beware of 7tox

[John Godwin]

Works fine here. Any current projects are online. Any completed projects are archived to cheap backup hard drives (2 copies) and would have to be reloaded to my raids in any case if I needed to work on them.

Best,
John

[Shane Ross]

I’m unclear what your needs are.

[Carsten Orlt] “This of course makes it basically unusable but for the last project you worked on (if that)”

Why isn’t it good for the current project you are working on…in FCP 7?

And why would you convert a project from 7 to X if there is no media?

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[Carsten Orlt]

Because I have projects from the last 10 years which contain footage I still want to use.
Even if the media is backed up it would take me a long time to restore (tens of hours of footage on LTO per project, and there are many).
I spent weeks and weeks describing all the shots and it would be nice if I could translate that to X, but I think the only real workable solution is CatDV.

I understand that 7toX will work for many people, but I wanted to make users aware of this specific limitation.

Of course it was my mistake to not read the fine print 🙂

Carsten

[Shane Ross]

Yeah…I think that for what you want to do, this isn’t the app to use…

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[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Since the media must be online, you still need to have a working copy of FCP7 around as long as you want to get to your old projects….that could really stink in a few years.

[Michael Gissing]

A second internal boot drive with legacy FCS3 and Snow Leopard @32 bit is the best way to achieve that, I am sure Lion will break FCS3 eventually

[David Roth weiss]

[Michael Gissing] “A second internal boot drive with legacy FCS3 and Snow Leopard @32 bit is the best way to achieve that, I am sure Lion will break FCS3 eventually”

Or, you could follow the directions in this cool tutorial to setup a multi-partition boot drive: https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1

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[Michael Gissing]

Actually David I will have to do that if I want to experiment with FCPX as my MacPro is full with RAID’d internals, unless I use the optical drive bay.

[Jeremy Garchow]

You could also run a clone off of an external FireWire drive just for this purpose.

Even new macs which don’t allow clean snow installs can still boot snow OS.

[Kevin Patrick]

I was under the impression that new Macs, as in Mac purchased since Lion was released have firmware changes that won’t allow you to install Snow Leopard. I recall reading some Mac Pro threads on this topic a while ago and that’s what I thought the conclusion was.