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46 Part I An Introduction to Final Cut Express
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, a message appears for each open project, asking if you want
to save your changes. The next time you open Final Cut Express, 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, you’ll be asked if
you want to update your project. For more information, see Chapter 59, “Backing Up
and Restoring Projects,” on page 937.
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.