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MS Office and FCP conflicts
Is it okay to install Microsoft Office 2004 on my FCP G5?
-Ramsey
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6 Replies
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As long as it is a Legal copy, you should have no problems.
G5 Dual 2.5 160GB System 400GB Media Drive ATI 9800 256MB 6 GB RAM
Dual Gig Quicksilver 1GB RAM 80 GB System drive (3) 250 GB internal media storage
15″ Al Powerbook 1.25 1GB RAM
OS 10.4.2 FCP 5, DVDSP 4, QT 7.02, Boris Red 3GL 2.45 TB External Stor -
Excellent. Thank you!
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Why would there be any conflicts, legal or not?
Joshua Booth
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…because MS isn’t necessarily known for plugging up known holes in it’s products….
But I do run Office because my clients run Office, and I’ve had no problems on my PowerBook. I don’t have it installed on my tower, though, partially because I don’t trust it and mainly because I didn’t want to pay for a second license.
debe
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Many PC-based editing suites in the past have had significant conflict issues with having any “outside” software installed on edit systems. I am less familiar with the Mac platform these days so I inquired coming mostly from a PC past. You will, however, continue to hear advisable warnings to avoid other installs even on Macs that have to do with virus protection. At any rate, PC edit systems are increasingly differentiated as either treat-me-like-any-other-piece-of-software OR don’t-put-a-dang-thing-else-on-me-as-I’m-not-a-PC, I’m-an-edit-system-running-on-a-PC-platform. Recognizing that difference on your own system can mean a lot when the whole thing crashes or won’t accomplish otherwise simple tasks and the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. But again, I was just wondering if the same was true on the Mac side, which I am gather it is not (thank goodness).
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[Ramsey] “Many PC-based editing suites in the past have had significant conflict issues with having any “outside” software installed on edit systems.”
Many? I wasn’t aware of others being so finicky besides discreet edit – which was mostly due to it’s pretty unique low level programming, which caused ODBC driver conflicts bewteen Offoce 2000 and edit. IIRC, that changed in edit 6.0 with the Fox Pro drivers. In any case, since there are more than a few who have both FCP & Xpress Pro on their systems, Word/Office shouldn’t be a concern.
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