Final cut pro trial reset gone wrong

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Katly2013 Author

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Final cut pro trial reset gone wrong

I did something really stupid and I am seriously kicking myself. Basically I got the free 30 day trial and it just ran out. I'm not in the position to buy the full version until next month so I stupidly researched ways to get the 30 day trial again. I found a youtube videos which showed how you could copy and paste a command in terminal and I got the 30 day trial again except all my projects were gone. Completely gone. Is there any way I can get them back? Please help, I had loads of footage and videos of my daughter.

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 20, 2020 1:41 PM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Jan 20, 2020 2:29 PM in response to Katly2013

Projects are inside libraries.

Libraries are FCP X’s “documents”. Like any other files they don’t just up and disappear.

What probably happened is that the preferences got cleared so FCP X started in a default state.

Libraries have a purple icon with four stars and names that end with extension .fcpbundle

Search in the Finder and double click to open.

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Jan 21, 2020 2:56 AM in response to Katly2013

As Luis said, the libraries containing your projects are almost certainly on your computer and simply need reconnecting to Final Cut Pro X.

On a different point, if you ultimately want to save £300 you could do your editing in the free iMovie, which can do more things than most amateur editors need to produce highly polished films. Final Cut Pro X is no "better" than iMovie, it just has a lot more specialised features that are generally only required by professionals and rarely, if ever, used by most amateurs.

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Katly2013 Author

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Jan 21, 2020 11:35 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Thank you for your response Ian. I used to use imovie a lot and although I liked using it, I absolutely love using FCP X. I make a few youtube videos and enjoy it so it's definitely something I am going to invest in when this trial runs out. Thanks again. :)

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Katly2013 Author

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Jan 21, 2020 11:34 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Oh thank you so much. I found them. You're a lifesaver!

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Jan 21, 2020 8:47 PM in response to Katly2013

another - legal ;) - way to save some bucks:

you often get AppStore/iTunes gift-cards with a 10 - 20% discount, check your local Walmart et al.

use'm to purchase FCP…

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Final cut pro trial reset gone wrong

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