• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  What is a Quartz Extreme graphics card?

  Posted by Alfred Guzzetti on June 8, 2007 at 6:43 pm

  I just bought a desktop Mac Pro and FCP 6. The system requirements say that FCP needs an AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card and that integrated Intel graphics are not supported. I have no idea what this means. Does the computer already have this card in it? Do I have to buy it? I installed FCP, which seems to run normally, but I haven’t put it to the test.

  I’ve been using FCP 4.5 on a G4 for years and don’t remember anything about graphics cards.

  ALFRED GUZZETTI

  Hugh Barnard replied 16 years, 7 months ago 6 Members · 9 Replies
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  Sean Oneil

  June 8, 2007 at 7:49 pm

  You’re fine. It already has it.
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  Alfred Guzzetti

  June 8, 2007 at 7:52 pm

  Many thanks.
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  Chris Borjis

  June 8, 2007 at 8:01 pm

  I find it funny that it says it won’t work with integrated intel graphics when there is currently no apple system that does.
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  Sean Oneil

  June 9, 2007 at 12:52 am

  Actually I think the MacBook uses an Intel integrated GPU.

  Sean
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  Chris Borjis

  June 10, 2007 at 10:07 pm

  ah, hadn’t thought of that.
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  Colton Allred

  April 28, 2009 at 3:09 am

  I came across the same thing when attempting to install FCP 6 only it will not allow me to install it says it recommends i get a Quartz Extreme capable graphics card and 64MB of VRAM which i believe i have, I have an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, if you have any info on how to bypass this or fix the problem please let me know.
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  Alfred Guzzetti

  April 28, 2009 at 1:07 pm

  What I got was just a warning. I clicked on “OK” and this allowed me to bypass the warning and install FCP 6. Sorry that I don’t know how to get past the roadblock you’ve run into.

  Alfred Guzzetti
  Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
  Intensity Pro card
  OS 10.4.9
  FCP 6.0
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  John Mills

  May 1, 2009 at 4:29 pm

  We moved our machine which had neverpreviously had a problem with FCP 6 even though we use an NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT card which does not support Quartz Extreme.

  Suddenly we couldn’t open FCP, Compressor etc, with the message that we weren’t using a Quartz Extreme capable card.

  We found a solution on the Blackmagic support site, which worked for us.

  https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=184
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  Hugh Barnard

  September 15, 2009 at 4:12 am

  just struck the same error message:

  that I am not using a Quartz Extreme capable card and have FCP failing to open.

  even though i have not changed any settings etc since last opening FCP on my macbookpro.

  any ideas?

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