FCPX 10.0.6 is great but check your drivers…

[Bret Williams]

I should have checked! But thankfully BMD Ultrastudio Express didn’t even notice. Did I mention it’s drivers also power Premiere CS6, AE CS6, FCP 7 PS CS6 and FCP X all at the same time? 🙂

[Olof Ekbergh]

Brett, are you running 10.8.2?

Olof Ekbergh

[Eric Santiago]

When I found out about this update, I warned folks at REDUSER to be careful if they are using any ATTO cards, Sonnet Echo Express Pro and RED ROCKET.
Apple OS 10.8.2 is basically bunk with the above hardware.
You will also need an update from RED to get FCPX to recognize the R3Ds.

[Walter Soyka]

I do hope that this thread is being read by everyone on these forums who has argued with me that PCs are inferior because of driver compatibility issues…

In all seriousness, many thanks to all for sharing this information here! This stuff gets complicated fast, and it’s a big help to the community when people like Olof, Bret, and Eric post about their specific experiences.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Bret Williams]

yes. but on imac w/tbolt- so other than the bmd device, it’s pretty much all Apple. And adobe. So no worries about sonnet controllers and such. Although I do have an old Mac Pro across the room that I haven’t updated to FCP X. It is stuck on Lion as it’s a 2006 MacPro 1,1 with Radeon 5770 and basic sonnet tempo card to drive a Graid via esata. We’ll see how that goes.

[Paul Jay]

Windows and hardware component driver issues have not much to do with the fact that Matrox is slow when updating their drivers.

Matrox has a lot of driver issues on the Mac. Blackmagic and AJA almost never have.

In any case. No matter what platform you work with. If you work with 3th party software or hardware you should always check your stuff before updating anything.

And yes, Windows needs a lot of management. Time and money you win on OSX if you ask me.

[Eric Santiago]

Ahem there is quite a difference from updating a $300 piece of software on a Mac than a simple update from MS for Windows.
Heck Iven lost a drive due to some strange link I clicked on…honest it was by accident 🙂
The Mac will still run, Windows will just drop dead 😛
Sorry that’s just pent up anger with a few Dells at work.

[Geoff Addis]

MX02 Mini Max running without problems following this update. OSX 10.8.2

[Mitch Ives]

This is why I prefer AJA hardware. Everything works perfectly with 10.0.6 & 10.8.2. I’m a huge fan of Grant (going way back), but every little update seems to cause BMD hardware problems.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Bret Williams]

not the thunderbolt devices. I’ve had two and I don’t ever hesitate to update os or drivers.