• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Installing FCP 6 {Live Type Only)

  Posted by Steve Cohen on June 15, 2016 at 4:50 pm

  I’m trying to install Live Type from Final Cut 6 on an Intel-based iMac running Mavericks.

  Whenever I try to run the installer I get a message that says…
  “You can’t open the application “FinalCutStudio.mpkg” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.”

  This is self-explanatory, but my question/problem is I that i ran the same installer on the same iMac but the OS installed at the time was Yosemite. It installed with no problems.

  The reason I downgraded to Mavericks is because I found out that Motion 4 would not install on Yosemite.

  So why will this installer run under Yomesite but not Mavericks?

  Thanks in advance;

  Steve

  Steve Cohen

  Steve Cohen replied 9 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Christopher Mcdonell

  June 22, 2016 at 4:17 pm

  To install PowerPC apps like FCS 2 you need Rosetta (not to be confused with Rosettastone!). If you have or can acquire a copy of Snow Leopard, you can extract Rosetta from it and you’ll be good to go. I think there’s also a workaround requiring a bit of a code hack but you’ll have to google for it. I was lucky enough to buy a copy of Snow Leopard from Apple when they put it back on the market.

  My specs: FCP 6.0.6, El Capitan, rMBP 15″ i7 2.6 GHz, 16 GB RAM
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  Steve Cohen

  June 22, 2016 at 4:56 pm

  Thank you. That’s What I wound up doing.
  I had a copy of Snow Leopard.
  It was a little tougher than what you said because I’m on an iMac with no DVD drive, bit I made a disk image from my old PPC and then brought that over to the iMac and installed Rosetta.

  Thanks.

  Steve Cohen

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