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FCS 7 upgrade in the middle of projects
I know that ideally it would be good to not upgrade in the middle of a project, but I’ve got a yearly contract with TV episodes. There isn’t a time I’m not working on a project. I’m upgrading from FCP 6.5 or whatever the last update was. Is there any glitches or concerns I should have? Anything that I can do to avoid head-aches?
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Just the usual do a Clean Install of the OS and Studio. This is the first time we did an upgrade in the middle of a project. Feature documentary with about 200 hours of material. Did the upgrade mid stream after hearing that FCP 7 was the first version that was safe to upgrade mid-stream.
All three of our systems have been upgraded and on all three we did the clean install. Zero issues related to FCP or the Kona boards.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Be sure to clone your current drive before upgrading. Better still, install a fresh drive and do the new install to that. I’ve just finished doing just that with no issues.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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MAKE SURE YOUR ARE UP TO DATE ON FCP 7 AS WELL … I believe the new update puts you in 7.0.1.
I Have ran into 2 issues … but 7.0.1 fixed them.
1 – Stopped saving my project (great … had to look online to save it somewhere else)
2 – Captured footage but deleted the Reel and TC info … what fun.Good Luck.
Other than that FCP 7 has some nice little upgrade features … like Speed changing a clip.
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Based Freelancer
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I’d normally never do such a thing, but had to last month (to Snow Leopard and FCS3) and had no problems. Of course, did all of the usual backups etc. It was scary but smooth sailing.
Cheers,
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