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Hello everyone,
For my birthday on Sunday, I recieved the latest version of Final Cut Express HD. Having used Final Cut Pro 4 on my machine before, I knew that Final Cut software can usually open the older iMovie projects. So naturally, upgrading to FCE from iMovie, I'd want to continue work on old projects in FCE. Well, all of my project files, upon opening them in FCE, return the messages: "Unable to open project file.", and either "Insufficient content for edit." or "File error: Wrong type." Now keep in mind that some return some of these messages, some return all, and some open just perfectly.
I would appreciate it very much if someone could provide me with an answer to this issue.
Thank you,
Tim Desrochers

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