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FCP Studio, are the wheels about to fall off?
I am wondering if Mountain Lion is the last Apple OS that will work with Final Cut legacy? As it stands now, FCS 3 is really the only legacy software it plays with (yes I know there is a byzantine work around involving loading Rosetta from a Snow Leopard disc to force FCS 2 to go through its paces on OSX 8).
I am guessing we have a year or two at most if one wants to ever upgrade their hardware. Apple would like to kill off FC legacy once and for all, is my gut feeling. They are doing the same with Snow Leopard.
I have my current imac locked into Snow Leopard — and I have a feeling there are a lot like me. However, when I looked at the new Aperture download, I see it only works in Lion or Mountain Lion. Also, the new Adobe CC programs won’t work in Snow Leopard.
So how much longer will guys like me be able to cling to the past (I guess until my current imac blows up, though I am hoping that it will remain useable for several more years even though I plan to purchase a new computer in a few months)?
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[Clint Wardlow] “I am wondering if Mountain Lion is the last Apple OS that will work with Final Cut legacy?”
It’s reported that it works in Mavericks too
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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It could be that FCP7 will remain viable for many years to come.
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[Clint Wardlow] “FCP Studio, are the wheels about to fall off?”
Yes.
Traditionally, Apple won’t allow you to install older OSes on new machines, but they will, however, boot older OSes from external disks.
Keep a disk image around that has a clean OS install (Snow Leopard or Lion, ML if you’re feeling lucky) with FCS3.
With the new MacPro, though, this presents a significant challenge as some programs might puke at the dual GPU, but this remains to be seen.
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Was about to buy latest OS to upgrade from Snow Leopard – so I take it FC P 7.0.3/Studio 3 actually does work no problem on Mountain Lion then?
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Seems to.
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“…so I take it FC P 7.0.3/Studio 3 actually does work no problem on Mountain Lion then?”
I have a MBP Retina running Mountain Lion and FCP7 works, but barely. It is very slow. It’s as if the entire program was being emulated. I would be careful when upgrading.
Gerald Goldman
Director of Post Production
Grace Creek Media
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[Clint Wardlow] “It could be that FCP7 will remain viable for many years to come.”
Probably not. Apple has fully deprecated the whole of the old QuickTime C and QTKit frameworks in Mavericks, and FCP7 relies heavily on those. They might be there in Mojave or Tahoe or Catalina (or whatever Cali nickname comes after Mavericks), but betting on them being there after Mavericks isn’t a good wager.
Best,
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[Jeremy Garchow] “but they will, however, boot older OSes from external disks.”
Are you sure about that? My two Macbook Pros are still on 10.6.8 (and can that way) and will be there as long as I can get away with it. That would be great if it is true in case we pick up a newer MBP and need to run Snow Leopard for CS4 or something similar.
I know this doesn’t apply to the newer OS’s and a PPC. If it did, it would make life much easier for me until I’ve got the dough to upgrade my boys Dual G5 to an Intel machine. That Dual G5 is still a good machine for some things (Logic Pro), but I can’t go past 10.5.8 with it, and my oldest son (10) is getting into programming, Motion 5, and 3D graphics, but can’t do much of it in Leopard. Until we can afford a computer upgrade, I put Mountain Lion on an external drive in a Voyager Drive Dock and when my wife or I are not using our MB Pros, he can get in and play around with these programs that don’t run in Leopard. Not ideal, but works.
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[Dave Gage] “Are you sure about that? My two Macbook Pros are still on 10.6.8 (and can that way) and will be there as long as I can get away with it.”
What year are your MacBook Pros? Did they originally come installed with Lion? (Late 2011 and onwards).
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[Dave Gage] “Are you sure about that?”
I’m not 100% sure of everything, but every new Mac that I have worked with can boot older OSes.
You jsut can’t install the OS directly from install disks or downloads.
The MacOS has been pretty solid in this regard.
The new MacPro does stand to change that, though, along with Mavericks.
Jeremy
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