FCP 6 and Mountain Lion hell

[Neil Patience]

Sadly I think that FCP 6 relies on a Rosetta component that is not supported on ML. Although FCP6 was intel compatible the installer was somehow Power PC based hence needing Rosetta for it to work. I am pretty sure as yet there is no way around this, but I am sure someone will chime in if there are any hacks or methods to do this. FCP7 is fine although I realise that not much help to you right now, maybe if you can find an upgrade somewhere (Ebay?)
Otherwise there is a thread here where someone had FCP 6.06 already installed on Snow Leopard and then did a ML upgrade (not clean install) that worked.
Maybe thats a very long winded option ?

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1162499

best wishes
Neil
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[Jason Barnada]

If you still have Snow Leopard disks laying around put them into your iMac an load up the extras installer and install Rosetta. It should allow you to go ahead and run the and install Rosetta.

FCP6 apps are not PPC just the actual installer. Iv done this back on Lion never tried it on ML so no guarantees.

[Shane Ross]

Does Rosetta even install on Mountain Lion? I thought people tried and it wouldn’t work…thus why FCP 6 onto ML was near impossible.

FCP 6 is five years old…VERY old in software years. Trying to get software that old to work on new OS is pretty difficult, if not impossible. And since FCP 7 is no longer sold besides on eBay, used(it at least installs and works on ML)…you might be stuck needing to use older computers and older OS versions.

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[Christopher Mcdonell]

[Shane Ross] “Does Rosetta even install on Mountain Lion? I thought people tried and it wouldn’t work…thus why FCP 6 onto ML was near impossible.

FCP 6 is five years old…VERY old in software years. Trying to get software that old to work on new OS is pretty difficult, if not impossible. And since FCP 7 is no longer sold besides on eBay, used(it at least installs and works on ML)…you might be stuck needing to use older computers and older OS versions.
“

I’m a FCP 6.0.6 user cutting with a rMBP 15″ (2012) with ML 10.8.3. No problems to report so far. After buying the laptop, I had to call Apple and order a SL disk. I then installed Rosetta from the Extras which allowed me to then install FCP 6 and do the updates from there. So I confirm that despite being legacy, it’s all good!

With every new update, I’m a little concerned though. So I always make a Carbon Clone of my OS before updating.

I hope FCP 6.0.6 will still work with Mavericks. We’ll have to start a thread at that time and report back to each other.

Chris

[Eddie Bojorquez]

I made a (new) account and am replying for the sole purpose of letting you know:
This completely worked.

I’m on an Intel i7 27″ iMac with 10.8.5
Had to reinstall everything (drive went down)
Lost my ability to use FCP 6
Got the install disc and had it error (“because PowerPC applications are no longer supported”)
Did a bunch homework on line
Found this suggestion by Jason Barnada
Grabbed my own Snow Leopard disc and installed just Rosetta
Took 10 seconds, looked like nothing happened
Retried installing FCP 6 (Studio 2) and voila

Thanks so much!
•Eddie
(https://www.Studio512.com)

[Anna Conlon]

I have been looking for a solution to this problem for months and this worked for me also.

Used snow leopard to install just rosetta and then was able to install FCP6 so delighted with this ….tots simple after all 😛

No problems or errors either

Thanks to Eddie Bojorquez and Jason Barnada for posting this solution