Backwards compatible

[John Foley]

This question has come up literally hundreds of time. The same answer as always. NO.
Project files are not backwards compatible. However, with FCP 4, we were introduced to XML.
You can output your timeline to an XML file that can be read back by another XML capable program (IE: earlier version of FCP)

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[Alan Lacey]

what? Not even from ver5 to 5.1

Alan

[Walter Biscardi]

[Alan Lacey] “what? Not even from ver5 to 5.1”

Nope, not even from v5.1.4 to 5.1.2. You cannot open any FCP project in any older version.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Walter Bienz]

Thanks for your reply.

It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.

[Steve Cohen]

I thought so as weell, but came to find ou that it is backwards compatable from 5.1.4 to 5.1.2.

Oue engineer started updating some of our systems and didn’t quite finish (and now has decided not to finish until we get 6).

I can open a project in 5.1.4 work on it, save it and then open it in 5.1.2.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Steve C] ”
I can open a project in 5.1.4 work on it, save it and then open it in 5.1.2.”

Interesting because that does not work here. We get the warning that the project was created in a newer version of FCP.

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[Steve Cohen]

If I remember correctly (I’m not at work right now). I get the warning also, but whn I open it and save the project, it will syill open in 5.1.2.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Shane Ross]

Yep, If I have a project that I created in 5.1.2 (on my G5), I can open it on my laptop (FCP 5.1.4) and not get the “this project file will be upgraded” prompt. It just opens. Then I work for a bit, save it, and that file is openable on the G5 with 5.1.2.

This is the only time I have seen this happen. I think it is because 5.1.4 was a minor fix to 5.1.3, which was a minor fix to 5.1.2.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Steve Cohen]

I’m not 100% sure, but updates should be backwards compatible, but upgrades are not.

Wikipedia=Backward compatibility is the special case of compatibility in which the new server has a direct historical ancestral relationship with the old server. If this special relationship does not exist then it not usually spoken of as “backward” compatibility but is instead just “compatible”