Final Cut Pro 7 on a PowerPC

[Vince Sanchez]

First thing I did when I got my copy was pop the disc into one of our old G5s, hit install and it immediately told me: Intel needed to install, end of that.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
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OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Ben Pirouet]

So what’s the deal then? Even some of the new elements in FCS3 like the ‘Create Disc’ app that creates Blu-ray disks are ‘Universal’

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

A lot of times the installer will limit you however once the app is installed you can just drag it right into an older machine and launch it with no trouble

[Ben Pirouet]

If anyone can get to a G5 machine before me, Install the individual .PKG files of Final Cut Pro rather than using the main installer. That’ll bypass the system requirements test.

I’ll have a go myself tomorrow morning if no one else does.

[Jason Lyons]

Just raising the red flag an inch higher. My guess is that the benefits you seek in upgrading might just require those intel chips. Its probably a good thing to trust the installer when it says “I cant do it Captain”

Good luck.

[Baz Leffler]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Hack your best buddy into buying you a new mac?”

Maybe we might be able to download a pirated Intel Mac off the internet so we can use FCP 7?

Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[Zane Barker]

[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “A lot of times the installer will limit you however once the app is installed you can just drag it right into an older machine and launch it with no trouble “

You absolutely CANNOT do that with pro apps like FCS. FCS installs a LOT of components into the Operating system itself. Just as an example all the codecs that come with FCP are not contained on the application it self.

If you did move the apps themselves over the programs would not run properly at all.

Now Ian, you have made it quite clear that you really really want to run the new software on your old PPC Mac. And like so many people here have told you its just not going to work.

Ether stick with FCP 6 for a while longer or get a new Mac.

Apple cannot keep supporting old hardware forever, doing so limits the improvements that they can make in the new software.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Ben Pirouet]

I can confirm that FCP7 not only works on PowerPC, it works VERY well.

I’m going to write up a full report about this tonight when i get home, and i’m going to be testing the rest of the apps too, but having done a very quick test, all the FCS3 apps at least open without issue on PowerPC. FCP i’ve done more testing on and no issues so far, even with new issues and stuff you’d expect to screw up if it’s not supported.

What i will say so far is that i’ve been through all the components and install files of FCS3 and so far the only ‘Intel Only’ component i can find is the AVC Intra plugin. I kind of expected that.

As i said, full report when i’m at home tonight.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Can you describe how you got it to work on the PowerMac? Did you just throw the app on an external harddrive and then bring it to work or what?

[Ben Pirouet]

If you download the free app ‘Pacifist’ (search for it on Google), It will install the Final Cut Studio apps, including all the codecs and plugins etc exactly as the Apple Installer would do. It just ignores the System Requirements.

Before i did this though, i did manually look through all the packages to see what was Universal and what was Intel only, and like i said so far only AVC-Intra support is Intel Only it seems.

I’ll post some screenshots and some more details later.