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Final Cut Studio 3 and Snow Leopard
Hi I am looking for information on compatibility with FCS3 and 10.6. I know FCS3 has been out for 9 months and 10.6 about 7. I would imagine all compatibility issues would be worked out by now.
That being said I have searched the forums and found what seems to be issues possibly with specific hardware here and there and issues when doing an upgrade instead of a clean install.
I need to verify for a customer that this software works well together (naturally i would assume Apple would have it smooth by now) and they will not have any issues by performing this upgrade. I have the option of doing some small scale testing in the work environment before cloning it to all their workstations but any feedback you veterans could provide would be most appreciated.
Thank you so much in advance for your thoughts.
-Mike Howard
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I still haven’t upgraded, although, I’ve got the disks. I’m not fixing what ain’t broke. I’ve heard FCS & SL play well together, but that there are still some software & hardware products that aren’t compatible. But I just saw a software product (I think from Noise Industries or SugarFX) that requires SL. So, the time may be coming for the upgrade.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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I’m using latest versions of everything,
OS: 10.6.2 FCP 7.0.1 etc, etc… (soon to be 7.0.2)
All running on a 2008 Mac Pro, 2.8Ghz, 16GB, and a BlackMagic Decklink card.
Very stable and reliable for my projects which span DV through various HD formats.
I run a very lean machine, no extra software, very few plugins.
The problems I do encounter invariably lead back to Motion. But that was the case in my previous 10.5.8 setup as well.
Of course, I aim just one man and his machine, your milage may vary.
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I, on the other hand, am running a machine clutter with nearly every possible application, on their for testing purposes. Well that’s not entirely true. That’s the MacBook Pro. I upgraded that to Snow Leopard. But I took the opportunity to do a nuke and pave. Put Snow Leopard on, then Cleanapp, then all my usual. FCS 3 is running just wonderfully. Even STP seems to run better on it that on the other two MacPros, which have FCS 3 but are still on Leopard. Final Cut and Color run just fine. STP not so much. It’s so buggy that it doesn’t run as well as STP2. I consider it a beta version.
The real issues of which I am aware were centered around p2, Canon 5D and other file based media and getting them to run natively or some such. We’re running with HDCAM and ProRes so I figured that it wouldn’t effect us, and it hasn’t.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Awesome, thanks for the feedback.
I think I’m going to go with the recommendation that we do the upgrade and just do a little in lab testing. Thanks again!
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I used the laptop as the test bed.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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