Any reasons not to upgrade to FCP 6?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dave Martin] “Are there now any good reasons why a guy wouldn’t want to upgrade to 6 (Studio 2) with Tiger and a MacPro Octo?”

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[Dave Martin]

Thanks Walter

Those are certainly some of the reasons I WOULD want to upgrade…any reasons I WOULDN’T want to?

Dave Martin

– MacPro – MacBook Pro –

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dave Martin] “Thanks Walter

Those are certainly some of the reasons I WOULD want to upgrade…any reasons I WOULDN’T want to?”

Sorry, mis-read your post. Nope, i can’t think of a reason not to upgrade. Performance is just better on 6.

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[Chris Borjis]

I would be cautious about the 6.02 update though.

Some folks have not had issues, some have.

I’m skipping 6.02 and awaiting the next update.

[Dave Martin]

Isn’t that the one that fixes the lost renders?

Dave Martin

– MacPro – MacBook Pro –

[Chris Borjis]

I think so, but like most of the releases it breaks other things.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dave Martin] “Isn’t that the one that fixes the lost renders?”

Funny thing about our Mac Pro Quad 3.0. It has never lost renders. Our G5 Quad 2.5 loses renders on occassion.

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[Dave Martin]

That’s interesting!

Besides re rendering…how do you deal with the lost renders?

Dave Martin

– MacPro – MacBook Pro –

[Ben Holmes]

[walter biscardi] “Funny thing about our Mac Pro Quad 3.0. It has never lost renders. Our G5 Quad 2.5 loses renders on occassion.”

Ah – now that’s interesting. I have only seen this on our Mac Pro dual 3.0. Never on the other two G5 systems – not had a workflow that would cause it on our Quad 3.0’s – but I’m betting from what you say this might be Intel Mac only – don’t think I ever read that…

Ben

[Ben Holmes]

[walter biscardi] “Funny thing about our Mac Pro Quad 3.0. It has never lost renders. Our G5 Quad 2.5 loses renders on occassion.”

Ah – now that’s interesting. I have only seen this on our Mac Pro dual 3.0. Never on the other two G5 systems – not had a workflow that would cause it on our Quad 3.0’s – but I’m betting from what you say this might be Intel Mac only – don’t think I ever read that…

Ben