[Raul Alvarez]

​My apologies for my delayed response to you both Shane and Dennis.

I appreciate very much your advice and information.

Shane, at the time of writing I had already ordered an old iMac from a very good technician in Milan who not only got me a very inexpensive one in excellent shape, but he also cleaned it up and installed the right OS and software. He’s very thorough to avoid viruses and issues.

In any case, I really appreciate and would like to take on your offer to convert the project to Adobe to take it further. I will contact you directly as you offered.

Dennis thank you so much too for your information. I already opened the project on FCP 7 and is looking fine so far.

Best wishes to you both for the season and next year.​

[Raul Alvarez]

Thanks for your response Dennis,

can you expand on this?:
“FCP 7 will open FCP 6 project files.”

Can I just Straight Forward open the FCP 6 in FCP 7?

or do I have to create XML’s?

Thanks

[Raul Alvarez]

Hi again Shane…

Resurrecting this post after 1 year an 9 months!
I need to revive a LARGE PROJECT (feature Doc) that I have on FCP 6.0.1 and I will be acquiring an old iMac to do so.
Currently I cannot open the project because I’m using a PowerBook Retina, 15 inch, late 2013 with OS Catalina 10.15.7. (**Disk pretty full, no realistic chances to partition without messing up my life big time!)

So I have three questions:
1. Which iMac would you suggest me to get and which would be the best choice of OS (in your last response you mentioned 10.5… any better that would work?)

2. Would FCP 7 open this project fine, without issues? (Editing is quite straight forward, practically no special effects, very simple graphics…)

3. Currently I’m learning and editing on Premier Pro 2020.
If I export an XML from the FCP v 6 would I be able to open it on Premier Pro, and continue working on the film? If so could you kindly offer tips and advise on doing this?

Thank you so much in advance.

[Raul Alvarez]

Thanks Mark…
Yes indeed! “Renew or Die!”… I’m gradually swallowing the “Loss”, and as with many other things in life, –and just like you wrote– simply move on and discover the new.

In 1997 I started with AVID and learnt it up to truly Love it, until 2006 when I HAD TO ($$$) switch to FCP.

Thank you so much for the tip of DaVinci Resolve. I’ll take a look at it. Yes money is the issue for not much work happening…
I had thought about going back to AVID, or trying FCPX or Premier… so DaVinci might be a good option.

LOL !!! on “Sometimes Dead is better”… ;)))

Once again Thank you for your response, and all the best for you and your work ahead!

Raúl
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[Raul Alvarez]

Hi Shane;

Thank you so much for your thorough response. I appreciate your time to explain in detail.

Be well, and all the best for you.

Raúl

[Raul Alvarez]

Thank you Shane… apologies for the delayed response… I’ll try the software.
Much appreciated.

Raúl

[Raul Alvarez]

Thank you Don for the advise… grazie mille! I’ll follow this.

All the best…

[Raul Alvarez]

Thank you Ian for the advise…
In this case what would be your suggestion? to make a conversion of the footage before editing? …or just simply render once in the sequence as I go?
It is meant to be a short 1-2 minute video spot…with probably some slo-mo efx…
Much appreciated your response… 

[Raul Alvarez]

Thank you ALL for the responses and suggestions. It has been kind of hell to meet the deadline, switching my timeline over ProRes which has eaten all my Hard Drive space available after rendering and now that I’m back at the edit, it continues crashing the same every single time I use the trim mode or even if I drag a clip within the prores timeline. The only way to “edit” if you might call it like that is to “cut” the clips and “moving” the entire sequence forward to open spaces to paste the desired clips in the desired position. It has even crashed when overwriting or inserting a new source clip from the source monitor.

Does anybody know if apple has addressed this issue in the new version 7?

Thank you all again for any hopeful solution to this!

(Thinking about going back to AVID again!!)

[Raul Alvarez]

Hi Richard;

I’m not sure if you got my previous response, but here is it again. Thank you. It is a good suggestion. I’m just installing the new 2 x 2TB and hope for the best. I’m sure it’ll be all right, but your suggestion was very god.

All the best and take care.