clean install of FCP 7; will it update?

[Jeremy Garchow]

I have a test Lion boot drive with all kinds of stuff on it.

Beta, non Beta, fcs3, FCPX, uninstalling, reinstalling. Ive been trying to break it. It’s been very solid. I do have a disk that’s only fcs3/cs5.5 that I use for production. It gets imaged and backed up. It will be where I freeze the disk for all future fcs3 project restores.

I normally don’t do as I explain in the above, but with all the craziness, I jumped in. People clown Lion, I rather like it. A lot, actually.

Make an image of your current disk just in case.

All of these things run together on Lion with no issues.

Jeremy

[Don Walker]

In the process of backing up my system partitions now. Probably won’t get to FCS 3 install until the morning. But I am going ahead with it.

don walker
texarkana, texas

John 3:16

[Jerry Hofmann]

I don’t think you should worry about it… In my classroom at school, I’m running it along side FCP X on the same Lion partition, and it’s humming along just fine. If you have a capture card be sure there are drivers for Lion, but other than that, you’re not doing something that you’ll regret don’t think.

Jerry

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[Bret Williams]

1. Nope. It’s called FCP X Trial (hey, they keep coming out with free trials every 60 days and I have 2 computers, so…) So yes, you need to put FCP 7 apps in their own folder
2. I never used Motion round tripping since FCP 7 only uses one processor when you’re doing this and it takes about 30 years to render. AND, when you make a change to something like transparency or overlay a graphic over it, it has to render again. Motion roundtripping in legacy was lunacy. Render files with an alpha like I do with AE. Which is what I use for motion graphics 99% of the time anyway.
3. I don’t have motion 5.
4. I don’t know I guess. I forgot about roundtripping. I don’t do that. I thought the question pertained to X vs. Studio. Since Motion doesn’t come with X, I don’t think about it.
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[Bret Williams]

I doubt Lion will break FCS 3. Apple said FCS will work with Lion. Besides, Lion is pretty much done. Mountain Lion may break it, but FCS 3 works in the betas so they say. Even if Lion were to break in Lion, I’d simply revert to an older version. I have time machine backups, I have install disks, etc. I’ve been maintaining Macs for nearly 20 years. I’ve reinstalled the whole system so many times. It’s not that daunting. It’s basically the OS, Studio, and Adobe Master Collection. I’m not much of a plugin guy.

BlackMagic drivers support FCS, Adobe, and X. I’m quickly liking these guys more and more. I also have Matrox and they can’t seem to keep X and FCS drivers the same. But swapping out the drivers are really just a matter of an install/reboot. Not that big a deal. They don’t work in X for much anyway.

I don’t update stuff during a project, so I only gamble my time. Very rarely have an issue.

AJA is out of my price range.

[Bret Williams]

As I’ve said before, Versions is almost as ridiculous as trackless audio and the magnetic timeline in FCPX.

Other than those things I like Lion and X. If you use an Apple wireless mouse or even better a magic trackpad, Lion is pretty neat. I wish Lion was better with dual screens, but alas.