• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compatibility of projects on Macbook Pro & PowerPC G5

  Posted by Deleted User on March 14, 2009 at 6:53 am

  Hi

  I have a 3 year old PowerPC G5 I edit on using FCS2 running Tiger 10.4.11.

  I’m thinking of buying a new or refurbished Macbook Pro to use in addition to my G5. The laptop would run the latest version of Leopard. I’d use an external drive for my project files which I’d like to be able to swap between both machines.

  Would there be compatibility issues editing the same project on the two different platforms?

  Deleted User replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Sacci

  March 14, 2009 at 7:23 am

  The main thing you need to have the same is the version of FCP and the other studio apps if you are planning on opening projects back and forth. The drive doesn’t care about the OS and right now the latest version of the apps runs on both 10.5.x and 10.4.x.
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  Rafael Amador

  March 14, 2009 at 8:02 am

  As Michael points, no compatibility problem having the same FC/QT versions.
  However you may find that you won’t be able to run some fxPlugins in your G5 if the Graphic card is not enough. This may happens depending of the size and bit depth of your footage.
  Rafael

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  Deleted User

  March 16, 2009 at 12:17 am

  Thanks for the advice Michael & Rafael.

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