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Final Cut Pro 7 on a PowerPC
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Well, I know that they didn’t test the software on PowerPCs. And they made no effort to make the features work on PPCs…most of the stuff might just be leftover from the crossgrade code. They designed the software and the new features with Intel machines in mind, because they are looking ahead at Snow Leopard.
Oh ok i’ll take your word for that then.
Like i said, i would never recommend that anyone specifically purchases FCS3 just for a PowerPC machine, but if you’ve got the software already, you may as well test run it on a PowerPC machine to see it works, which for me it clearly does and does everything i want it to.
This is a big deal for me, it saves us a lot of money in the medium term. So i’m keeping FCS3 on our PowerPC machines until such time as i start encountering show-stopping problems with it.
An update to FCS will probably break it eventually. Like you said, Apple won’t support it, so for major production houses, this is not a good idea to persue. But we’re in Education, we can afford to test these things and hope that they work. We can’t afford machine replacements though, ha 🙂
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Also why would there be a 2ghz limit on ppc if they had not planned for ppc?
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[Ben Pirouet] “We have 30 Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5ghz machines at work which are more than capable, and if Final Cut Studio 3 works on PowerPC machines”
Do you really want to risk doing a hack install on that many computers. When things go south because you did not follow the system requirements you are going to have one BIG massive migraine on your shoulders. And of course Apple will be no help to you because you didn’t pay attention to the system requirements and ran a hack so you could install.
[Ben Pirouet] “Anyway I’m not even hacking the software itself”
Its still a hack, a hack is anything that makes software do something that it would not normally do. FCS3 by it self will not install on a PPC machine so you are hacking the install.
I gather you work at a educational facility. Do you really want the faculty and students all mad at you because the systems all stopped working because you hacked the install of some software that should not be running on those machines.
Play it safe, save yourself a MASSIVE headache and ether stick with FCS2 or get new Intel machines.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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It’s obviously a conspiracy. The can be no other explanation.
Beam me up Scotty!
Thanks,
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[Ben Pirouet] “As long as FCS3 works on both Leopard and Snow Leopard, it doesn’t matter if our Intel machines are upgraded to SL, and our PowerPC machines are kept on Leopard, we just want to be able to transfer FCP7 projects between PowerPC and Intel machines”
Not necessarily…there’ll likely be a point update for leapord users…which would put your machines on different versions of software. If memory serves me correctly…even the point updates can screw you over sharing projects.
But…the most important thing about running FCS 3 on an intel is that it’s NOT SUPPORTED… that doesn’t mean it won’t work or you can’t do it. It just means Apple does not support it so you can’t get any apple help if you run into trouble.
-mattyc
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Way to go Ben, it’s refreshing to see someone “thinking outside the box”!
I’ve been using FCP since version 1 on a G3 but I try to skip upgrades and just buy every other one. I’m not a full time editor, I’m a one man band who shoots and edits. I’ve been living with fcs1 on a dual 2GHZ up to now. Wouldn’t you know FCP6 and FCS2 would be the ones I’d be trying to skip:( . My next computer will be a lap top so I can’t afford to replace my PPC too. I’ll likely give this a try.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Can you please confirm the deal with all of the other apps. We need to know how stable everything else is and if the features work.
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the reason to have it run on G-5
1 – so all your Final Cut seats are the same version — exchanging newer files (on your intel FCS3) with older versions of Final Cut won’t work.
2 – saving dough on upgrading a bunch of perfectly working G-5 computers
if it works without any problems – why not do it?
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[Andy Field] ”
if it works without any problems – why not do it?”That’ the rub. Since Apple didn’t test on PPCs (G5), who’s to say it will work with no problems?
Shane
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If we are just throwing out crazy ideas… (based only on the fact it wasn’t tested on G5’s)
Who’s to say it wont run with LESS problems compared to FCS2 when it WAS officially supported.
Motion has had bugs all over the place for years, I am tempted to try FCS3 on my Quad G5 just to see i how it compares. It might be less buggy, no way of knowing if I don’t give it a try. wheres the harm in finding out?I feel sorry for the Apple staff who didn’t have any G5’s hanging round to test on anymore, G5’s are like, awesome. they are friends for life. don;t let anyone tell you different…
when I found out the apparent ‘fact’ that FCS3 was intel only I felt like Apple had killed a member of my family: RIP QUAD CORE G5 2005-2009
But maybe there is hope after all…
I’ve never got any form of ‘support’ from apple when using the ‘supported’ hardware/software combination anyway what difference will there be now? try and understand for some people
investing in a system like a G5 is not something they planned to have to re-do only a few years later
due to apple building intel in secret for 5 years…I have access to a macbook pro and mac pro here in my home office thanks to my partners excellent taste in her own Hardware, but If my Quad G5 can run FCS3, and the project files between these machines could talk to one another… why not let it continue to live?
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