Final Cut 6 and Mavericks

[Shane Ross]

FCP 6 won’t even install on Mountain Lion. I highly doubt it’ll install on Mavericks.

Shane
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[Jared Gordon]

Thanks, Shane. I’m not looking to install it. I already have it on my Lion machine. Just checking to see if it’ll still work after the upgrade.

[Shane Ross]

Why upgrade? Why mess with a solid working edit system?

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[Jared Gordon]

Mavericks supposedly brings better battery life. If I can have working FCS6 and better battery life, I’d like to at least consider the opportunity.

[Shane Ross]

I wouldn’t risk it. That’s 6 year old software that has been discontinued, so Apple isn’t taking any consideration for it when making new OS releases. It’s only looking at FCX.

Personally, I wouldn’t risk it.

Shane
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[Jared Gordon]

Quite so. I’m curious, all the same.

[Babylon Slim]

I advise against changing anything as well. The way that Mavericks “saves” or “extends” battery life is by putting applications “to sleep” when not “on screen” – editing apps. have to be “exempted” thru Get Info… The only way to install it would be to download rosetta — but even then. Why? These latest OS builds are meant for 64 bit apps. only. I haven’t jumped straight onto a new Mac OS ever. I wait until after the inevitable updates that come during the following year. But that is me.
(If you do it, please be sure to post back here with the results?)

[Jared Gordon]

I’ll wait to see if anyone else tries it. Thanks for the tips.

[Steve Mcgarrigle]

Hi Shane,

I have just updated my ageing 2009 Mac Book Pro to Mavericks.
As it goes i have an old install of Final Cut Studio 2 on there.
I am pleased to tell you that FCP6 does in fact work fine although some of the plug ins did not.
After updating and on first launching the application it would hang while attempting to load Boris Continuum Shaders making it then “Quit Suddenly” while still on the loading splash screen.
After uninstalling BCS plug ins however it all now works fine.
I haven’t tested it thoroughly as i don’t really use it anymore, however just for you and in the name of science i opened up a pre existing project, made a new sequence, set in and out points on some footage, dragged it to the timeline. Bladed it, trimmed it, added a cross dissolve, rendered some colour correction and exported a ProRes 422 Quicktime successfully, all of which is fairly conclusive i would say.

There you go!

Steve.

[Craig Alan]

Clone your drive to external drive and try it on external drive.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Camcorders: Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV30/40, Sony Z7U, VX2000, PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.