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Problem With Different Versions of FCP
Hi All,
I’m a newbie not only to the forum, but also to FCP and even more so to using a Mac!
I have a Mac running OSX 10.5.8 which is a static computer and a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6. The static machine has FCP 6.0.6 and the MacBook has 6.0.1. I use the static machine to do the actual editing, but because a lot of the footage we capture is done overseas, the MacBook pro travels and footage is captured there.
The problem I have is I have just recorded a voiceover on the MacBook and saved it to a scratchdisc. When I try and open the project containing the voiceover on FCP 6.0.6 on the static machine, I get a message saying:
‘The file format of this project is from an earlier version. Would you like to update this project file?’
If I click ‘No’, then it won’t open the project. If I click ‘Yes’, the project opens, but the 4 voiceovers I’ve recorded go offline and I get a dialogue box saying ‘Some files went offline’. I have the option to reconnect, but this doesn’t do anything. If I continue, the files are visible but not useable.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be and how I solve it?
Thanks in anticipation.
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5 Replies
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[Robert McIntosh] “Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be and how I solve it?”
I think you already know the answer to this one Robert.
Clearly, it would help to update the machine running 6.0.1 to 6.0.6 just like the other one, but then that would be logical. Right?
Okay, so spill the beans, what exactly is your reason for refusing to update the MacBook Pro?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Connect both computers to the internet and run Software Update.
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[Alan Okey] “Connect both computers to the internet and run Software Update.”
But that’s so logical Alan. Jeeze, you New Englanders are so darned practical.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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David – thank you for your reply.
I can assure you there is no sinister reason why one is not updated. The person who looked after all this previously was clued up with Macs and the FCP software, whereas I have literally just taken over when he left the company. Before a couple of weeks ago, I have never used a Mac before so in all honesty have no idea why one is running one version and the other different. The Macbook pro resides in Italy (we’re a ski company) during the winter where it is used to capture and log the footage taken out there and then we use the static machine back in the UK to edit.
Anyway, after spending almost all day searching forums for an answer, I stumbled across the problem which as in fact down to where the files had been stored. I am still getting my head round using a new machine and software so I suppose schoolboy errors are expected! It turns out, the files I’d captured had actually been saved locally on the Macbook Pro internal hard-drive and not on to the external hard-drive I have been using between the two. I moved the files about and reconnected them on the static machine and voila, everything worked – only took me about 5 hours to figure out!
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[David Roth Weiss] “Jeeze, you New Englanders are so darned practical.”
Must be the cold weather. We’ve evolved to take the shortest path possible in order to avoid freezing to death…
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