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upgrade to fcp 5
is there anyway to upload sequences from an fcp 5 to an fcp 4 program? if not, does anyone have access to a cheap/free upgrade? from 4 to 5? i am a student attempting to practice my newly acquired fcp 5 skills.
amanda
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4 Replies
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[ahuelse] “does anyone have access to a cheap/free upgrade? from 4 to 5? i am a student”
Amanda,
Apple sells an “academic” version of FCP. Its neither cheap nor free, but it is substancially less expensive than their retail version. The only free versions of the software are pirated, illegal copies, and no one on the Creative Cow promotes or assists in the use of pirated software.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
hi david,
thanks for your reply. i understand – i wasn’t looking for an illegal upgrade, and i appreciate the tip about the academic version. so there is absolutely no way to transfer fcp 5 files to an fcp 4 program, huh?
amanda
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Nope. Like a lot of apps, FCP project files are not backward compatible.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
I imagine you could export an EDL from 5 and import into 4 (never used FCP 4, will it import an XLM from ver.5?)
If you cant open the xml file in 4, you could always log the EDL and re-capture. time consuming,, but accurate and faster than starting from scratch.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC
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