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Open final cut pro 7 project in final cut pro 6
I just got a harddrive from a client to cut a movie. They have all the footage on the heard drive, but organized it in a Project I have FCP6, but the projects were saved on FCP7 and won’t let me open them. It says, “This project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut” Thank you in advance.
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8 Replies
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Cannot happen. Will not work.
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Damn, Nothing? Really? That blows. Thanks man!
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You could have him export an EDL adn you reimport it.
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Your client can send you an XML of their project. They should send it to you in XML version 4, version 5 will not work with FCP 6.x.
Arnie
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I think I’ll just take the hard drive to my buddies house and open it on his final cut and then just make a Quicktime and import it into my older versions project. That will work, right?
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If he has 7
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This is a common problem and is covered a lot on Creative Cow if you search.
As Arnie said you need to export an XML of the sequence from Final Cut Pro 7. There are specific types of xml which work when going to and from different versions of FCP. All searchable on Creative Cow or just Google.
(it just took me 30 seconds to find this –
Use XML version 1 for going back to Final Cut Pro 4.1
Use XML version 2 for going back to Final Cut Pro 5.0
Use XML version 3 for going back to Final Cut Pro 5.1.2
Use XML version 4 for going back to Final Cut Pro 6
Use XML version 5 for moving between Final Cut Pro 7 systems)————————
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thanks for the info–
one more question.when using XML to import the sequence, will that make the whole project work? do I need to start a new project and import the new sequence?
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