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How to revert to FCP 4? >>>SINCERE EMERGENCY
Hello all. I’m in a pinch and need some advice on how to revert my FCP instal to version 4. I lost my dual 2 and have sent it out to be repaired but I have a project that needs to be in the clients hand by Friday. I installed FCP 4 to Mac OS X 10.4.3 and then used my upgrade package to slide over to FCP 5…and my alternative system is a dual 500gHz….which sadly will not run FCP 5. I’ve done everything I can think of to go back in time, but nothing seems to allow me to reinstall FCP 4. FCP 4 ran…not well, but it does allow for work to move forward on this system…but I need to move now.
I’m in DIRE need.
Can anyone show my the way?
Michael Munkittrick
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6 Replies
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Nothing. Gotta start from scratch. Sorry. I know it sucks. OSX’s only major flaw is the lack of a managable way to uninstall software.
Sean
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I was afraid of that. Is there any hope of saving my settings?
Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA -
You mean move your preferences from FCP 5 and move it to FCP 4? No, I don’t think that will work and I wouldn’t try it even it it could. Honestly, there aren’t exactly a lot of settings for FCP. It’ll take you 5 minutes to set them again.
Sean
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Under the circumstances I’d rent a FCP 5 system and be off to the races. Take the hit and get the client taken care of.
Playing with versions and such can take a lot of troubleshooting and valuable time.
– Rick
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Rick Dolishny
rdolishny@hotmail.com
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Thanks for the reply. No, I am not too worried about resetting or rebuilding the preferences for FCP, but I thought that maybe if I saved the contents of my add-on stuff, like plugins and title templates that I’d save a stitch or two. Considering that I built most of the templates in FCP4 I kind of assumed that they’d work retroactively….oh well.
Thanks again,
Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA -
Yep. Just got back from the Apple Shop in Tampa with a shiny new G5 and an Apple service guy installed all of my software for me! Wow, that was cool. Obviously this guy has done this at least once befoe but he installed my OS disk with all of my toys (which aren’t all that many, but are a pain in the butt to do when you’re on a deadline) in 1 hour flat!
Thanks again,
Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA
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