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opening FCP 6 project in FCE 4
I have a client who is trying to open a project I worked on and saved in FCP 6 in FCE 4. They tried opening the project in FCE and it would not open. I didn’t they would be able to, so I exported an XML out of FCP 6 but they were still not able to open it. Why wouldn’t FCE open and re-create the project from the XML?
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What format of video are you using in FCP. The reason I ask is because FCE is vary limited on the formats it will use.
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It is DVCPRO25. The project files came to me originally from FCE 4 and I opened and (re-saved as a different project) in FCP 6.0.3. My client tells me they can’t open either the project I worked on and saved in FCP 6.0.3 but also the XML export I created as a backup.
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[Charles Angelis] “DVCPRO25”
I believe that FCE is limited to DV & HDV.
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This doesn’t make sense to me. The media I am using came from FCE. I did not change the sequence settings.
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Well then its probably not DVCPRO25.
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Well then its probably not DVCPRO25.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
The Sequence is DV/DVCRPO NTSC. I don’t remember what the item properties for the clips was. Any idea why I can’t round-trip a project from FCP 6 to FCE 4, even with an XML? Is it that FCE does not have XML import abilities?
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[Charles Angelis] “Is it that FCE does not have XML import abilities?”
No clue if they do, but be sure to save it off as an early XML format. FCP 6 offers 4 levels of XML file save. I find that when I send XML’s to folks with FCP 5 or earlier, I need to save it off as an XML Version 1 or 2.
Might be the same with FCE.
As a rule, FCE does not work well at all with FCP projects.
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I don’t think that FCP projects are “downward” compatible to FCE. And I don’t know that FCE has any XML import or export, either.
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FCE4 does have XML import. You might try versions 1 and 2 of XML. There also might be something that was done in FCP project that FCE cannot parse in the XML file.
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