Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1504)

About Updating Projects from Previous Versions of Final Cut Pro
Almost every version of Final Cut Pro has new features that require the project format to
change. The current version of Final Cut Pro can open projects from any previous version.
For more information, see
“Choosing Project Update Options.”
Before Updating Projects
Before updating projects from earlier versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express,
consider these things:
• Third-party effects scripts, or scripts that you’ve already written or customized, may
need to be modified to take full advantage of the use of Y
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color space in
Final Cut Pro.
• All Final Cut Pro effects take advantage of the Y
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color space. If you used any of
the effects listed below in projects created with Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 or earlier, the effects
may look slightly different when you re-create the project’s render files.
• Video Transitions: Map/Luminance Map, Wipe/Gradient Wipe
• Video Filters: Blur/Gaussian Blur, Channel/Invert, Image Control/Brightness and
Contrast, Gamma Correction, Levels, Proc Amp, Sepia, Tint, Key/Blue and Green
Screen, Color Key, Difference Matte
• Video Generators: Matte/Color
• QuickTime transitions and filters do not take advantage of the Y
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color space. They
always render in RGB space.
Keeping a Copy of Your Project in an Older Format
When you open an older project, Final Cut Pro updates the format to the current version.
However, the updated project only exists within the Final Cut Pro application, not on disk,
until you save it. This means you can save a copy of the project in the current version
and still keep the older one on disk.
To keep a backup of your project in its original format
1 In the Finder, choose a project from an earlier version of Final Cut Pro, then choose File
> Duplicate (or press Command-D).
If you want, you can rename both the original or the duplicated project to indicate its
version number. For example, you can add “_v5” to the end of a project file associated
with Final Cut Pro 5.
2 Open the duplicated project in Final Cut Pro, then choose File > Save.
You can open and use projects created with earlier versions of Final Cut Pro and
Final Cut Express, but you need to specify how you want Final Cut Pro to handle the color
space in these files.
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