final cut 7 on mac OS 10.12 Sierra.

[Warren Eig]

Add a second hard drive or partition the drive and use a dual boot system. Older OS for FCP 7 and newer OS for everything else.

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[Shane Ross]

What Warren said…I do this as I still find myself working on projects that originated in FCP 7. Just yesterday, in fact…

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[Rossella Emanuele]

Partitioning the hard drive seems my best option, many thanks

[Robert Withers]

Larry Jordan has also advised keeping “legacy” computers to run software that is perfectly lively but which the publisher has tried to kill. Are there advantages to partitioned hard drives over separate computers? Seven years is an eyeblink in human lives.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Michael Brown]

Hi Rossella, I too have stayed on Yosemite precisely for that reason. I never tried FCP 7 on Sierra, because the forums usually claimed it not run “dependably”. Since I don’t have your software issues, I don’t need to upgrade my OS, but thanks for the post, so I’ll know for future reference.

Michael from Hamburg.

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[Claude Lyneis]

While I long ago went with FCPX, I am trying to help a friend with a FCP7 legacy project. I still have FCP7 version 7.03 on my main hard drive. I am running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 on a mid 11 27″ mac. I dug out an old 7 project and after relinking, it seems to be up and running. I can play the sequences, view the browser, etc. Is there clarity on what will and won’t work in this configuration?

Thanks
Claude Lyneis

[Marten Berkman]

Hi Claude,

you were able to open FCP7 on Sierra? Thats amazing. I have a legacy machine on 10.7.5 that works great, but another machine was just upgraded to high sierra and FCP7 will not open on that. So I am arranging a downgrade, and curious what would be the highest operable version that I can downgrade to. If you can say how well your FCP7 works on Sierra, that would be very helpful.

thanks,

marten

[Robert Withers]

I had understood that the highest OS that would run FCP7 was 10.8.5 Mountain Lion. I’m keeping a machine in that OS to run FCP7 and Premiere CC 2013, which are fine for my editing needs.
Best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Marten Berkman]

Good to know, thanks Robert!

[Michael Brown]

Robert,

I can almost guarantee you that you can run 7 on Yosemite just fine. I do so on a 2015 27″ iMac with no glitches I can think of, even with multi-screen editing up to 9 sources (albeit in that case I break my video files down to ProRes Proxy for smooth playback). But I haven’t tried Sierra on it and I’m not about to. If need by, I’ll partition as well.

Thanks to all for the useful thread!

Michael Brown