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What to DO??? FCP, Premiere, still mad after all these years
Took time off to make a living. Back working on my movie. Can’t bring FCP7 upstairs to new faster machine because FCPStudio was an upgrade.
Don’t want to learn FCPX it looks too much like imovie which I DETEST.
Don’t want to learn Premiere Pro. (I’ve been fooling with it and it just confuses me, as anything brand-new does).
I love and am familiar with FCP7 where all my clips were made. Maybe I just have to go back to work downstairs on the old machine. That’s probably the easiest slowest option. So…
Question:
If I pay a bunch to buy FCP Studio online from ebay sellers with FCP7 so I can work on my newer machine.
1. is there any support at all anywhere for FCP7?
2. The FCP7 I have probably went through a few upgrades which I must have downloaded but I don’t have them now.
Would there be anywhere to get those now?
3. Why did Apple do this to us? (nevermind that. Let’s not get into it.) -
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[Laurie Pepper] “2. The FCP7 I have probably went through a few upgrades which I must have downloaded but I don’t have them now.”
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL949
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Laurie Pepper] “Can’t bring FCP7 upstairs to new faster machine because FCPStudio was an upgrade. “
The upgrade is still a full install of the program. I had FCP all the way back to version 3 but all I need to reinstall 7 is just the discs and the serial number for FCP 7.
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Something doesn’t add up here. If you own FCP, install it on your new machine and be happy. All that is required is the FCP 7 discs, the upgrade serial (usually on the box/booklet) and your original serial. I actually installed on an older machine today. I have to keep my FCP 1.2.1 serial number around just for this purpose.
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I guess I wasn’t clear. I don’t have the discs. I can’t find them. I think the latest version of studio was gotten as a download. So I suppose I’m going to have to pay somebody on ebay to sell me the discs, since I’ve come to the conclusion I DON’T want to learn premiere.
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Yea! I found the discs!!!
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Since you’re sort of starting from scratch here, this would be a good time, once everything is freshly installed,checked,and operating, to clone the boot drive and save that clone on a dedicated partition, or better, on a separate dedicated drive. Then it will be fast and easy to do a full restore at some time in the future. And of course, burn the update to DVD-R and keep it in the box with the original disks and all the serial numbers/documentation, and put that in a sealed, safe box.
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[Laurie Pepper] “I DON’T want to learn premiere”
I agree and went another way altogether: Avid Media Composer. Every time I use it I wish I’d moved over years earlier. It took the $1,000 cross-grade promotion from FC7 a couple of years ago to get me to make the jump. Now I know that even at what was full price at the time, I should have made the move years earlier.
Yes, you will have a learning curve, but if you’re at all like me, once you start learning the Avid way it’s amazing how fast and efficiently you can work.
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[Nick Griffin] “Yes, you will have a learning curve, but if you’re at all like me, once you start learning the Avid way it’s amazing how fast and efficiently you can work.
“Nice to hear someone saying that about an NLE other than FCPX!
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[Steve Connor] “[Nick Griffin] “Yes, you will have a learning curve, but if you’re at all like me, once you start learning the Avid way it’s amazing how fast and efficiently you can work.
”Nice to hear someone saying that about an NLE other than FCPX!
“i think while FCPX is faster and more efficient on the Pre cutting phase ( spotting/logging/organizing), I dont think Avid can be beat for actual timeline editing, especially if you exploit the shortcuts, IMO.
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Thanks so much for the excellent advice!
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