Has Leopard been approved for FCPSuite2?

[David Roth weiss]

Steve,

Leopard is good to go, however, you’d be far better off cloning your present system drive and doing a clean install from scratch of both Leopard and FCP. That will most likely wind-up putting QT 7.4 on your system, but that only seems to affect Adobe products, such as AE.

For the record, I’ve been running Leopard for several weeks without a hitch and QT 7.4 with only one hitch, that being that my batch monitor in Compressor doesn’t show that its working, even though it actually is.

David

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[Ben Holmes]

Not that I’d recommend doing it on my tower systems, I upgraded to Leopard on my MBP after installing FCS2 (I only use the system at home and to evaluate). I just couldn’t be bothered to do a clean install on a non-critical computer.

I’ve had no problems at all.

Ben

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[Mark Palmos]

Steve, I have had terrible problems since moving to Leopard – and once you do it, its impossible to go back with the same projects.

Both AJA and Apple have replicated the Leopard-FCP-Motion Templates problem, but have not found the bug yet as it only happens on some systems, mine being one.

I have to use Motion as a 3rd party application, render 32 bit MOV’s and import them to FCP manually… very time consuming.

If you dont have that specific problem, i would say Leopard is fine, if you do, go back to Tiger before converting your projects to the new format.

Mark.

[Todd Reid]

There are so many variables that this is not really a fair question. Most everybody gets different results.

I recently got my MacPro octocore (ordered a few days before Leopard release), they told me it would come pre-installed with Leopard. After reading all the horror stories, I was very nervous. I finally got all the pieces for my edit suite and in a frenzy loaded all my software.
Then I realized that Leopard didnt look any different than Tiger. Well, it wasn’t pre-installed, but they had the install disk included, so I slapped it on. Ran a bunch of test and got very unstable results. Many issues including locking up. So since it was a new machine, no need to back up, I did a erase and install of Leopard, then leapfrogging with repair permissions, and system updates. Now everything is rock solid, including QT7.4 (my Batch monitor works fine).

Practice safe upgrading-clone-repair-clean install-repair-system update (be educated on this, don’t automatically update everything).
I have found that regularly repairing permissions, and every other month or so, I’ll boot into safe mode and repair permissions, seems to keep my mac happy.

[Rennie Klymyk]

[todd reid] ” I did a erase and install of Leopard”

Don’t you mean Tiger? As I’m reading it, you started with Leopard and went back to Tiger.

“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.

[Todd Reid]

no, I reinstalled Leopard.
I assumed that cause they told me it would come pre-installed, that it would. No it came with Tiger on it. I slapped FCS2 on it, then realized that I was in Tiger. I installed Leopard on top, it was really unstable. so I did a clean instal of Leopard and now things are rock solid.

[David Roth weiss]

[todd reid] “Practice safe upgrading-clone-repair-clean install-repair-system update (be educated on this, don’t automatically update everything).”

Don’t take Todd’s final statemnet the wrong way, because systems running either Leopard or FCP that aren’t up to date will be very unstable.

When installing Leopard or when bringing a new computer home with Leopard installed, update the OS using Apple Software Update and keep updating until you get a message saying that you are “up to date.”

Then, after installing FCP, keep updating until you get the up to date message.

David

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[Rennie Klymyk]

Cool, thanks for explaining.

“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.

[Greg Jones]

I would avoid Leopard at all costs. I did a clean upgrade to Leopard. Final Cut pro would not open my old projects. I would actually get an error stating ‘This project is too new’. I am in the process now of reinstalling Tiger from Scratch. I’m pretty much wasting my entire day.

Greg Jones
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Greg Jones] “I am in the process now of reinstalling Tiger from Scratch. I’m pretty much wasting my entire day.”

Definitely need to Clone your system or better yet, install Leopard on a separate hard drive on your system. Then you only lose a few minutes to maybe a few hours.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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