Treasured's Movie Repair Guide -- Final Cut Express / Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro

In this section we use FCP as acronym for both Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

FCP projects contain 4 types of files or resources:


Footage is usually stored in a different location than the rest of the files.

Therefore, when a failure occurs, you can either lose the footage, or lose the project.


If the footage is damaged, you can use the repair service to recover it. Footage files used by FCP can be repaired just as any other damaged file. After repairing, however, the file need to be imported to the project again. In other words, after repairing all the damaged footage files, there is still some significant work at project level to restore the FCP as it was before. This is not included in the repair service.


If the project is corrupted, the repair service will not help a lot: Only the rendered scenes and audio files will be detected by Treasured, and they can be recovered. But the project will have to be created again.