they showed up fine.
Oh, hold on, I DON’T lie. OK, so I can see them in the browser and QT, and play them..BUT…I cannot have a sequence with those settings. When I add them to the sequence I have a big RED render bar. This is apparently because QT contains the ProRes DECODER for all the ProRes flavors (I just played them on the reception iMac and they play too), but you cannot ENCODE to those formats…nor have timeline settings.
So, you can see the footage, but you cant’ work with it. You’ll have to render them to plain vanilla ProRes. So the benefit is gone.
ProRes HQ should ONLY be used for high HIGH end stuff, like RED or HDCAM SR or other HIGH end 10-bit formats. There is literally NO benefit between ProRes and HQ with HDV or DVCPRO HD or AVCHD or other 8-bit formats like HDCAM.
https://forums.creativecow.net/faq/applefinalcutpro#75
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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