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Please HELP!
I’ve looked around at the forum and tried what suggestions I could find (like getting FCP Rescue), but so far I’m having no luck. Here’s the situation:
I’m editing a project on a Macbook Pro and running Final Cut 6. Most of my footage is on one external drive, but I do have 2 externals plugged in.
I was editing away and opened Quicktime to take a look at an old movie file. As I was working in Quicktime, Final Cut crashed (which I believe was the first time it has ever done so for me).
I reopened Final Cut and when I tried to open the project, it reads:
“This project in unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut”
I have downloaded no updates. What has me most worried is that when I try to open any old autosave from that project, it gives me the same message. I can open other projects without issue.
This is a major loss and would cost me a month- hold on, I’m going to put that in caps- A MONTH of work. Please tell me someone out there has a solution?
I have run a Disk Utility on all three items (computer & 2 external drives) and all came out clean.
I downloaded FCP Rescue and (I think) I ran it, but to no effect.
Help!
-andy
** NOTE: It is now 20 minutes after I first posted this and I have some good news- I went through the autosave files one by one and found a little batch that would open! So now I’ve only lost a couple hours of work. PHEW! However, I’m going to leave this post up in case anyone has any idea why this happened or how I might avoid it again (and maybe even salvage those lost couple hours?).
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29 Replies
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What version of FCP?
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I have version 6.0. I haven’t done any updates. Maybe that’s the issue? Although it certainly wouldn’t explain the “outdated version” problem.
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I think this was a bug that was cleared up in FCP 6.0.4.
Found this:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1249
Jeremy
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nope. i’m running 6.0.5 on leopard 10.5.6 and this just happened to me.
i’ve been working on the same project all day. i save incrementally as i go along ( 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc. ).
i came back from a dinner break and all of the sudden i couldn’t open the last 10 or so of my project files (or their corresponding autosave files). this means my whole 10 hour day of work down the drain unless any one has any clue what else i can do.
i have trashed my prefs, repaired my permissions 5 times, tried to open the project files as a different user, my get info tab for the G-Raid that my projects are on has the ignored permissions… checkbox checked,
duplicated the project file, copied the project file to my system drive and tried to open it there w/o my G-Raid connected, and the proj files were all very well organized etc, i know what i’m doing.PLEASE HELP!!! i’ve looked all over the place and i can seem to find any solution that works for me.
thanks in advance.
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i forgot to mention that i trashed all my render files as well.
also i only added one new file to the project today. i had exported a piece of a nested sequence (using in out point in the sequence and using file>export>quicktime movie. then i re-imported it and did inserted in into my sequence and changed its speed.
i’ve noticed that every project file since i did that gives me the ” this project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of final cut ” error.
i’m stumped because as i mentioned i’ve tried opening the bad project files off my system drive w/o having my G-Raid ( which contains all the fcp files for said projects ) plugged in.
is it possible that that mov that exported and re-imported corrupted all the project files it was associated with? btw that mov file opens and plays just fine in QT.
thanks again for any ideas/suggestions any of you may have.
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That’s what did it to me! I couldn’t recall what I had been doing when Final Cut crashed on me, but I was saving a .mov file from quicktime in another format and trying to bring it into Final Cut.
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Can you make new projects?
Jeremy
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how do you mean?
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Can you open Final Cut Pro the application without opening that specific project?
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yes. i can open the program itself on its own and i can also open all other projects that were made before i exported and re-imported that mov file.
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