Opening and closing projects – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual

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Part I

An Introduction to Final Cut Express HD

Opening and Closing Projects

You can open and work on more than one project at a time. When you finish working
and quit Final Cut Express HD, a message appears for each open project, asking if you
want to save your changes. The next time you open Final Cut Express HD, all projects that
were open at the end of your last session open automatically. You can have multiple
projects open at the same time, each represented by its own tab in the Browser.

To open a project:

1

Choose File > Open.

2

Locate and select the project file, then click Open.

If you created the project in a previous version of Final Cut Express HD, you’ll be asked
if you want to update your project. For more information, see “

Backing Up

and Restoring Projects

” on page 903.

To close a project:

1

Click the project’s tab to bring it to the front.

2

Do one of the following:

 Choose File > Close Project.
 Control-click the project’s tab, then choose Close Tab from the shortcut menu

that appears.

 Press Control-W.

3

If you’ve modified the project and haven’t saved it, a message asks if you want to save
changes to the project. Click Yes to save the project.

Control-click the tab and
choose Close Tab.

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