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Final Cut will crash if airport card is dead? Is this true?
I’m a Premiere user, but am thinking about switching to Final Cut Pro, and I’ve been surfing forums doing some researching about it, and I came across some posts (I’ve lost the links now, or I’d post to that forum) where a couple people said lightning zapped their airport cards and suddenly Final Cut stopped working.
The theory was that it checks the serial on the airport card or some such thing, and will crash on launch if it can’t see your card. Is this true? Because I’ve got a computer with a dead card, and it seems ridiculous that I’d need to buy a new one just so I can use Final Cut. That computer never connects to the net, I use a PC for everything I do online.
If this is true, could I buy one of those cheap USB dongle thingies instead? Or does it need a true Apple branded product?
Oh, and on a side note, will it run with 10.5.2? Because back to the whole no net issue, I can’t update to 10.5.6.
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Hi Jean,
I never heard of that with the Airport card.
I know that the “Ethernet ID” of your computer is used for some software to identify your MAC.
This is used to avoid piracy.
I really don’t know but I think that FC 5.0 have been running in G3 and G4’s from before the Airport card invention.
rafael -
What’s an “Ethernet ID”? If the computer is getting that ID from a piece of hardware, it would make sense that a dead airport card or no card would fail to provide that ID. What if you need to replace that part, would this mean needing to reinstall and register again? It just seems silly. Why can’t it check the main computer serial number? And the horror stories all seemed to be about Final Cut 6, not any earlier versions.
Maybe I’m being overly paranoid, but we once had the processor die on a G5 (was under warranty and Apple replaced it), but all our Adobe software no longer worked, claiming we had it activated on too many computers. It took several re-installs and about three hours on the phone with Adobe tech support (mainly on hold or being indirectly accused of trying to pirate the software) to get that situation resolved.
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[Jean Carey] “Maybe I’m being overly paranoid”
Relax Jean.
An Airport card is not in the list of required hardware to run FC.
rafael -
Okay, thanks. Hopefully all will be fine and I can just stick in a USB dongle for anytime I need to run software updates and not worry about airport. Because you’re right, I can’t find anywhere that says an airport card is needed, so I guess the ethernet ID comes from some other part.
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