• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP 6 and 7 on the same machine

  Posted by Sam Ellens on May 10, 2010 at 8:39 pm

  I highly doubt this is possible but a friend was wondering if you can do it. Reason being that he wants to work in 7 himself but also has an ongoing arrangement with an editor who works with 6, so he can’t break compatibility.

  Thanks

  Sam Ellens
  Assistant Editor – Zamasti Films
  Toronto, Canada

  John Boros replied 14 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Tom Bucknall

  May 10, 2010 at 10:11 pm

  I don’t think it’s possible, but off the top of my head you would need two HDD’s both with OS X installed on them. Then you would need to install FCP 6 on one, remove it, boot the other drive and install FCP 7 on it. Then re-insert the FCP 6 drive, boot from it and see if you can run FCP 7 from the other drive.

  This is all purely hypothetical, I’m pretty sure you would run into some permission errors, but I’m just spitballing.

  Tom
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  Tom Bucknall

  May 10, 2010 at 10:28 pm

  I don’t think it’s possible, but off the top of my head you would need two HDD’s both with OS X installed on them. Then you would need to install FCP 6 on one, remove it, boot the other drive and install FCP 7 on it. Then re-insert the FCP 6 drive and see if you can run both. This is all purely hypothetical and I think y
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  Michael Sacci

  May 11, 2010 at 12:50 am

  Tom you are on the right track but…

  You cannot run FCP from any drive but the drive you are booted to. So you have different boot drives with the different version of FCP installed on them. I have this setup for the same reason. I need FCP6 I just reboot to that OS and drive.
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  Sam Ellens

  May 11, 2010 at 12:55 am

  Thank you both for the information, I’ll pass this on to my colleague.

  Sam Ellens
  Assistant Editor – Zamasti Films
  Toronto, Canada

  Sam Ellens
  Intern – Zamasti Films
  4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

  My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB
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  John Boros

  November 1, 2011 at 5:58 pm

  Hey, I know this post is a bit old, but I am in the exact same position and am not sure how to go about doing this. If you don’t mind, would you be able to give me some explicit instructions? I would greatly appreciate the help!
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  Sam Ellens

  November 1, 2011 at 7:22 pm

  You have to install OSX to an external drive, or secondary internal, then install whichever FCP (6 or 7) that you don’t have on your other drive. Then when you want to change FCP versions you simply boot from the other drive.

  I won’t provide step by step OSX install instructions because these are extremely easy to find online with a Google search.

  Sam Ellens
  Assembly Editor – Redemption Inc
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  John Boros

  November 1, 2011 at 8:17 pm

  You’re the best! Thank You!

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