Final Cut Studio 3 and Snow Leopard

[Walter Biscardi]

[lee pretious] “Don’t know what to say except FCS3 is Super Uber unstable in Snow Leopard, has anyone else found the same thing? Does anyone have any advice to share on the matter? “

How did you install Snow Leopard and FCS 3? Clean installs on everything?

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[Lee Pretious]

Do you know what? No, I didn’t.

I have literally just finished clean installs of both and it seems to be fine, in my impatience to get working I just upgraded both, Snow Leopard went on first then FCS3, needless to say, my system was a little confused by all this newness and gave me some major headache time!

I take it back Snow Leopard, your ok by me… Do wish however that Compressor 3.5 could utilize the whole Q-master multi core cluster processing on a Final Cut project… But as of yet, it can’t!

One thing I will say for FC3 though is that it totally fixed the problem of FC2 giving me a red “hardware failed to render” message caused by having 2 identical graphics cards… Thank you apple.

[Margus Voll]

There you go with upgrade.

Usually so major updates need clean install.

Just get spare drive and install there.
It is really risky business just to update production machine just like that.
You for sure get problems and down time.

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[Rob Alexander]

I was under the impression that Apple recommend NOT doing a clean install of Snow Leopard and doing an upgrade instead (haven’t been brave enough to take the plunge yet though!)

[Lee Pretious]

Well for me FCS3 and snow leopard were not being friends, I’ve completed successful clean installs of both now and it seems to have solved every problem I was having, at least for this user, a clean install worked wonders!

[David Roth weiss]

[lee pretious] “I’ve completed successful clean installs of both now and it seems to have solved every problem I was having, at least for this user, a clean install worked wonders!”

Yep!!! That really should come as no surprise. It’s just the way software works.

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