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  • Final Cut Pro cannot open files in the “Final Cut Pro Project File” format.

    Posted by Dale Larsen on October 3, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    this seems a bit bizarre to me.
    especially since the project I am trying to open I just saved seconds ago from FCP 7

    am familiar with FCP not liking projects that come from a newer version but this is weird, even for apple.
    (ok, I am still bitter about apple giving us the shaft)

    any suggestions.

    I am in the middle of a big project which I can’t open.
    HELP

    Dale Larsen replied 8 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Shane Ross

    October 4, 2017 at 2:25 am

    Hmmmm…I think I recall some solution to this. Take your media drive offline, the hard drive with all the media…eject it. NOW try to open that project file. Just to see if it opens.

    Shane
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  • Dale Larsen

    October 4, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    hey,
    that worked fine yesterday then today while working it did the same thing again.
    literally won’t open a project I closed two minutes ago.

    so I closed FCP,
    nothing tried to save by the way, which in itself is odd for FCP.

    after closed I clicked on the project that would not open and it opened fine.

    this is bizarre.
    trashing preferences once I get through today.
    don’t want to jinx the project I am on.

    thanks for the advice.

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