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Upgrading a huge FCP 6.05 project to FCP 7
I have been working on a documentary for a long time and currently using FCP 6.05 The project is large with about 1.5 TB of media and it contains green screen and layering. I am thinking about making a copy of the 6.05 project and opening it on a newer machine using FCP 7, and using my external 2TB raid on this new system. My question is, will this in any way change the media on the raid? Will I be able to take the raid and open up the project that I had been working on FCP6.05 on the old system. I know that I cannot open the FCP 7 project on the old system. I want to know if I can open op the previous FCP 6.05 project, or has the media been changed?
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[Mark Shepherd] “will this in any way change the media on the raid?”
NO, it will not. Project upgrades don’t affect media
[Mark Shepherd] “Will I be able to take the raid and open up the project that I had been working on FCP6.05 on the old system. “
Take the RAID and open it? what? You can open the PROJECT in the new version, but once you upgrade it, no, it is not openable in the old version. You will need to export an XML of the project to open it in the older version.
Shane
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You can go forward, but not backward. I just went through the process of going from FCS2 to FCS3 biting my nails because I was going into the finish/conform of our current major project, on deadline yet! No wonder I haven’t been sleeping well. But it was just perfect. Not a single issue with the project open in FCP7. I then felt comfortable putting FCS3 on all our systems. It’s helped in a lot of spots, nothing huge but all the small things added/changed have been good.
Now the back story is this: I’ve been carrying this project back and forth to home on an external raid. this is so I can do some work at home. This isn’t all the footage, but a copy of what’s on the Mac Pro at the office. I just made a mirror copy that I could carry around. It takes a little doing, making sure that all the folders involved are mirrored. I’ve been using Chrono Sync to do that. In that way I make a change here or there and it’s reflected on the other machine and I can work without issue. This means making sure that things like the waveform files and “render” files are matched. And ChronoSync will match up the deletions from one side to the other as well. So what I did was install FCS3 on the laptop first. Tested the show, and then installed FCS3 on the tower(s). The other interesting sidebar is the fact that the laptop has Snow Leopard running on it and the tower is still waiting for that upgrade.
It’s all good.
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