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FCP 6 Snow Leopard compatibilty?
I installed Final Cut Studio 2 with Final Cut Pro 6 into my new MacMini with Snow Leopard v. 10.6.2. I edited an entire project on FCP just fine, then discovered that DVD studio pro was screwy, content missing, it tells me that my compressed files are PAL (they’re not), etc. I reinstalled the whole Studio program, and after that all my FCP files disappeared, so I reinstalled a third time, now my FCP files came back but won’t open because it says that my files are too new a version for FCP! What the heck? I’m assuming this is a compatibility issue? Any suggestions on how to fix this? I”m in a serious time crunch to deliver this project.
Lynne
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Did you do a clean install. of just do an upgrade?
1. Back up plug-ins, and downloaded aps and data.
2. Wipe your system drive.
3. Install SL
4. Install FCS
5. Check for, and install updates.
6. Re-install aps, plug-ins, data
7. Update drivers as needed.I have been running SL w/FCS2 since SL was released, and it has been working great. Apple says you can just do an upgrade, but it just ain’t so. Search term ‘clean install’ in this forum.
Scott Sheriff
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Apart from the fact that I wouldn’t consider running FCS2 on Snow Leopard, I wonder if your version of FCP6 was updated to a later version but when you reinstalled, you haven’t updated to the same or later version that you used to edit with. That would cause the software to report the Unable to open..Later version message.
What version of FCP6 are you running? At the very least I would recommend 6.0.6. The early releases of version 6 were quite buggy.
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“Apart from the fact that I wouldn’t consider running FCS2 on Snow Leopard,”
Is that based on actual experience, or repeating what others have said?
After looking at what other SL bashers have said, it comes down to a few basics.
1. People didn’t do a clean install-despite what Apple says, with Pro aps a clean install is the secret.
2. Lack of QT7-Misinformation, QT7 is in fact on the SL install disc, it’s just an option you have to choose.
3. Loss of functionality with some 3rd party devices and plugins-This is true. Some things are not 64 bit compatible, and will never be. You have to decide if keeping some legacy device, is more important than moving into the future.
4. Must have Intel based Mac-This is also true. Non-Intel Macs are boat anchors. Or will be shortly. They should be donated to a school, or used for an audio server, or some other non-critical ap. How long do you expect Apple to keep supporting old systems?
Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
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[Scott Sheriff] “”Apart from the fact that I wouldn’t consider running FCS2 on Snow Leopard,”
Is that based on actual experience, or repeating what others have said?”
It is based on constant reading of opinions and other contributors real world experience on this forum and a desire to make a balanced judgement to minimise problems and down time.
I am, like you, amazed at how people have ignored warnings about the best way to install and upgrade. You have obviously studied the advice, opinions and read all the sad stories of those that don’t do their homework.
My choice was a total system upgrade. New hardware, SL on new drive, FCS3 – waiting until 10.6.2 and FCP7.0.1 were available. I saw no point in upgrading hardware, OS and then reinstalling FCS2.
The price of the FCS3 upgrade is trivial and the huge improvements to Color plus the new flavours of ProRes are ample reasons to do an OS and FCS3 upgrade simulataneously. I still have 6.0.6 on my old G5 so I have legacy.
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I didn’t wipe the system drive, but I installed FCP from the original discs immediately upon opening my new computer, would that be considered a clean install? By the way, upon third installation, FCP is now working properly, but DVD Studio Pro is still telling me that my compressor imports are PAL. I checked all the item properties and everything is NTSC as it should be. I’ll look into updates. Thanks Scott.
Lynne
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Yeah, I think it’s 6.0.1, I’ll update and see if that helps.
Thanks!Lynne
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There should be some updates that affect DVDSP as well. Make sure you are also up to date with pro apps.
There isn’t a problem with your install not being clean on Snow Leopard. People have had problems doing upgrades from Leopard to Snow Leopard and also FCS2 to FCS3. Both OS and FCS version updates are best done with clean installs.
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Thank you Michael. I’ve now done all the available updates, and everything seems to be working except that DVDSP won’t recognize my previous compressor exports as NTSC. So I’m re-compressing a section to see if the updates affect it. Fingers crossed….
Lynne
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Run disc permissions after an update. It can’t hurt, and sometimes it helps.
Also, trash your preferences.As far as clean install. Some folks have done the upgrade over existing thing and it worked OK, but there are a lot more that it didn’t go well for. When they wiped the drive and just installed the new ver. on fresh drive the problems went away.
Its a lot of work to do a ‘clean install’, but in the end it saves a lot of time and frustration. It also eliminates a variable when your are having a problem.Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com
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