FCP 4.5 –>6 workflow

[Don Greening]

I’ve had two versions of FCP on the same computer in the past and didn’t really see any issues but generally it’s recommended to get rid of any previous version (totally) before loading up another one. Come to think of it, the reason I probably didn’t have any issues was because I had version 1 running in OS9 and version 4.5 running in OSX.

– Don

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[Mark Maness]

I would suggest that you clone your boot drive to a firewire or secondary hard drive before upgrading to FCS2. This is for two reasons… one compatibility, and two, things do go wrong whne you upgrade any software so this is primarily for protection reasons.

I say that because I have the latest and greatest software available righ now, but we have a small feature film that we started on back last August and it will not open at all under MacOS 10.4.9 but it works fine under 10.4.8.

The program is call Carbon Copy Cloner. You can do a search on Apple’s support site or use Google to find it for you. But I do suggest that you do this first.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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