can I have FCP5 and FCP 4.5 both installed?

[Rainer Wirth]

Yes you can. You have to have two systems on two hard discs. I recommend OsX 3.8 for FCP 4.5 and the newest Tiger version with 5. Keep your project seperated from each other. If you have a project in FCP4.5 keep it there, if you started on 5 treat it the same way. You start the computer with one of the systems depending on what FCP you work.

Rainer

P.S. FCP 5 needs a clean install with Tiger

[Raju Bhai]

when u say 2 systems on 2 hard disks, do u mean just the source data and project files for FCP 4.5 should be on a separate disk from FCP5 or that the actual application programs need to be on separate disks? I’m guessing that u mean it’s OK to have FCP 4.5 and FCP5 on the same internal hard disk but that just the project files and all data relating to them need to be separated on different disks.
please clarify
thanks

[Jeff Carpenter]

He means two different boot drives. So you would re-start your computer depending on which Final Cut you wanted to use. It COULD be 2 different discs, or you can re-format a single drive into 2 partitions using Disk Utility (if it’s large enough). You would instal a different OS on each partition and treat each one as if it were a seperate computer within your computer.

[Chris Babbitt]

I am running both FCP5 and FCP3 on Tiger on the same system drive. Why would it be any different running 4 and 5 together?

[Rainer Wirth]

Jeff is one hundred percent right. Two complete systems on two partitions. You have to restart the computer to work either on 4.5 or 5.
Don’t mix the two, and don’t mix project files, you end up in a mess, because onco you’ve transferred a 4.5 project into a 5.0 project you have to carry on in 5.0.
This is the only way I know of that the two systems work reliable.

Rainer

[Chris Babbitt]

Have you tried it? I have, and it works just fine. I do have separate folders for project files from different versions.