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DVD Studio Pro gone!
Final Cut Studio 2 can’t be installed on a MacBook Pro from autumn 2011. When looking for upgrades in the Apple Store, I find that the upgrades are gone!!!
I need DVD Studio Pro in my work, and I want to keep using Motion and Final Cut Pro as well.
Somebody else must have noticed these terrible news. What have you done?
I have CS5, but I was perfectly happy with my FCS. I could never had imagined this, and was looking forward to finally becoming mobile. Why would Apple cancel perfectly good software and make the copy you already bought impossible to install?
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Does Final Cut Studio 3 work on my MacBook Pro, if I can find a copy? Seems to still be some around.
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Where have you been for the past 5 or so years. DVDSP has not been sold as a stand alone product since the Final CUt Studio came out. FCS 3 will run fine on any mac with on intel processor, all mbp have intels in them.
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As I understand it DVDSP was discontinued about a year ago. I kept my old Final Cut Studio 2, as there didn’t seem to be any upgrades I really needed in Final Cut Studio 3.
I hope you’re right though, as there still seems to be some FCS 3 for sale. But not as cheap as it was when it was an upgrade. 🙁 I feel cheated by Apple.
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This is all old news. 🙁
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Well, it’s been about a year, and I had missed it. I don’t understand why Apple dropped the support. I use Final Cut Studio 2 on Intel MacPros every day, so I fail to see the need to make it impossible to install on my new MacBookPro.
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It’s maybe a hard decision, but it’s better to say “Good bye, Apple” when investing your hard earned money in new hardware! Use your reliable Apple stuff as long as you can, but have an eye to the fact that the future for Apple-PROs isn’t the best!
Better a scary than a long winded end. 🙂FCP was a well working, but in the same time a real slow working (render time) piece of software! The bad thing is, that Apple has stopped any development to force a realtime orientated NLE software for the industry! We now having iMovie Pro!
Since Apple has started to force online distribution only, they have stopped maintainance & continous work on DVDSP & they have decided to stop support for any future physical media (BD)!
Maybe you can keep your DVDSP alive in a virtual machine or something!
Andreas Gumm
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Thank you for sympathy. I too wonder if Apple wants to get rid of pro users.
I can hardly return the MacBookPro, and it’s a bit too expensive to just be a toy. If FCS 3 will work on it, I will probably try to buy a copy, but I’ll be angry about it. It’s another $1 000, which I didn’t count on having to add to the cost of getting mobile.
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Mmh, you are right!
A MacBookPro is still a great piece of hardware!I’m curious about if a virtual machine can save you workflow alternatively?
I don’t know how good DVDSP work in VM-environment!Andreas Gumm
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If you have FCS2 there should be no reason you cannot reinstall it.
I just don’t see what you are complaining about. If the software works for you reinstall, if you are having a problem reinstalling figure out why. You may still be able to fine a FCS3 upgrade on ebay or something like that, just make sure you get the original install disc and serial number.
DVDSP is still the best authoring software for the Mac, nothing even close. If you need this tool in your business do what you have to to get it up and running.
Apple is a for profit company, while I don’t agree with some of their discussions lately I refuse to keep bitching about it. As soon as their tools no longer work for me I will move on. I will find a way. If I cannot afford to update software when it is needed or upgrade systems to run needed upgrades then I will get out of the business. I don’t want to go to a auto mechanic that says he cannot afford to be shelling out $ for new tools and software just to keep up to date with what is needed by the new cars he services.
Keeping useful equipment and software for as long as they get the job done is smart, replacing them when they don’t is wisdom.
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The reason why I can’t install FCS 2, is because Apple has chosen to drop support and make it impossible! When I press “Install” I get the unhappy message: “You can’t open the application FinalCutStudio.mpkg because PowerPC applications are no longer supported”.
I’m angry and feel cheated, as FCS 2 runs great on my MacPros with Intel processors. I fail to see the need for this programmed hinder.
I did not anticipate this. Had I known, I would not have bought a MacBookPro. But now I’ve got it, and I don’t think I can return it.
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