FCS 3 on a G5

[Alan Okey]

[Joseph Tyndall] “It’s another case that Apple is artificially locking out systems – one can only assume so users have to upgrade.”

Yes, one must assume that it’s a sinister plot by big, bad Apple to bilk unsuspecting customers out of their hard-earned cash. There can be no other explanation.

[Gary Adcock]

[Joseph Tyndall] “It has been confirmed by users that Final Cut 7, Motion and all do indeed work perfectly on a 2ghz or greater G5.
By simply using “pacifist” to install the application – bypassing Apple’s hardware check allows the
software to install. “

this is really bad advice- you get to answer all of the FCP7 on G5 questions then- the ones on WHY it does not work, why its got no realtime, why doesn’t it render faster.

Too bad they will not get some of the best features on the new apps- or how they cannot get ProRes4444 to playback properly,

note that playing back FCP7 on a G5 hardware negates all of the RTX functionality with anything other than DV25 footage so you might as well go back to FCP 4.

Oh and forget about new versions of Photoshop or AE- they will be intel only also.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflow for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

[Larry Asbell]

While most of CS4 including AE requires Intel, Photoshop CS4 runs on a G5. No trick needed. Right there in Adobe’s requirements.

[Dan Freshman]

Hello,

I have just done a fresh install of final cut studio 3 with pacifist. However, the program will not launch after all packages have been installed. I receive an error message after final cut unexpectantly quits:

Process: Final Cut Pro [794]
Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: FCPApp-906181654~22
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [130]

Interval Since Last Report: 142 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2010-02-27 16:56:56.632 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: F2735926-CF71-49A6-9CAF-CBE82AF568D0

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000008fe0105c
Crashed Thread: 0

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _kPrivateTundraFileWritingOptionsKey_DontValidateTimeCodeWhenWriting
Referenced from: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/MIO.framework/Versions/A/MIO
Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate

Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks for the help and all advice in this thread.
dan