I go to open FCP X and iMovie opens?

It's the strangest thing. I can see the FCPx icon but when I open it, I get iMovie - every time. The widows are locked in place, I have no viewer window, it wants to add all this meta-tagging, there's no cohesive timeline, it always wants to use these events -- what the **** is an? Is there some sudo command I can use to open up FCP? Maybe if I put in the FCS3 disc and reinstall...
But in all seriousness... what the ****? Sure I can use FCP 7 for now -- it works great and I know it like the back of my hand! But I wanted a 64-bit version of FCP, not iMovie pro. Can we add a "classic mode" button in 10.1?

Hey, I had th same problem.
Here is what I did to fix it.
First, locate Final Cut Pro in the Finder
When it is selected hit return. You should now be able to enter a new name.
Now enter "iMovie" and hit return.
This solved the problem for me.
Hope this helps,
Stefan

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I have been dealing with this problem for quite a while now, and I think I have tried everything posted on these forums regarding this issue. I have been to the Quicktime, iMovie, and this FCP forum looking for the solution. Hopefully someone has a suggestion that I have missed or have not tried yet. I have a Powerbook G4 running OSX Tiger 10.4. I am running Quicktime 7.04, and FCP 4.5.
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Hi Brent:
Although it looks as if you have tried all of the 'fixes' that are normally suggested here, please read through this Apple Article to see if some obscure thing applies to you.
iMovie: Cannot see or control camera
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000
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Why doesn't FCP open a file that QT Pro and iMovie can open?

I have since mp4 (h.264) files that I created in QT Pro 7 exactly the same way. FCP can open 5 of them but gives a "general error" for the other two. QT Pro and iMovie can open and play all 7 just fine. What's the problem with FCP? I would expect it to be MORE flexible given its price. Instead I'm about to find myself using iMovie instead of it (imagine my frustration).
Any suggestions?

Dunno - are they protected files? (trailers often are)
How big are they?
H.264 is a "delivery" format and is not considered an "editable" format. iMovie is likely converting it to DV upon load, so that may be why it can use it. You could do the same before loading it into FCP.
Patrick

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I recently downloaded FCP X and now FCP 7 won't open, any ideas why?

All my projects are in FCP 7 but I am about to start usiing FCP X. Since I downloaded FCP X I am unable to open 7 from
Applications or XML Files, please help.

Hi Russ,
I've tried all 3 of the instructions from the link you sent me. So I've uninstalled FCP X and Motion 3 times and re-downloaded it 3 times and the same thing happens with FCP 7.
It boots up, right up until the part when the windows open on screen and then closes without leaving an error message.
FCP X works fine... Unfortunately I have loads of projects on 7 that I need to complete before an(almost) complete transfer to X.
Anny more ideas would be gratefully received
Regards
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Can I re-mix audio by importing iMovie Project/Events to FCP X, and mixing in a pro studio?

This needs a little backstory: I edited a promo of Select Scenes from a doc that I shot on a Canon SF105 HD, doing a quick job on iMovie for my website. I did the best I could as both an amateur mixer and using consumer software. The audio "mix" is horrific, of course, and being old school film, I need something a whole lot better. It was suggested by a pro edit studio (& friend) that I might IMPORT the iMovie Project & Events library to FCP X, and using these "mix elements", they could use their system (probably AVID or a hybrid) to do a proper mix. They would then lay back the track to the picture. They don't use FCP X, but again, with separate sound tracks, they might be able to do something of it. Am I dreaming?

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My colleague and I are working on a FCP 5 project (1080i/50) for a local artist. All goes well on this but last night, having little to do in my life, I thought I would give iMovie 6 HD a try and so imported some of the footage we captured in FCP into iMovie 6. The footage imported OK but it is slightly compressed with a black bar down the left hand side. Is this normal?
I set iMovie to 25fps (PAL) before opening a new project and selected HDV 1080i from the options presented when creating a new project.
The footage was shot in HDV mode on a Sony HVR-Z1E. Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?

I'm just trying this for you right now..
I'm importing into iMovie HD 6 some HDV (1080i/50) footage which I'd captured into FCP 5.1.
Note that FCP captures differently from iMovie HD, not using Apple's Intermediate Codec, so this footage has to be transcoded into AIC when importing into iMovie HD. It's taken about six minutes to import a 1:39 minute clip of 318MB.
The result is - as you say - a movie with a broad black bar, about one ninth of the movie's width, down the left edge.
This suggests to me - I'm going out soon, so this has to be just a quick first appraisal - an aspect ratio oddity, to do with rectangular vs square pixels, see below.
Nothing appears to have been trimmed off the left edge, so all the picture is there, but in FCP that 'widescreen' aspect shows within a 4:3 editing window, with grey bars at the top and bottom to frame it.
An HDV clip imported directly from the camera into iMovie fills my editing window in near-enough proper 16:9 ratio (..255mm x 145mm..) and an identical clip imported into FCP HD 5.1 shows up as 120mm x 67mm, i.e: also 16:9. When the same clip is imported from FCP-capture into iMovie, then it appears as 220mm x 145mm ..i.e; wrong aspect ratio.
If you look carefully at the same frozen frame in both iMHD and in FCP, you'll see that everything within the frame is slightly -w-i-d-e-r- in the FCP frame than in the imported-into-iMHD frame ..i.e; it's squeezed narrower in iMovie.
This is because QuickTime, and any other computer display process or activity uses square pixels. Television, however, and programs associated with editing images for TV, uses rectangular pixels: short and fat in NTSC land, and tall and thin in PAL land. This is so that - in comparison to a computer-screen standard such as 640x480 for 4:3 traditionally shaped screens - a PAL TV picture, which has more scan lines, and is thus 'sharper' than an American NTSC TV, fits more data across the screen, whereas the lower-quality NTSC system, with "fatter" pixels which have less height, needs more data displayed down the screen to get to the same resolution as the equivalent square pixels.
Maybe I haven't explained that too well, as I'm in a rush right now!
But the result is - as we've both seen - that the picture in square pixels on the FCP computer screen is - when importing this into iMovie HD - understood to be meant to be "thin" PAL TV pixels, and so iMovie - or the Apple Intermediate Codec - converts that into television-intended "thin" pixels on the computer screen ..hence everything's slightly narrow, and there's a blank black spacer at the left.
I haven't time at the moment to try exporting this out to a camera, or to some other device, to see if it gets "unsqueezed" during export, but I might try tonight.
Maybe Matti Haveri might have something to say if he reads this, too.
But nothing's lost; it's just displayed thinner.
[..Maybe I could import myself into FCP and then into iMovie ..I could do with being a bit thinner, too..]
"..Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?.." ..Yes. But it might have taken longer, as iMovie converts into the AIC "on-the-fly", thus slowing down imports on all but the fastest Macs.

Video much too dark in FCP compared to iMovie

NB I mistakenly asked this question in the Final Cut Pro X forum and should really have posted it here
Bit of a newcomer to this but as I have Final Cut Pro 7 thought I'd use it rather than iMovie which seems a bit primitive.
Shot a video of someone in the studio yesterday on a Nikon DSLR at 1280x720 25fps
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All ok so far
Viewed the footage in iMovie and it looks fine but what a horror in FCP7 !!!
It is so dark
So what's wrong ?
Have seen an earlier discussion which seemed to think the monitor calibration is off but how can that be ?
iMovie displays the footage fine but FCP doesn't.
Any thoughts guys ?
See the attached screen grab
As you can see: FCP Viewer on top and iMovie below
The latest reply I have received was the following from Meg the Dog and it certainly helps but is not a complete solution so I'd appreciate any further views:
In FCP-7 go to the menu Final Cut Pro > System Settings.
When the System Settings Pane opens, click on the Playback Tab.
Set Gamma Correction to Approximate:

Well iMovie seems to "read" ProRes fine as I made no additional adjustment to the image clip to view it (and after all it is an Apple codec so iMovie should be able to read it).
As I am a professional photographer my monitors are regularly profiled and I have no issues with the colour range, gamut and birghtness - indeed the iMovie output very closely matches the still shots that I did at the same time.
Of course I have no control over the monitor conditions you may be viewing it under.
Having made the adjustment that Meg the Dog suggested has indeed brought the FCP image more into line with the "correct" out put as displayed by iMovie but not all the way there - see the new image here:
You can now see that the player's hat is now visible but the gamma is still off - needs a higher gamma and possibly a little more brightness (exposure) too.
It is however workable and I will attempt to edit the footage now and if necessary tweak it to ensure a good output video.
When I compare this odd discrepancy with what I have come to expect from still photo editing programs I am a little bemused; If I make image adjustments in Lightroom, save the file, and then open in Preview/ Photoshop/ Aperture the image appears much as I expected it to (ie like the Lightroom output)
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Come on Apple - there must be a simple solution to this.

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I was trying to do similar thing with a Mac Mini and opening files from my camera (A Canon using AVCHD) was painfully slow, the MacBookPro 13 I have now opens the files "like a pro."
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Is it possible to export an IMOVIE into FINAL CUT PRO?

Well, I think I must be using a Universal version of iMovie, as I'm using iMovie HD 6 ..which, as I understand it, is a Universal version ..which means that the iMovie 'package' contains two versions of the software: one which runs under PowerPC processors, and one which runs under Intel processors. Depending on which processor(s) you have in your Mac, the appropriate version of the program runs.
I don't have an Intel Mac (..see my Macs in teeny type at the bottom of my posts..) so although I have - like everyone else - the Universal iMovie HD 6, my Macs run just the PowerPC version of iMovie, and ignore the Intel code.
As for FCP; I don't know: I'm not at my FCP Mac at the moment. I think I have version 3.5 HD ..it's not the latest Universal version, but it's 'Final Cut Studio' with all the trimmings, so it may be 3.5 or 4.5 ..I'm not sure which.
I don't think I have the Universal version of FCE HD, but - again - I can't remember which version it is.
Here's Apple's page of Technical Specs for FCP, and according to all that it ought to handle material from iMovie & FCE ..although I see that it doesn't say, any longer, "Imports iMovie projects", or whatever. But you seem to be trying to import an FCE project, not an iMovie project, into FCP, from what you've just written.
All I can say is that (a) I have no trouble doing this; (b) whether or not the program is a Universal shouldn't matter at all: same program, it's just different code to achieve the same ends; (c) you don't say how you passed the project from FCE to FCP ..I don't know if you Exported it from FCE, or if you simply tried opening the FCE project with FCP. And if you simply tried opening the project, I don't know how you carried over the FCE project from the first Mac to the second; (d) note that I didn't Export the project, pictured above, from iMovie to FCP ..that's to say, I didn't Import the project into FCP: I simply clicked on File and Open in FCP, and then clicked on the iMovie project itself. FCP opened the actual project, with all the iMovie files inside. I didn't Export it from iMovie first, and thus 'package' it in some extra way!
I don't think I can help more until (1) you say exactly how you passed the project from one program (and Mac) to the other, and (2) until I'm back at my FCP Mac in a few days' time.
However, this seems to be an FCE/FCP problem, not an iMovie/FCP problem (..from what you've just written..) so why not post a question in the FCP Discussions forum? There may be more users with experience of FCE-to-FCP there.
..But I doubt that it's an issue of whether either, or both, of the programs is, or are, Universal Binary: it may be more of a problem of HOW you're passing the material from one program to another.

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Reinstalling Mavericks requires using OS X Recovery but there's no reason to reinstall Mavericks just to update your apps.
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I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

This is a tricky one.
Open up Time Machine and go back to a date using the timeline on the right side of the window when you know the drive was working and was backing up as part of Time Machine backups.
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