• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP files Not Corrupted but “too new”

  Posted by David Hunter on November 22, 2013 at 3:27 am

  I am getting this message– “File’s format too new for this application” — when I try to open a project FCP in Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 installed on a circa 2008 MacPro laptop.

  But, as far as I know, the MacPro 8-core desktop that generated this file had the same version of Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 installed on it, too.

  ## Background:

  I bought a desktop and a laptop MacPro in 2008 and installed the same Final Cut Studio 2 of that year. I edited in Europe and Mexico and could bring projects back and forth from the laptop in Mexico to the desktop in Europe.

  In October of 2013 I backed up video projects and all of their media assets from the European MacPro. The version of Final Cut Pro always said “6.0.6” as I recall. But, since I always edited on this machine for the past couple of years I took the Final Cut Pro version as far as it could go — which seemed to end at 6.0.6.

  Now in the States I am trying to open up the same FCP folders with Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 in the MacPro laptop and am getting this “File’s format too new for this application.”

  I have researched this extensively online and I have never found a stated solution.

  To top things off, the MacPro desktop was stolen out of the office, a week after I came to the States!

  In the past the procedures I took always enabled me to transfer projects back and forth between the States on the laptop and in Europe on the desktop.

  The only difference that I was aware of is that the European desktop had a later OS-X installed than the 10.5.8 on this laptop. I keep this version on the laptop because it enables the Express card slot to transfer P2 card data.

  Does anybody have a work-around to enable these fcp files from the Desktop Final Cut Pro 6 to be read by my laptop Final Cut Pro 6.0.6.

  Obviously, from my story here, I cannot export xml files from the stolen host machine.

  Thanks for any suggestions that do not call for xml file exports.

  Thanks again.

  David Hunter replied 12 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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