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9 hours to install FCS?
Hi Gang,
Finally coming back to MAC, but new to FCS.
I’m installing FCS2 onto a new MBP. Should it really take 8+ hours to install the whole suite? There’s a lot of material, particularly with Soundtrack Pro, but wow! Really?Time remaining did just drop from 8:35 to 7:25.
15″ MBP 2.4; 2G RAM; 160G HD
FCSThanks
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Took me about 4 hours. That time is arbitrary…it should only take 4-5. There is a LOT of stuff to install.
Shane
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It’ll also take up your entire hard drive…. If you’re just installing core applications without all the audio loops and nonsense install only takes 20 minutes or so
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DVDStudio Pro sure installs a bunch of crap as well.
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[Bill Meissner] “Should it really take 8+ hours to install the whole suite?”
Bill,
Keep in mind, once you’ve done the install from the disks you’re not done yet. There are several, and I mean several, updates that need to be downloaded and installed. Keep doing the Apple Software Updater (click on th little blue apple in the upper left corner to find it) and reboot and update again, until you egt a message that everything is up to date.
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I just did this the other night on my new Mac Pro. It took a couple of hours and around 4-5 rounds to get all of the upgrades installed. Don’t forget to repair permissions also.
Tom -
I was given a tip re: installing FCP from a very smart friend of mine. It takes a while to do this the first time, but if you need to install/reinstall FCP it makes the process much faster and painless the next time you need to do it. Make a disk image of your FCP install disks, one by one. Then when you need to reinstall, simply mount all of the disk images to your desktop by double clicking them. The installer will automatically pull from what it needs, you won’t have to switch disks, and reading from a hard drive is much faster than reading from a DVD. I have a bunch of disk images of all my fave programs on my fast scratch media drive. It’s pretty cool. When the studio makes a full move to leopard, I will need to reinstall FCP 4 times and with a small bus powered fw800 drive, I can install FCP and walk away until it’s totally done. Then run the updates.
ALso, you can select to NOT install the templates and stuff that FCS provides as has been already mentioned. I don’t use the templates for Motion, DVDSP, etc, but I DO like having all of the audio files/sound effects. Those a treasure to have when you need them and have tipped in many o’edits, in my humble opinion.
Jeremy
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Yes making the disk images is definitely the speedy way of installing , especially for reinstalls.
[Jeremy Garchow] “When the studio makes a full move to leopard, I will need to reinstall FCP 4 times”
Just a tip instead of installing every ting on each computer, install every thing once on one computer and then clone the drive to each of the others. Then you just need to delete the license file and give each computer a different software SN. Or even better once you get everything installed and set up, use an external drive to boot from and make a dmg of the enter computers set up. Then just go to each new machine and boot from then external and image the new machine. Another good thing about this method is that if the software gets corrupt ether OS or apps, you can just grab the files you wish to keep and re-image the entire drive again. You can literally be back up and going on the machine with in hours.
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I hear you, Zane but all of our machines weren’t created equal. I am not a fan of cloning systems from one machine to another when one machine’s hardware is totally different.
Especially when it’s g5s and intels, laptops and desktops. I prefer to do full installs on each machine to quell my paranoia.
Jeremy
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Just did this last night on practically the same machine and had the same panic, but I was done with FCP and on to another install in no time (an hour or so). I did skip all the extra Soundtrack media, etc – will pop those on an external HD at a later date.
Cheers,
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You have a totally valid concern Jeremy. Keep in mind that Leopard is universal so a the same clone can be applied to a PowerPC Machine and to an Intel Machine. The only time you may have issues, is if the Machine was released after Leopard was. The installer for an off the shelf purchase of Leopard will work on older machines, but newer ones may require a newer build of the OS that contains drivers for newer hardware. So I myself will be building a new image once my new MBP arrives.
Try a basic image, and then customize each machine after it is imaged.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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