Sharing and EDITing Final Cut Pro Projects...

I'm trying to Share Final Cut Pro Projects between separate User Accounts. The originator of the Project saves to the Shared Folder, which should allow others to not only read, but Edit the files. Unfortunatley, the Scratch Files (video) within the Project always looses it's connection when the Second User connects and trys to edit the Project.
Is their an easy way to Share the Projects so that Others can both Read and Save Changes? Does the Second User always have to rename the file to get it to save back to the Shared Folder?
Thanks for any Help! !
AppleJack_1

Hello and welcome to the forum.
It's always been my understanding that you could open a project created by FCE in FCP, but not the reverse. I fear you may be out of luck.

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