Opening FCP 6 project in FCP 5

I'm pretty sure you can't do this, but is there any way of opening an FCP 6 project in FCP 5?

Use version 2 for FCP5.0, and version 3 for 5.1.
An oh-so-minor (but at the same time, huge) correction: FCP XML Version 3 is for FCP 5.1.2 to 5.1.4.
In a recent project we had to share material with another editor who had other editing software - something called Avid, I think - on his system so he hadn't moved past 10.4.6 and FCP 5.1.0. (and so we gave him XML version 2 files, V3's didn't work)

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I have a MacBook Pro , Model Identifier MacBook Pro8,2 , MAC OX S 10.7.4 I noticed that if I open Final Cut Projects created on other/older models MacBook Pro Laptops or MacPro Desktops, the fonts used in the previously created FCP projects, change their

I have a MacBook Pro , Model Identifier MacBook Pro8,2 , MAC OX S 10.7.4
I noticed that if I open Final Cut Projects created on other/older models MacBook Pro Laptops or MacPro Desktops, the fonts used in the previously created FCP projects, change their font spacing! which distorts the look of the Text that was written, by oevrlapping on other things that were put & present on the screen.. Another similar probelm is that the Vector shaped used for example to highlight certain words or shapes, also change their position on the screen so that they no longer highlight exact things that we once used these vectors to highlight or outline... Anyone knows how to solve this problem please?? I made sure that the same fonts are available in the Library in both old and newer computers...
thanks in advance..

You might want to take your question to the FCP forum - if you copied all fonts to your Library>Fonts folder and restarted they should be recognized by all applications. I know that this works for Adobe products, anyway.
Clinton

Newbie Question: Why can't I open my iMovie project in FCP?

Hello all--
I'm sure some variation of this question has been posted a bajillion times but I can't seem to find the answer. At this point I feel like a damsel in distress. Rescue me?
I've been working with iMovie for about two years now and I've recently been learning Final Cut Pro to up the ante on my videos. However, when I tried to import an iMovie project into FCP yesterday, it didn't quite work. Let me explain what I did and what happened:
1) I exported my (edited but previously unpublished) iMovie project by clicking Share>Export Final Cut XML
2) I opened FCP and clicked File>Import>XML and then selected the XML, leaving all the boxes checked
3) FCP imported the project as a sequence; however, the entire sequence reads "Media Offline" in the Canvas.
4) I clicked File>Reconnect Media and the list of offline files is overwhelming. I tried my luck by clicking "locate" and going to my imovie folders to find the clips, but even when the browser allowed me to select a clip, when I double clicked it, nothing in the sequence changed - it's all still "offline."
I really don't know much about media management, I'll admit - I'm wondering if maybe iMovie saves edited clips in a folder other than the events or originals folder - maybe the edited clips become "temporary items"? I know I have a ridiculous amount of imovie cache and temporary items and I never touch them because there are just so many of them and I don't want to mess anything up. But could the files that FCP claims to be "offline" in fact be located in these "temporary" folders? I mean, I've looked everywhere else on my hard drive and nothing is working! Sorry, I am probably just confusing myself MORE (and you), but maybe SOMEONE will know what in the world I should do
Thanks in advance.

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.
My suggestion is to forget trying to move the project. Rebuild it in FCP. The exercise will teach you much more about your new software than fighting XML.
If you don't feel like doing that, try a smaller iMovie project, something with only two or three clips and one dissolve.
The larger issue is probably how iMovie stores its captured media which is completely different from how FCP does it. And the format is different. FCP does not, IIRC, view iMovie's default dvstream codec. You will want to export your movie clips as DV.
bogiesan
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FCP crashes, and opening and saving projects take too much time

Since my upgrade to FCP 5.0.4 I’m having trouble on several aspects of FCP.
I am using an Xserve raid storage, connected via fiberchannel to an Xserve with 10.4.4.
The editing computers are connected via fiberchannel and Xsan to the central storage.
FCP runs on an Apple G5, and my projects run from an external disk described as above. Al the other FCP scratch disk settings are also set on the external disks.
Example:
I’m using the FCP 5.0.4 with the multi-clip mode, and one of the consequences is, that my projects become relatively large. The larger they become, the longer it takes to open (up to 10 minutes) it and to save it (up to 2 minutes). Together with these problems, FCP crashes a lot.
I set my “auto-save” at an interval of 15 minutes, to prevent to loose a lot of work, but when it takes 2 minutes to “auto-save” each time, I loose a lot of time.
So when my project was 224 MB, I made a copy of my project, and opened it from a local drive. Opening the project took also 10 minutes. But when it was open, “saving” the project took only 15 seconds, instead of 2 minutes. The “auto-save” was still on the external scratch disk. “Auto-saving” still took 2 minutes. So I set the “auto-save” on a local scratch disk, and after that, it took only 15 seconds. Opening the project still took 10 minutes. And the FCP didn’t crash frequently.
My conclusion would be that the problems have something to do with the size of the project in combination with the connection with the external scratch disks. Is this correct? If yes, how do I solve this.
And if not, what else could it be?
Out of memory
Another problem occurred when my project was 327 MB. I had a multi-clip sequence of 100 minutes, with 4 camera angles and a lot of cuts and effects in it. When I tried to “nest” the sequence, it didn’t work and got the message: “out of memory” . Then FCP crashed.
When I opened the project again (it took 10 minutes), I could not save it anymore: ”out of memory”. So now I cannot work with this project anymore.
How do I solve this?
Is my project or sequence too big?
Another crash example
FCP crashed sometimes, when I switch my “Ëxternal Video” setting from “Blackmagic 8 bit” to “Firewire PAL”. Could this have something to do with it the problems I previously described?
Can anyone help me with these problems?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I've run into a simliar problem and I believe I traced the issue down to the number of files on the drive. A drive I was using had over 600,000 files on it. Opening projects took 5+ minutes, saving took 2+, for a 15 minute simple project.
See if that is your issue.
Edit: 600,000 files on the scratch/capture disk.

Can't open fcp project file - fcp not responding

starts to open project but gets to 23% and freezes fcp...project is being stored on a lacie 250gig protable hd with firewire. never had this issue after tons of work. tried going to a autosave version but tried several and they freeze up fcp
any ideas short of moving all the media to another drive and starting a new project (I was just about to start cutting this project today).

Welcome to the forum!
Post the version of FCP you're running.
Try opening a new project file, then importing the captured clips into it... might fix this... If you trash your preferences for FCP found in the user/library/preferences/FCP User data folder, you can just click on the application and it won't try to open the last project file.
Can you open earlier project files OK?
Jerry

Can't open FCP project

Hi everyone
I encountered a problem with my FCP project and I'm not sure how to fix it.
The current workflow is like this - A project is started on FCP 4.5 and later on brought to FCP 5 for final master to BetaSP. (Reason for doing this is becoz we can only master straight to BetaSP on da FCP 5 suite)
This workflow worked for the previous 4 projects.. but it failed with the current one. The project will open till about 90% and then FCP5 will suddenly quit. The project opens fine on FCP 4.5.
Any ideas on what I can do to save this project?
Thanks for the help!
Zee~

one thing you can try is to open the main project in 4.5
duplicate the playout sequence you need to playout
then create a new project and move the duplicated sequence into it
save and close
then try and open the new project in FCP5 and see if that works for you
if thats a no go, then unmount your media drive
then try again to open the the project in FCP5
if it opens then remount the media drive and reconnect the sequence to the media

Can fcp 6.06 open 7.0 projects?

feel silly asking this question,but is it possible to open fcp 7 project files with fcp 6.06?

Simon,
Welcome to the forums,
Not directly, but if you export your FCP 7 project as [XML|http://developer.apple.com/appleapplications/fcpxml.html] you can import that into 6.0.6.

Opening FCP project on another Mac.

I made a project using FCP 5.1. on my 24' intel iMac, i did a media manage and moved the project file and all the files to an external hard drive. Now im trying to open the project up on a Mac pro G5, which had FCP 5.0 but i updated it to 5.1, but when i attempt to open the project file i get a "General Error (41)" message. What is happening, why won't it open?

Try opening FCP first and then open up the project directly from FCP's OPEN menu.
CaptM

Opening FCP 6 project in FCP 5 (general error 41)

So I was handed this project halfway through completion that was done in FCP (version 5.0), that of course won't open FCP 5 (I get the General error 41).
I don't have access (as of now) to FC6 machine, so I can't even export an XML.
I do have access to Final Cut Express HD 3.5.1, but I am getting the same error there.
Any help would be aprecaited.

Here's how to zip...
http://www.automaticduck.com/screenshots/howtozip.html
You don't specify which part of your massive project you need exported to XML, so I exported the entire project to XML 2.0. It is here.

UNABLE TO OPEN FCP 6.02 PROJECT FILES AFTER INSTALLING LEOPARD!

**Unable to open FCP 6.02 project files after installing Leopard**. Tested and found that the files can be opened on another computer with OS 10.4.10, but not OS 10.5. Spoke to apple support many times, and have tried reinstalling FCP, but it didn't work.
Apple is now saying to erase my HD and reinstall from scratch. This presents a problem since i have software installed but no disc due to a move, (they are deep in offsite storage).
Anyone have this problem? Anyone know a fix?

Lynne,
There is a section in the manual on the migration tool... I don't have my machine fired up right now so can't direct you to the exact page. I think a search for migration or migrate should do it.
Two other things to try:
1. There have been numerous reports that Quicktime 7.3 is what is killing older projects. According to one of the third party program makers Apple re-wrote Quicktime changing the null value to Zero from minus-one. I'm not a code junkie so can't vouch for this but the upshot would be, go back to Quicktime 7.1 or 7.2 not 7.3
2. There is a Quicktime plugin called "Perian". For lots of people it has caused numerous problems.
Look for Perian on your machine and if you find it, drag the app to the trash... re boot and try again.
Of course the ultimate solution would be to reinstall Tiger, Final Cut Studio 2 and Quicktime 7.2. So far the most stable combined setup for me and lots of others on G5 machines.
36 degrees and thunderstorms with sleet here this afternoon. The door on my storage unit is staying closed.
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Unable to open FCP 5 files in FCP 6.0.1

Hello,
I just upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 a few weeks ago.
I tried to open one of my current projectsin Final Cut Pro 6.0.1. After reading 22 percent of this project the following error message appeared:
The project can't be opened (unable to open this project)
or it is to new for this Final Cut Pro version
I already deleted the FCP prefs and cache files.
What could be the problem? Mybe the project file is corrupt??
Michael

i have the same problem. have You found a solution so far?
I tried several options so far. I can save and reopen a new project. And I can open the old project in FCP 5.1 without a problem. I even tried this for different projects, so I don'T think they are all corrupted.
Is there a workaround that you know about? I am pretty desperate.

Cant open FCP.

I've done a bad, bad thing. My start up disk was getting full so I installed an additional hard drive then moved all my video projects over to the new HD. Then I remembered all the capture scratch, audio and render files and located and moved them over too. Idiotically confident that I had covered all my bases I dumped all the old stuff. Now I cant open FCP!!! I get the Non-Writable Scratch Disks window that tells me One or more of the scratch disks you have specified does not have read or write access. Good news All the video files I moved are finished and I have DVD's of them. the only problem is I cant open FCP so I can start on my new project. I'ver read through two other posts that are similar to this but they don't address this specific problem. Any Ideas?

open FCP and go to system settings - set the scratch disk to the new location. If you are still having issues after that try using Preference Manager (free) here: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Jimkells
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Help : can't open fcp studio pro 2 file in fcp express 4.1.

can't open fcp studio pro 2 (fcp)file in fcp express. just installed fcp express 4 hd upgrade. everything works fine but i was given a fcp file of a sequence created on fcp pro studio 2. when try to open it i get an error message that says "this project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of final cut" - i updated all final cut express software. help!!

That's correct. FCP projects cannot be opened in FCE.

"Missing Disks" Error Message - Unable to open FCP

Every time I tried to open FCP, a "missing disks" error message shows up and prevents me from opening the application. It says, "To preserve the integrity of the date used by Final Cut Pro, it is necessary to ensure the existence of the following path(s):" and it says "Macintosh HD is offline." There are two options for the error message, "Check Again" or "Reset Scratch Disks." When I click "Check Again," nothing happens. When I click, "Reset Scratch Disks", it takes me to a "Scratch Disks" window, which shows, "9.8GB on Macintosh HD is offline." I click "OK", but it only takes me back the same "missing disks" error message. What should I do to solve this error and open FCP?
Thanks in advance.

Hi -
If you are mid-project, then first I would find your project file and make a duplicate by Control-clicking on it, and selecting Duplicate. You can rename that new file so it is easy to remember. Once that is done, you have a protection back up of your project file so that whatever happens, you can recover back to this point in your project by opening the duplicated file.
Selecting (or Re-Selecting) a Scratch Disk does not affect what has been done in a project's past, it will only affect what FCP will do once it is launched and where it will place media and renders as you go forward.
A bigger concern/interest to me is why the disk Macintosh HD is offline, since Macintosh HD is usually the name of the internal system disk on your computer.
Have you renamed your internal hard disk (either intentionally or unintentionally)?
Do you have external disks connected to your computer?
Have you installed any new software - like Snow Leopard, or Fusion?
If you have had the disk Macintosh HD selected as your scratch disk all throughout your project up to this point, it is likely that the disk Macintosh HD has your captured footage and renders. So . . . if it is off-line as a scratch disk, once you reset your scratch disk to an available drive and open your project, it is likely that the project will show that all your media, which it previously associated with the missing disk is offline as well.
If that is the case, you will need to reconnect your media and re-render your renders. This can be done by selecting your offline clips and Control clicking on one of them and selecting Reconnect Media . . .
*If you are not feeling confident about proceeding, I would recommend a trip to an Apple store to get someone to walk you through the process.*
Hope this helps.

Title issues when exported and re-open FCP X

Every time I create a title box and change the words I export and I get "Title" again. All my work is lost. For example, it might say "Project Management" in a title text box, and I work on the project all day and then export and the video appears as "Title" and is no longer the size, this also happens when I leave for the day and open FCP back up and I have lost all my text. This is really frustrating I have deadliens to meet not spending all day trying to fix a problem that is now mine. Please tell me why FCP is doing this? I need some help! I have tried everything I can think of.

cmuunswcanberra wrote:
It has happened once in another project but I was able to re-type into it and it worked.
So it sounds as though it may be the project.
Try this.
Delete preference files with Preference Manager.
Delete project ender files.
Create a new project.
Copy the problem project and paste into the new project.
Test a title.
Good luck.
Russ

Mac won't open FCP

Unusual problem when I open FCP a dark screen appears over 1st FCP screen (continue icon) and says to shut down the computer by pressing power button. Basically a crash. I did this 3x but still the same.
All the other programs work ok.

Jim,
A kernel panic can occur for a number of reasons. Nothing can be determined without speculating until you've accurately described your hardware and software setup.
It's like saying "my car won't start"...
There could be 100+ reasons why. Do you have gas in it? Is the key in the ignition? Battery charged? yada-yada, durka-durka, etc.
Help us help you by listing your details so that we don't have to waste time asking you about your situation in an effort to eliminate the obvious possibilities.

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