• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Accidentally saved general error in FCP and lost timeline, canvas and access to my project. What can I do?

  Posted by Yana Martsynkevych on April 28, 2015 at 8:31 pm

  Hi!

  I would really appreciate some help if someone recognizes the problem and possibly knows any solution.

  General error ( & red screen) appeared after I dragged a video file onto timeline. I had to quit and restart but happened to save first. Now when I open my project, the timeline and canvas are gone (from the menu too) and clicking on the sequence in browser just gives me general error and out of memory window. I tried to create a new sequence and drag my original sequence into it, but all I get is general error and no access to my film.

  Did I happen to delete all I’ve been working on by saving the project after general error popped up?
  Or is there any way to get it back?

  Thanx!

  /Yana

  Yana Martsynkevych replied 11 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roger Poole

  April 28, 2015 at 9:52 pm

  If you are working in FCP7 go to your autosave vault and open the last auto saved version. With luck you will lose only the last 30 mins of editing.
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  Yana Martsynkevych

  April 30, 2015 at 6:08 am

  Thank you! Autosave vault helped. Lost most recent changes, but most of the work was there.
  And yes, working with H.264 from a DSLR. Big mistake 🙂

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