AngelaRH
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Q: Final Cut Studio won't open a project

I am working on a project in FCS 6.06.  It has 8 sequences.  The work was going fine. Yesterday I tried to open the project and received a message that this project can't be opened because a newer version of FCS is needed.  I've done the whole project on FCP 6.06.  How can I open my project.  I have MANY hours in this project.  The autosaves do not open either.  Same message.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), iMac6,1

Posted on Aug 17, 2016 2:57 PM

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Q: Final Cut Studio won't open a project

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  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Aug 17, 2016 7:28 PM in response to AngelaRH
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    Aug 17, 2016 7:28 PM in response to AngelaRH

    Between the time the application was working and the time you tried to open and failed, did you make any changes to your computer? Any OS updates?

     

    MtD

  • by AngelaRH,

    AngelaRH AngelaRH Aug 18, 2016 12:30 PM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Aug 18, 2016 12:30 PM in response to Meg The Dog

    No changes, no updates  The message is "this project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut"  I've done all of the work on this version.

  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Aug 18, 2016 4:30 PM in response to AngelaRH
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    Aug 18, 2016 4:30 PM in response to AngelaRH

    Digital Rebellion's Pro Maintenance Tools contains a Project Repair Tool. You might try it on a copy of your project and see if you have any luck.

    There is a free trail period, if I remember correctly:

     

    https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/

     

    Also, can you zip a copy of the project and post it somewhere public for download (don't need the media, just the project) and I'll try and open it on my machine.

     

    MtD

  • by AngelaRH,

    AngelaRH AngelaRH Aug 18, 2016 10:36 PM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Aug 18, 2016 10:36 PM in response to Meg The Dog

    Thank you.  I went back a generation in the autosave vault and was able to open the project.  I then had to reconnect hundreds of links.  I'm still not sure why that worked but it did.

  • by Studio X,

    Studio X Studio X Sep 6, 2016 2:04 PM in response to AngelaRH
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    Sep 6, 2016 2:04 PM in response to AngelaRH

    FCP 7 was last validated for OSX 10.6.8. I'm not sure what the last version of OSX FCP 6 was certified to run on but I'm pretty sure you are past it. The lesson is, if you have software you need to run, do not go beyond the OS version it is certain to run on. After that version, all bets are off and you can be chasing your tail.

     

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