Issues opening projects in FCP 7

I am having issues opening up my project in FCP 7...when I go to open a project, only the browser window opens and I can't seem to open the timeline and canvas...when I go to the Window tab, Canvas and Timeline are not highlighted as options for me, how do I get those windows open?
Also, I imported .MOV movie files into Final Cut that opened up in my viewer window and played fine on my timeline the other day, now I get a "General Error" "Not enough memory" warning that comes up when I try to open, is there a reason for this and a way around it?
Thanks!

Unless you are planning to output the timeline to tape, you can turn off the dropped frame warning. It is not a problem if the canvas is dropping frames while you edit as it is only a reference display of the timeline.
In Final Cut Pro, go to the menu Final Cut Pro > User Preferences and on the General Tab, make sure Report Dropped Frames during playback is UNCHECKED:
RavenF wrote:
but when I go to the "RT" drop down menu, the only option I see is: Play Base Layer Only. The other options that are normally there are not coming up.
What are your sequence settings? Click anywhere on the timeline and type Command + 0 {zero} to see your sequence settings. Either report those settings, or take a screen shot of the sequence settings and post that here.
Are you attempting to edit to a timeline set to an H.264 codec?
MtD

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Thanks.
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Welcome to the family. I don't think many of us have ever used iMovie so your post might be more quickly answered in that forum.
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