FCS 2 Upgrade: experiences, warnings, thoughts…

[Tom Wolsky]

You can’t use the prefs from a older version (not sure how you’d do that), but you can have, or could have in the past, multiple preferences for different versions in the same prefs folder. Each version would work to it’s own set of prefs.

All the best,

Tom

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[Sean Oneil]

[bbalser] ”
Walter, I’ve used FCP since 1.0, and no “upgrade” ever did this before. As a cert’d trainer, I contacted Apple, and they are looking into it. No, no “upgrade” ever did this before.”

Are you certain of that? I can’t remember what happened upgrading from 4.5 to 5. What I do know is that every single Blackmagic update (like 30 of them) since FCP 4 trashes your preferences. I keep my favorites and plugins backed up and I don’t rely on FCP Rescue. As far as regular preferences, it takes me about 20 seconds to go through them and change them to how I like it.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “What I do know is that every single Blackmagic update (like 30 of them) since FCP 4 trashes your preferences.”

Exactly the same as AJA. I think the capture cards need to flush out the prefs in order to re-set everything in both the app and their own drivers.

[Sean ONeil] “I keep my favorites and plugins backed up and I don’t rely on FCP Rescue.”

Yep, same here. Have never used FCP Rescue and really don’t see a need for it honestly. It’s not that difficult to reset your prefs and I personally think it’s better for people to know how to do that instead of relying on a third party script to do it for you.

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[Andy Mees]

seems hard to beleive Ben

just as the project file format changes with every release so does the preference file format. it has to for there are always new or modified preference options with every upgrade.

that plist files are structured using an open and extensible format does suggest that diferent versions of a plist may still be accesible by earlier or later versions of the application, but I have never know FCP to read them … that said, I much prefer the clean install route and reset my preferences by hand.

you might like to look at FCP Attic for storing and restoring your custom layouts etc

[Mitch Ives]

[walter biscardi] “All upgrades did this for me here. In fact, whenever I install a new AJA Kona driver, all Prefs are tossed as part of the install. “

Same here Walter. As you said, it’s always done that. Like you, we keep all our favorites in a separate project, so they don’t get lost…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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