[Sal Sainvil jr]

ok, is it also an early 2008 iMac?

[Sal Sainvil jr]

That makes since actually. I hadn’t thought of that.
yes the current set of vids that i’m editing are on an external Biggest S2S drive, which is plugged into another computer, which I am accessing through our network, while copying a large file off of my desktop onto yet another computer.
that may be it right there, lol.

[Sal Sainvil jr]

Hi there,

If FCPX could open files from previous versions as far back as FCP6 without any issues then i would say get that regardless of its strangeness. But, from what I understand it cant (i could be wrong feel free to correct me if I am). So to access a FCP6 file, you have to get your hands on a copy of FCP 7 and open the file with that and then export it as XML which can then be imported into FCPX but only the cut video comes through so you’d have to then re-finalize what you had already finalized in FCP6? is that right folks? thats what i had learned while googling when i came across this same problem earlier this year( my info may most likely be out dated since last i researched this which was in the summer. so take it with a grain of salt).

we have 5 machines running FCP 6.0.6 on Snow leopard. When We added a 6th, we ran into this same compatibility issue. Cant install FCP6 and cant even copy it over. needless tos ay we havent upgraded anything. We have literally thousands of FCP6 files that all we have to do is open reconnect data and export. Why on earth would we want to buy any product that will force us to recreate all these files. makes no sense.

We are transitioning to Adobe Premiere however, not because its better per say or any and all of the reasons given, but simply because we are tired of Apple’s constant blocking of previous versions/products to force you to spend thousands of dollars on their “new” products every other year. we dont subscribe to the “buy our New APple product now in Blue! its the New RED!” mentality. It’s so aggravating.

We could go either way with this, as in FCPX or PP5.5 but seeing as how neither seems to resolves the problem of being able to open FPC6 files without some freaking time consuming backars workaround, the deciding factor becomes which company is less aggravating and that would be Adobe.

my two cents.

[Sal Sainvil jr]

8 months “mentoring” translate to feeding them a check ever week for two months so they can stop by and say ..yeah that works.. Nah that doesn’t work..
Doesn’t every community college have TV production as a class in their media department? lol

[Sal Sainvil jr]