Open FCP HD 4.5 in new FCP 7

[Bret Williams]

If I remember right they didn’t add the .fcp extension for a long time. It literally had no extension like the mac old school days.

[Lynette Gilbert]

I’m now having problems with the files – will have to rename all the files with .mov extensions. Sigh.

Also, FCP is having an issue reconnecting some of them after the extension is added. I can import them in, but it just kind of thinks and thinks while reconnecting (only with some of them.)

But that’s okay, I can reconstruct it if I need to.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Lynette Gilbert] “I’m now having problems with the files – will have to rename all the files with .mov extensions. Sigh.”

You can use Automator for this. I had to do it recently for some footage I’d captured from HDV. You use the “Rename Finder Items” action and change it to “Add Text” “After Name”, then point it to the folder holding the QT files.

Arnie
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[Lynette Gilbert]

Yes, that’s what I’ve done with other things. It’s just annoying … FCP is having a hard time reconnecting the files after I name them.