HD FCP project won't open? File to new?

I captured HD footage at my school earlier. I got home to open it and an alert popped up saying "File format too new for this version". Is there a way to some how chage the file format to get it on my few month 'old' FCP?

What are the two versions you are using? It may be as simple as downloading a free software update.
If all you did was capture the video, and didn't edit anything, just import the video into a new project on your machine.

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