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Final Cut 6 and Mavericks
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Thanks for starting this post, Jared, and Steve for responding as you did. My experience has been that if 7 works, so does 6. The only issue is installing 6, for which you need Rosetta. But when my G5 died, and my only other machine was a 2011 Macbook Air, people here said it wouldn’t work. You can’t edit on a Macbook Air, that’s crazy! But guess what, I installed on my Air and kept on cutting. Then Mountain Lion came out and people said don’t upgrade. It won’t work. I proved them wrong once again. Now I’m cutting with a rMBP. I’m still not interested in FCP X. And even Apple wouldn’t sell me an upgrade to vs 7 – only the full $1000 discs. So I bought SL for the sake of Rosetta, and in a couple weeks time, will test it out on my wife’s laptop which is now running Mavericks and report back here. But I’m optimistic. I’ve already read on other forums that it performs just fine. Till then, I’ll be following this thread.
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Hi,
I also upgraded to 10.9 and FCP6 seems to be working fine up to now. It’s a pitty that there is still the image tearing in the Canvas – I was hoping this might be solved …
Radim
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What is this image tearing of which you speak?
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Hi Steve,
my English is very limited, so maybe I call it in a wrong way. Someone call it BANDING and it started with OSX 10.8. You can check this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1166075#1166101
Radim
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Wow, I’ve been putting up with this for so long I forgot it was a problem. I started a thread about it once, referring to my issue as screen tearing. I experienced it the same time I upgraded my computer (which came with lion) and changed displays, using a 27″ TBD. I thought it was the display and had some geniuses test it at the apple store but their display showed the same thing. I didn’t know it had anything to do with an OS X upgrade.
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Hi guys,
It appears I’m the only one here who can’t get FCP 6 to work with mavericks. I get the error message:
“Final Cut Pro cannot be opened because of a problem” (very helpful) and suggests I check with the developer to make sure Final Cut Pro works with this version of OS X. Seeing as you guys have managed to make it work I think we can be fairly confident it does.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Personally, I’m waiting to finish a project before upgrading to Mavericks. But what was your upgrade process? Did you install Mavericks over ML or do a clean install? If the latter, I assume you then installed Rosetta from SL so that you could install FCS 2? If the former, maybe consider doing the latter… But I’d wait and see what others say…
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I read on the internet that Mavericks had blocked Final Cut 5, which is the only one I own, but when getting a new computer I had to try it. And to my surprise, after migrating my old Snow Leopard settings into Mavericks, FC5 would load without problem. I didn’t even have to re-serial it.
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For whatever it’s worth, I can now add to this thread. I edit with a 2012 rMBP i7, 16 GBs. I didn’t upgrade to FCP 7 so when X came out, have pretty much been stuck with FCP 6.0.6. I recently just upgraded from ML to Mavericks and then reinstalled FCS 2 from scratch. Of course to do this, you’ll have to first install Rosetta if you have the SL disc on hand (I had to purchase it from Apple when it was still being offered). You’ll then discover that the online updates only take you to FCP 6.0.5. I had done a TM backup so just copied over the newest updates so that I’m now back to 6.0.6.
I’ve noticed a slight loss in stability from Lion to Mavericks but it’s fairly predictable, at least in my case. If I try to do too many undoes (command Z), the program will crash. So I am constantly Saving! Occasionally if do the 1 second scrubbing (shift/arrow key), especially backwards, the program will crash. And I’m sure there’s other things I can’t think of right now.
I was having issues with Motion 3 (or so I thought) and wanted to upgrade in hopes that that would solve the problem. That’s why I needed to upgrade to Mavericks. But I gotta say, my rMBP is running a lot better on Mavericks than it was on ML! The scrolling lag is gone (or at least hugely improved). And I like the Finder tabs. So yes, there’s a bit of trade off in upgrading to the newest OS with old software like FCP 6.0.6… but if you keep Saving your work, and can tolerate the occasional crash, you can still get the job done.
If I discover any other predictable issues, I’ll report back.
Chris
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Hi Christopher,
can you share the 6.0.6 App? I cannot find the update ANYWHERE, so I seem to be stuck on 6.0.5 -_-
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