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FCP under Leopard, is it good to go? – I tested it under fire – here’s my opinion
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well, I did the same as you with my MBP.. and I have experienced a little bit more “erratic” behavior on FCP, specially on the UI drawing.. I have to say that at home I have the MBP connected to a 30 inch screen… anyway, overall FCS it’s working fine and almost all apps are working okay.. but Leopard tends to slowdown a lot, specially when some apps (like Abobe ones ) stay on the on the background for a while… browsers hang a lot (safari and Firefox).
Anyway.. as Ben said, it’s my personal laptop and I have just upgraded.. (to lazy to reinstall all again and specially move all the data back an forth) and as I read on several places.. Leopard works best when it’s clean installed.
But I’m thinking, after reading your post, that maybe (and wishing) Leopard could be the solution to the problem that the two edit stations (G5 Quad and MacPro) where I’m editing are having. FCP is not rendering still images or rendering graphics out of place… seem a bug in the Render cache manager..
Let’s see!
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[Berenger Capmany] “I have experienced a little bit more “erratic” behavior on FCP, specially on the UI drawing.. I have to say that at home I have the MBP connected to a 30 inch screen”
Wow. Not suprised! Didn’t think that was supported – doesn’t it exceed the MBP’s gfx card specs? Perhaps I missed an update (mine is a 2.33Ghz).
I suspect not everything in the Leopard garden is rosy. I have many many apps cluttering up my laptop, and I have even seen the old grey screen of death twice, but not when using Apple apps. My point is that Leopard has been around as a development tool for a year now, and certainly Apple will be ahead of the curve when developing their own software. I don’t have any evidence if this except my own anecdotal experience, but it seems to fit for me.
We’re all going to have to move on soon anyway. Newer systems just won’t support Tiger installs. I think the time is probably upon us (unless you’re an Adobe user – which I’m not, except Photoshop CS3, which works fine on my laptop).
Search back a couple of years, and you’ll find all the same posts for Tiger. I would expect another FCP update around Macworld, or at any rate in the next month or so. That should people added confidence about making the leap. We’re not on .0.0 anymore…
Ben
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[Berenger Capmany] “FCP is not rendering still images or rendering graphics out of place… seem a bug in the Render cache manage”
What codec are you using? Just curious as I had a similar problem and this is the first I have heard of anyone else having anything even remotely close to this.
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ProRes… but we’re already talking about this in the other Thread… 😉
Here I was wondering if the (desperated)jump to Leopard could solve the problem… since some folks said here that FCP runs smoother on Leopard as “FCP seems developed with Leopard in mind”
Cheers
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Yeah, sorry. I didn’t see that until after I wrote that. I have moved over there.
I’ll stop wasting bits.
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8.0.1 was released for AE yesterday.
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[solie swan] “8.0.1 was released for AE yesterday.”
It was released in Sepetember of 2007 and fixes an an MP4 import issue. Nothing about Leopard and I don’t see any other After Effects updates listed.
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Sorry Walter – thanks for the clarification. I had just intalled AE CS3 yesterday and then ran the Adobe updater and figured it was the awaited AE update 🙁
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Walter
The 8.0.2 update is now available 🙂https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/01/aftereffects_cs3_802_update_is_1.html
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