Is FCP 7 backwards compatible?

[Pierre luc Jutras gouin]

I know it’s been a year since that thread died but for future references here is the answer to the xml template error.

In fcp7 you need to export your xml using the version 4 format. If you use the version 5 format you will get the template error when you’ll try to import it in fcp6. That’s because fcp6 doesn’t support xml format version 5.

[Madison Premo]

I know this thread is old but seems the problem is super easy to fix.

Yes, output from FCP7 with XML4 – I had my client complain that when he opened it in FCP6 it was all offline. I simply performed ‘Reconnect Media’ and it all lined back up beautifully!

And for the record, this is the ONLY website that got me to the right answer.

[Christian Castillo]

Awesome, this thread has been quite helpful. I’m going to be using a system with FCP 7 tomorrow, but then going back on a FCP 6 system the rest of the week, so I’ll export an XML from FCP 7 using version 4 and hopefully I should be good! Thanks everybody!