I’m stuck onMountain Lion and fcpx 10.0. How can I open a friend’s 10.1 Projects?

[Chris Northcross]

You might-MIGHT-be able to have your colleague export an XML from 10.1 and try pulling it in that way. Possibly you could use Xto7 to bring it into FCP 7 and then export from FCP 7 to FCPX using 7toX.

“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”

[Andy Neil]

Personally, if you don’t want to upgrade your whole computer, I’d make a partition to your drive and create a Mavericks / FCPX 10.1 bootable set up, separate from your Mountain Lion / 10.0.9 set up. This is how I’m set up currently. The key is to make sure NOT to update your FCPX projects and events when you install FCPX on the partition. Then you can create a Final Cut Libraries folder on your media drive and have a separate working 10.1 program.

Any workaround you do trying to get 10.1 into 10.0.9 will be incomplete, and a pain in the ass likely. This is the most complete and pain-free way I can think of.

Andy

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[Simon Sieverts]

Hi Chris, Hi Andy,

thanks so much for your speedy responses.
I looked into finding a workaround for importing 10.1 projects into 10.0 timeslines and it looks impossibly complicated.
My solution has been to borrow a colleague’s MacBook Pro with fcpx 10.1 to do the changes.

I am just gonna have to bite the bullet and do the upgrades, I guess!
Thaks again for your help.

kind regards,

Simon Sieverts

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