Final Cut Pro messed up my project

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Final Cut Pro messed up my project

Worked on a video project for over 12 hours straight, as I was done, the audio was clipping. I Closed the application and when I reopened it, all the video clips were duplicated and it random order, and I lost the "zoom" editing I did for the clips (which was a lot). I am unable to find the "backup" files for this, I was previeously working with FCP6 and it stored multiple backup files in a folder. I am unable to find any backups except the "single" one that is under the Final Cut PRojects folder. Can someone please advise? Spent ALL day working on this, now its all messed up! What happened 😟

MAc Pro 2x2 Dual Intel Xeon tower

7gb 667 mhz

have 250gb available free space

PLEASE HELP!

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 4, 2013 12:38 AM

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Russ H

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May 4, 2013 6:50 AM in response to luzacristal

Hard to know the answer to what caused it.

Try this: With FCP closed, move the Backup file to the same level in the folder hierarchy as the CurrentVersion file. Hide the CurrentVersion file in a temp folder outside the project folder. Change the name of the ** file to CurrentVersion.fcpproject.

Launch FCP and open project.

Russ

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luzacristal Author

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May 4, 2013 8:22 AM in response to Russ H

Thank you Russ

But it didnt work. Followed steps and the "Backup" file which is nwt CurrentVersion looks the same as the original one... 😟

I did open the backup last night, and when I did it looked flawless. But I kept getting an error message that said "Final cut could not save my current projects, quit to save changes" or something like that. And so I did. When I restarted mac, and reopened FCP, that backup file now looked messed up. Do I have any options? I would think FCPX would save the multiple backup files, the "render" files just like it did on FCP6, or at least a better way to keep your projects safe...any hope?

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Russ H

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May 4, 2013 8:43 AM in response to luzacristal

Sorry it didn't work. Sounds like the ** file got updated last night.

luzacristal wrote:

I would think FCPX would save the multiple backup files, the "render" files just like it did on FCP6, or at least a better way to keep your projects safe...any hope?

I agree. There are some third party apps that will do multiple back-ups, but unfortunately that's not going to help now.

Do you run Time Machine or some other ** utility? If your projects are included, you could restore.

Otherwise, I'm afraid your solution is a do-over.

Russ

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