Converting C4 Courseware Tutorials

	Converting C4 Courseware Tutorials by Keith Hill on Jul 29, 2005 at 9:23:54 pm I'm trying to open the new Tut's that came with the new C4 Courseware book this week, but have noticed that they (of course) were done on C4. Problem is I'm still stuck in MAC v.3.0.4 until further notice. Is there a way to convert these Tut's (at least the one's not dealing with the new features in C4) so I can play with them? Keith Hill http://www.LightedPath.biz Dallas, TX Final Cut Pro 5.0.2, Combustion (MAC-v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro 4 (v 3.0.2); MAC G5 (v10.4.2-Tiger) 2Ghz, 1.5 RAM Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Converting C4 Courseware Tutorials by Rene Coffey on Aug 21, 2005 at 2:42:09 pm Hi Keith Did you find a way? I bought the book today and am unable to open the workspaces too. So far it's either pretty easy to recreate in c3 or the tutorials walk you through building the workspace. I know at some point, though, I'm going to want, or need, to open the workspaces...any ideas?! thanks Rene PS..great book, very clearly laid out! Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Converting C4 Courseware Tutorials by shin kurokawa on Aug 21, 2005 at 10:28:24 pm if you only need to be able to read cws's created with a newer version than what you have, any search/replace/grep tool can be used. One method is via the unix shell in OSX or cygwyn on XP: % sed 's/ScriptInfo [0-9] [0-9] [0-9]/ScriptInfo 3 0 2/' newversionfile.cws > oldversionfile.cws Or if you have a lot of files, one way might be: % foreach i (SOMEDIRECTORY/*.cws) ? sed 's/ScriptInfo [0-9] [0-9] [0-9]/ScriptInfo 3 0 2/' $i > CONV_$i ? end [note: "%" and "?" prompts here can be different on your shell] The above just replaces the version number inside a cws or a list of cws's, and outputs the result to a new file(s). (i.e. "oldversionfile.cws" or files in the $i list in the above examples) so that they maybe read by by c* v.3.0.2 or greater. Note that the 'converted' files will not work if there are parameters specific to the new version that don't exist in the older version or they're implemented differently in the older version. HTH but... Use at your own risk, No guarantees, don't sue me, yadayada... -Shin Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index