Is FCP 7 backwards compatible?

[Sherril Schlesinger]

Hi,

I read the thread here that FCP 7 is backwards compatible with FCP 6 using XML to export the project from FCP 7….but when I try to open the project in FCP 6.0.6 – it opens a different project that I’ve been working on for months….and when I try to import an XML file – I get the error message: no translation templates matching the selected XML file were found. Unable to import this file.

Can anyone weigh in on these compatibility issues? I have a huge project on FCP 6 that I simply cannot compromise in ANY way with this new FCP 7 project!!!

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Shinx

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sherril Schlesinger] “Can anyone weigh in on these compatibility issues? “

File > Import > XML will get there for you. Sounds like you are trying to import the XML file as a regular file.

Jeremy

[Sherril Schlesinger]

Hi Jeremy,
Thanks – my post was from February….I figured it out and the project is almost complete 🙂
Best
Sherril

[Geoff Hug]

would an fcp 7 file be backwards compatible with fcp 5 via xml file? if so, any idea which one? thanks,

[Walter Biscardi]

[Geoff Hug] ”
would an fcp 7 file be backwards compatible with fcp 5 via xml file? if so, any idea which one? thanks,”

Probably XML version 1 or 2.

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[Sherril Schlesinger]

So sorry for the very late response…..you probably have it figured out by now! I haven’t ever tried taking a project from FCP 7 to 5, but I’d imagine an earlier version of XML may work….try 1 and 2 and see which one opens in FCP 7.

Sherril

[Jeremy Harmsen]

Hm.. the forum stops at a terrible place. I am in the same boat, and trying to edit a huge FCP project on an overheating macbook is very stressful. I have access to a mac pro today but it only uses FPC version 5. When I try the XML workflow to import a FCP 7 into FCP 5 it asks me for a “translation document file.” Help?

[Jeremy Garchow]

File > Import > XML. You can’t just drag it in to the browser or import like a regular video file. You must use the XML import menu.

[Shane Ross]

[Jeremy Harmsen] “When I try the XML workflow to import a FCP 7 into FCP 5 it asks me for a “translation document file.” Help?”

You need to go FILE>IMPORT>XML. Then locate the XML. Not just FILE>IMPORT.

Shane

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[Sherril Schlesinger]

…and make sure you are using the right version of XML…it would be an earlier version for FCP 5.