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Final Cut Studio 3 Upgrade Installation
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[Christopher Targia] “Also, I can’t seemed to find a serial number with my OSX Disk, do I need one?”
You will need it if you’re doing a ground-up installation. If it’s the OS that came installed on your computer Apple will be able to help you if you give them the serial number on label on the back of your computer.
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[Christopher Targia] “Also, I can’t seemed to find a serial number with my OSX Disk, do I need one?”
The OS doesn’t have one to my knowledge. Just looked at my Snow Leopard boxes and there are no serial numbers on there…..
I know I’ve never entered a serial number for an OS install. FCP yes, OS no.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Not sure if I would recommend Snow Leopard right now. No major advantages.
We cloned the drive, renamed all our existing FC Studio apps with their version number and installed FCS3. All is well. Also updated the Kona drivers etc.
I have never, and I mean never, have ever, and I mean ever, did a clean install of the Operating system before installing Final Cut Studio. For goodness sakes Apple writes all this stuff…and they don’t recommend it!
How is your system running now? If great, clone your drive and install away. I only rename my apps so I can still open FC 6 on the same computer as 7. Look in the Library folders….Apple does not remove previous versions of program files from the extensions and receipts folders.
So if you have a solid running system I say clone it and install it and get back to work.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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i just did a from the ground install of Snow Leopard this weekend. I really think that my Octocore really does seem to rum faster. I hope that’s true and not just perception. Only problem I had was the LaCie drivers for my ESATA card. System kept having kernal panics until I went to chipset makers website and downloaded month old drivers…..everything runs beautifully.
John 3:16
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Yes Rich, you’re absolutely correct, re-installing the OS is very time consuming and in many, if not most cases, is absolutely unnecessary –
However …
If, on the other hand, you ARE one of those other cases, which are not infrequent, where after installing a totally new version of FCP you’re encountering all sorts of bizarre bugs; and after spending many hours trying to troubleshoot these problems, that often arise, as luck would have it, in the middle of an editing session under tight deadlines, with clients in the room, you post a message of help on the COW, you will be told, in no uncertain terms and a note of condescension to do a FRESH INSTALL, which would have been a lot quicker and a lot lest costly to do in the first place.
Yes, it’s possible to go through life without fire insurance on your house, and it’s a sound financial idea, as long as you know for a fact that your house isn’t going to burn down. I say pay the fee, sleep at nite.
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What Rich and Joel said…
The only problems I have ever had with upgrade installs are older 3rd party filters and hardware drivers. Knowing that, you just have to go in prepared by making a system clone on another drive before jumping in. Then you are covered either way…Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Nehalem Octocore 12 GB Ram, Nvidia card, MBP, MXO, MXO2 mini, Windows Vista Adobe Studio CS4, Vegas 9.0, Lightwave 9.6, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 7, Continuum 6, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects -
My point is I have never had these issues. And I would not blame a FCP install for major performance issues. It’s usually elsewhere. At least for me.
Apple writes the OS and FCS. I’d think it odd that they recommend reinstalling the OS before installing an upgrade of a 2009 piece of PRO software.
I wish the advice given here was a bit more reasonable. Like clone your drive, install the software and test. That’s one hour. Doesn’t work? Pop in the other drive and movie on. My guess. All will be well and you’ll get more done anyway.
I’ve been working under deadlines with four edit suites for 9 years and have never installed the OS before a software upgrade, Mac or PC. Just bad advice in my opinion.
Oh, changing your oil in the car…better be safe and replace all the rings and injectors….you never know.
That’s how it sounds to me.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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Hi,
Is it possible to run FCS 2 and FCS 3 applications on the same mac? If yes, how? Should I install it on different drives? in different user profiles? I’m working on a Mac OS x 10.74( with 2.2 Ghz, intel core i7 processor, 4GB memory).
Assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Karina
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