FCP7 and Rosetta

[C. Park seward]

As you all know, Lion drops support for Rosetta. No PPC apps.

https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/26/mac_os_x_lion_drops_front_row_java_runtime_rosetta.html

Best,
Park

[Gary Huff]

Interesting. According to that Apple Insider article, Snow Leopard does not come with Rosetta by default, so that might mean that FCP7 may actually be okay under Lion. I didn’t install Rosetta and I was able to install FCS3 just fine on my 2011 Mac Book Pro.

[Bill Kelly]

I got one of the new Imacs (with the Thunderbolt port) about a month and a half ago, didn’t install Rosetta, and had no problems installing FCS2.

[Rahul Duggal]

FCP 7 runs just fine on Lion, its FCP 6 which is not supported on Lion as its installer is written in Rosetta.

[Paul Huppe]

Any chance we might be able to get / install Rosetta as a separate app so that we could run PPC apps?

[C. Park seward]

[Paul Huppe] “Any chance we might be able to get / install Rosetta as a separate app so that we could run PPC apps?
“

No. Rosetta is EOL. It will not run under 10.8 Lion.

Best,
Park

[John Pale]

If you have software that can only run in Rosetta, clone your drive (with Rosetta) now and boot off of it when you need to run that software.

The last PPC machine was made over 6 years ago. It wasn’t going to be supported forever.