FCPHD and FCP5 on same machine

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you really want it to be painless and hassle free, get yourself another internal hard drive (a SATA drive if you’re on a G5, or an IDE drive if you’re on a G4). Install Panther (10.3.8), QT 6.5.x, and fcp 4.5 on the new drive. ALthough it might be a hassle up front (paying for a drive and doing all of the installs) it will save you some headaches down the road. People on this four and others have successfully installed different version of FCP on even quicktime on the same drive, but I would not recommend it. Keep the big cats (TIger & Panther) in separate cages to avoid conflict.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Paul Kondo]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I don’t have the luxury to follow through on this option at this point in time.

[Debe]

The difference in QuickTime is one reason why you can’t run FCP 4.5 and FCP 5 on the same system. There are more.

If you can’t buy a new drive, you could partition your existing drive and set up two systems on the one drive, one for 4.5 and one for 5.

One gotcha there is unless you can clone the existing drive, you’ll have to re-build it from the original install disks. Another is the drive may be too small for two full systems if partitioned.

If this is a one shot thing, it’s probably not worth it. You’d be better off borrowing a FCP 4.5 system from someone who’s still running it. Or take FCP 5 off the system and install 4.5.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

debe

[Paul Kondo]

I think I’ll just uninstall FCP5. This job is only for a few weeks. However, I’ve done a ton of searching and it seems unclear as to how to cleanly uninstall Final Cut Studio. I’ve searched here, LAFCPUG, 2pop, and the Apple site. It seems as if nobody has a definitive answer.

Anyone?

[Francois Stark]

…on one of our suites.

We are actually stuck on os X.3.8 and FCP 4.5, but have received some projects on FCP 5. So we have a os X.4.2 installation on a tiger drive, with FCP 5 installed on it.

Last week, I tried booting on os X.3.9 (quicktime 7 works well with FCP 4 in panther), plugging in the drive with the os X.4.2 partition, and running FCP 5 off that partition, and it worked, even while accessing our SAN. The editor was impressed and said it was quite stable.

So – boot on os X.3.8 and run the app straight off the firewire drive, without using the dock.

Regards
Francois

[Hal Beery]

Would that also work on a fw800 external… say, put fcp4.5 on the external and run 5 on the internal system drive?

[Francois Stark]

I just realised that the system is still running the older version of 3D title tool (from FCP V4.5) from the old drive with FCP 5. It works, but doesn’t reliably read titles created on a full installation of FCP 5.

So beware.