FCS2 & FCS3 on same OS: Please advise

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jason Diebler] “I know it’s recommended to clean install FCS3 on a freshly formatted system, but what are the costs of not going that route? “

From what I’ve seen, you risk instability which has been the case with every version of Studio / OS. Some folks on here say they have had no issues with an upgrade, but I would never recommend it.

[Jason Diebler] ” I’m willing to take the risk of adding FCS3 on top of a system w/ FCS2. “

You can’t. FCS3 will replace FCS2. It’s one or the other.

It takes less than a full day to do the full re-install. Make the time. If you have a desktop, simply purchase another internal hard drive and do the full install to that.

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[Shane Ross]

I second Walter’s recommendation. This way you have something to fall back on, if the FCP 7 install doesn’t work for some reason.

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[Jason Diebler]

Thank you, your advice is much appreciated… will wait for downtime to clean install.

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(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!)

[Nicole Haddock]

Tsk tsk Jason, didn’t you learn that clean installs are best at the NMC? 😉

To speed things up considerably, if you make disc images of the install discs on a drive (FCP, Adobe Suite, any other apps), the install flies. I think I did a machine with FCP, CS4, iWork, iLife, and then all the various little installs (Firefox, Cyberduck, Toast, etc) and the plugins in probably 1.5 hours versus probably 5 or so.

[Rich Rubasch]

Sorry guys, I disagree. First, clone your drive. Then rename all the FC Studio apps…name Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro 6 etc. Motion, soundtrack, Compressor, DVDSP all of them. Put the version number at the end.

Now do the install.

Bingo….both versions on the same Mac. I have a Powerbook with all versions on it since 4.5…running perfectly.

I also have two Dual G5 2.7s with FC 5, 6.0.3 and 6.0.6 all running perfectly.

I have an Intel MacPro with three versions on it as well.

I have never had an issue working this way. But I always clone my drive before the upgrade to be sure if something goes batty. Only time I have had to go back to a clone was after upgrading to Snow Leopard on one of my Intels. Two days and I went back.

So bah humbug boys…you can in fact run several versions of FCP and the rest on the same computer….and some times it comes in darn handy, and I have been doing it since Final Cut 2.0.

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[Jason Diebler]

Thanks for all the useful insights.

“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!)