FCP X or not?

[Douglas K. dempsey]

I froze my FCS 3 MacBook Pro 17″ on Snow Leopard. Also has CS3 and other stuff that is stable on that OS.

It seems to be a sweet spot for older versions and EOL apps. Even a creaky app like CS6 Dreamweaver, which modern web builders scoff at, but Adobe still includes in CC suites … works perfectly in Snow Leopard, but is broken in Mavericks.

I picked Snow Leopard because as far as I can tell, that was the last OS that issued ProApp updates (e.g. Frameworks and other files/folders) for FCP 7.0.3

Now my costs are in replacing hardware! $310 Apple flat rate for new motherboard and RAM to fix display issues encountered while — get this — making DVDs in StudioPro for an old-school client!

Doug D