Handy tip for the different Final Cut Pro versions
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Final Cut Pro |
 Don’t you hate it when that happens?
Shane Ross is one of the top posters / helpers over at the Apple Final Cut Pro discussion forum with some 6,000 posts online these days. That a helluva lotta posts. He is one of the most helpful elitists over there. I read a great post on his blog the other day dealing with the problem of opening older FCP versions in a newer update of the software. The solution isn’t earth-shattering but it is very clever. Most all of us who’ve used FCP for several versions has been faced with this problem. I mentioned this problem of “backwards compatibility” in my Bottom 10 FCP … tips ? post a while back. I really like how newer Avid versions can open older sequences and if a non-supported effect is in the edit it just doesn’t show it. Of course with Avid projects the bins can be saved out separately and you can open any bin while in the current project where in FCP everything in a project lives in one file. That may have something to do with it. But you would think that with all the ‘dot’ releases and bug fixes that professional software has to go through then a little better backwards compatibility would be a must… especially since Final Cut Pro wants to equal Avid in that “Pro” moniker. Sometimes it’s the little things.
