Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1377)

26 Part I Media and Project Management
Updating Projects
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.
To update projects created in earlier versions of Final Cut Pro:
1 Open a project created using an earlier version of Final Cut Pro. A message tells you
that the file’s format is outdated and asks if you want to update the format. Click Yes.
2 If a dialog appears with options for improved color fidelity, click the appropriate
checkboxes, then click OK.
Note: These options are available for codecs that support Y´C
B
C
R
color space.
 Update sequences for improved color fidelity: This sets the maximum white value to
Super-White in the Video Processing tab of the Sequence Settings and Sequence
Preset Editor windows. All future rendering in the sequence is done in Y´C
B
C
R
in
super-white.
Note: If you check this option, the “Always Render in RGB” option in the Sequence
Settings or Sequence Preset Editor window is not selected. For more information, see
Volume III, Chapter 24, “Rendering.”
 Remove existing render files: This deletes all render files on the scratch disk for the
sequences in this project. If you keep existing render files, the rendered media may
have color or intensity shifts. You should keep existing render files if the quality
difference is not a problem for your projects or if you need to get a project done fast
and don’t want to rerender files. If you keep existing render files and want consistent-
looking media, you’ll have to rerender the files because sequences in previously
rendered media may have color or intensity shifts.
Note: You cannot restore deleted render files with the Undo command.
Choosing these options will not rerender any material immediately. You need to open
any affected sequences and render them manually.
Click here to update
your project.