Unable to open a fCE 4 project in final cut proX

Question

Hi there.
I've been working with FCE 4 for a number of years now and just decided to upgrade to FCP. I have an FCE4 project that I would like to open in FCP X but I can't figure out how. I feel like a total beginner... I can't even find File -> Open Project.
Can anyone send me in the right direction?
Thanks!
David

Answer 1

This should be a no brainier for the guys engineering this new upgrade. 
I'm new to the forum, new to Apple Computers, and new to Final Cut.
Fresh insights might be helpful.  Albeit, this is not intended to be by any means an exhaustive list of wrongs with the new and improved FCP X.
I've been working with Final Cut Express 4. The learning curve, for me, was steep.  Apple has a different glossary than PC. I was working in Avid Studio for over 10 years and was very adapt to the software, and it was not without it's faults.
So I had to learn the Apple Way, that took me close to a year.  After investing time and energies into the process and finally getting to a place of feeling like I understood the terminology and the platform of Final Cut, they go and change it.  After doing some google searches to get reviews on the new and improved product, I was amazed at the New York Times article written about the product and the firestorm of ridicule that the author and Apple has received for the new and improved product.
I just decided to download the Trial of Final Cut Pro X, and give it a whirl.  Right off I saw the fresh new look and liked many of the features that were available to me in Avid, but not in Express.  Yes I know that Express is the entry level, but still, it compares to Avid's Studio 14, which blows FCE4 away.  Anyway, I was pleased to see some of the features that I was desiring in FCE4 being offered in FCP X. 
As I said, it seems strange that the engineers took the platform and completely remade it.  OK, that's their prerogative.  I think it's misleading in every way to state that it's Final Cut Pro.  This is a different program with a much different platform, different glossary, different lay out, different filing system, and as mentioned in the very first post, does not accept the files of Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier editions. 
I totally understand the frustration of the Professionals who have invested a lot of treasury, time, and study to learn this program, to work it into their work flow, and then have the rules changed.
For me, it's not a big deal, but I would be extremely bent out of shape to think that the program I've toiled over and become expert at has now been altered to not even have the slightest resemblance to it's apparent Father.
I don't understand why their are not Sequences, Bins, logging properties, and more, just to mention a few.
I'm still trying to decide if I like it or not.  It has many great features that I find easier to follow and understand.
I'm a videographer, and shoot weddings and special events.  I also do documentaries for non profit groups and Churches.  I am a seasoned editor, and Cameraman.   I like the iMac I purchased a year ago, and have had not issues to date, save this program. 
Final Cut Pro X has crashed 4 times in two days, that's the first time I've ever had a program crash with the iMac.  It happened when I was working in the titling portion of the program.
In conclusion, I'm new to this Forum, I sure that I've broken some protocal, but be kind.  I have spent 15 years or more on Avid's Forums and was a seasoned editor and user.  I saw the post and naturally had the same question, which Tom Wolsky provided the same answer for.
I know that when we had such issues as this the boards were alive with comments and responses, but in the end some of our suggestions would end up bringing changes to the product.  They either came out with a fix for a bug or they came out with a new product.
I can remember such issues as this and they took care of them eventually by adding a conversion step within the newer versions or a download to convert the old files to the new file extensions.
Maybe they have this planned for a soon release.  If not I think that Apple may have cooked their golden goose for sure.  Many seem to see this as more of a consumer platform than a Professional editing platform.
I like to follow the chatter on the matter, if there is a proper thread for such things.
Dan
Jubilee Video Productions