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FCP both 5 and 6 on one one computer?
Long story short, I have one computer and I need both Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Studio 2 on it. Is there a way to do this using different Users, or maybe partitioning the drive with different startup disks?
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Partition the hard drive, and install the OS on both, or do what I do, and have two internal drives, each with a different version of FCP.
Shane
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Can a hard drive be partitioned without losing information already on it?
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[RobLichter] “Can a hard drive be partitioned without losing information already on it?
“Yes and no. It’s not reliable. search versiontracker.com for partitioning tools. You will find several that CLAIM to be able to partition an active and loaded drive. I cannot imagine why I would trust that statement but you want to check for user reviews of the products.
You’re far better off, in my opinion, to just buy another drive.
bogiesan
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Rob,
You will most likely use FCP version 6 more than version 5 from this point forward. So, create a clone of your FCP 5 system drive to a firewire drive for safe keeping, and boot to that drive whenever you need to run FCP 5.
David
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[bogiesan] “Yes and no. It’s not reliable. search versiontracker.com for partitioning tools. You will find several that CLAIM to be able to partition an active and loaded drive. I cannot imagine why I would trust that statement but you want to check for user reviews of the products.”
You’ll notice that the 1st line of the instructions for one of these programs is typically to back up all of your data & programs, just in case.
David’s advice below is very good. Drives are cheap. Time is money. etc.
Arnie
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This is basically what I did. Right before I was going to install FCS 2 I used CarbonCopyCloner (free software) to make an image of my entire local hard disk to an external. Then I installed FCS2 on my internal drive. If I ever need to go back to FCP 5 (which I haven’t yet) I can always boot from that drive. It will probably be fairly slow… but at least it’s an option. And if for some reason you ever want to restore back to that point, you can use CCC to re image your local disk.
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Paul Escandon
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How do you boot from an external drive???
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1. Click on the blue apple on the upper left of your MAC.
2. Click on Syetem Preferences.
3. Click on Startup Disk.
4. Select the drive you wish to boot from.
Pretty simple…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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