FCP 7 killed in Yosemite?

[Ri Stewart]

Whatever your teacher is telling you, let me share some real word stuff at the risk of sounding arrogant.

In the production biz, it’s about telling your story, and delivering. Everything is a tool to do that. Never get attached to your workflows. If one is actually doing their job, every project should use a a different workflow to achieve success.

I’ve edited 4 feature films in FCPX now, and collaborated with people in ways previously not possible. People like the work, we’ve got a bunch of awards sitting here. FCP7 is dead, and we’ve all had plenty of time to mourn it’s passing.

I think Avid is user hostile, and in todays world of getting things out slicker and faster, I would work in FCPX over anything else out there. Try it. Don’t be afraid. There’s plenty of conversions of FCP7 to X. Deliveries have not been a problem in todays digital world and that of DVD’s, film tests, and cinema. That includes output to Protools, but why use it? Logic X works beautifully with FCPX and is a faster workflow. Who has time to wait for 2-1/2 hours to bounce out a mix in real time?

I jumped into FCPX a couple years ago as an early adopter doing music videos, shorts, etc. to learn it. When it was robust enough, I imported a full film into it. It held up. My production managers have approved the workflow in multi-million dollar projects. Who cares if Yosemite won’t run 7. Good riddance!

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[Rosie Walunas]

Does anyone know if you buy a new MacBook Pro Retina now that ships (not an upgrade from Mavericks) with Yosemite on it, if FCP7 can be installed?

Thanks.

[Mark Suszko]

I would guess not, because the Yosemite OS doesn’t come with Rosetta, which FCP7’s installer needs. You can’t go back home again.

[Rosie Walunas]

I just read Rosetta was killed with Lion. Yet FCP7 ran on OS’s up to Macericks. How would this be any different? Anyone with first hand knowledge?

[Will Moindrot]

As far as I’m aware Rosetta used to be used to install PowerPC applications (Final Cut Studio 1 and 2), but Final Cut Studio 3 (that’s Final Cut Pro 7) is written for Intel processors and doesn’t need Rosetta.

If you were installing Final Cut Pro 6 you might have trouble but FCP 7 should be fine. I did a clean install of Yosemite on my 2014 Retina Macbook Pro, and have installed and used Final Cut Pro 7 with no issues – I even got QMaster working ok.

For anybody getting a new laptop with Yosemite pre-installed I guess there might be some hardware-level drivers missing that disallows FCP7 use but I doubt it.

Hope this helps. Will

[Danielle Zorbas]

Hi all,

I’m a crack FCP7 user (but I also own Avid, just afraid to jump ship right now).
I’m on a 2012 MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.5).
Do I:
*edit on FCP 7 with Mountain Lion
*attempt Yosemite OSX update and then reinstall crack FCP7
*move to Avid.

Footage shot on mostly a7s (.mp4), some Arri, some fs700.

I know Apple Pro Res HQ is best for FCP7, is it also best for Avid? (I won’t be doing an upres on the final export.) Also, what transcoding software is best for all these- Compressor can’t handle a7s apparently.

Advice appreciated.
Cheers

[Mark Suszko]

The re-installs are where people get bit most, from what I’ve observed. And it would be harder if you were using a (word banned by cow censoring software) version of the program.