Help! Need Final Cut Pro 4.0!

[Bbalser]

Once opened in 5.1, the project has been updated and won’t open in 4.0 any longer. There are XML work arounds, but they’ll take at least as much time as re-rendering.

Lesson is, never update mid-project. I’d recommend just finishing in 5.1, as any work going back to 4.0 will take even longer.

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[Eric Bradley]

Thanks for your response. Does it matter that it is 5.0 instead of 5.1 which I originally wrote? Also, he didn’t open the entire project, only parts, and when doing so chose to preserve the original (or something like that)?

[Bbalser]

You can’t open “parts” of an FCP Project. Do you mean the Production is broken up into different FCP Project files? It’s the FCP Project file as a whole that gets updated. 5.0, 5.1, doesn’t matter if you’re coming from a 4.x version. Once opened, you have to jump through all sorts of XML export and import hoops to go back. In my experience, its not worth it, just finish up in 5. Re-rendering, let it run overnight to render everything. That’s the only thing you really have to do is re-render. And to me, that’s the least work of a project. Unless there are other details I’m not aware of. It would be nice to jump back, but in my experience, again, it takes WAY more time to go back, than to just re-render and move forward.

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