Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy I am installing new SSD for my MAC Pro Question on Best OS for final Cut Suite 7.03

  • I am installing new SSD for my MAC Pro Question on Best OS for final Cut Suite 7.03

    Posted by Don Cobble on May 4, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    I have been running final cut on Leopard and am now going to put in a new OS HD – an SSD. I own but never used Snow Leopard was afraid to take a chance with Final Cut. Now that I am going to do a clean install what OS is the best. Leopard – Snow Leopard – or even Lion.

    I have an older MAC pro 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Core Xeon 13GB Ram.

    Thank You
    Don

    PC
    I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
    Win 7 Pro 64bit OS
    PNY Quadro 4000

    3-4 TB HD
    Vegas 10 64bit & Vegas 11 64Bit & Vegas 12 & Adobe Production Premium CS5.5.2 & Avid Media Composer 5.5

    Camera
    Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

    Don Cobble replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Neil Patience

    May 4, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Hi Don (posted this in FCP forum too)

    I have FCP 7.03 running on an SSD on my MAC PRO which is older than your model. I run it on Lion without any issue. I also run Lion on a new i7 Macbook Pro
    with FCP 7.03 also on an SSD. It takes about 10 secs to boot from cold.
    Many here have successfully used Mountain Lion – there are quite a few posts on that. A few have reported issues on ML but often turns out they did not do a clean install.

    Certainly Lion will give you no issues I am happy to recommend that. (Being 64bit some apps are able to use more ram and run more quickly however sadly that does not apply to FCP 7 as its 32 bit)

    best wishes
    Neil
    http://www.patience.tv

    8 Core MacPro, Kona 3, Tangent Wave, Mackie Universal Symphony 6.5 FCP7
    i7 2.7 Gig MBP (non retina) 16Gigs Ram Blackmagic Monitor Mini Symphony 6.5 FCP7

  • Don Cobble

    May 5, 2013 at 12:58 am

    Sir Neil – I had posted here before and got no reply so tried the other one so I could get started sooner rather than later.
    Thanks Again
    don

    PC
    I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
    Win 7 Pro 64bit OS
    PNY Quadro 4000

    3-4 TB HD
    Vegas 10 64bit & Vegas 11 64Bit & Vegas 12 & Adobe Production Premium CS5.5.2 & Avid Media Composer 5.5

    Camera
    Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy