install adice on FCS 2 in an ACADEMIC environment

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install adice on FCS 2 in an ACADEMIC environment

Posted by Todd George on June 13, 2007 at 2:50 pm

Hello Everyone

hope the summer finds each of you well

Ok, I admit that I only quickly scanned the last few weeks worth of posts so I do not know if this particular question has been asked so I am not trying to double post intentionally

anyway

I am here at a university in Ohio where I shoot video for use in the classroom, I have a small little mac outfit (1 G5 desktop, 2 imacs and another imac on the way, all machines are up to date on OS related software) anway I currently run seperat seats (licenses) of FCS on each of these machines (these are the academic version, so when you purchase them you get a full install not an upgrade)

Just so you know I have used Final Cut since ver 1.25 so I am very used to the “process” of doing a clean install (OS and all) on my machines prior to installing a final cut upgrade

However, I recently attended an Apple trade show for academic users and the gentleman doing the presentation actually said that you do not need to do a clean install in order to install FCS 2 he claims it will simple install the new shiny bits right into the existing FCS (now granted he said it in a differnt way but you get the idea)

so bottom line, my question is for those of you in academic situations (labs, etc) that are using the ACADEMIC version (which is the EXACT same version as the retail, EXCEPT you don’t get an upgrade you get a full install disc) how are you installing the new software, are you just putting it into the drive, clicking the check boxes and letting it go ?

Man this is one time when a Phillip Hodgetts (sorry if I butchered his last name) how to upgrade the right way article would be handy)

thanks all for your help
take care

Todd George
Instructional Media Services
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH 44118

Tom Wolsky replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Michael Sacci
June 13, 2007 at 3:25 pm

you should also know that there is no difference in upgrade and full version disc. only the installer program acts differently depending on what serial number is entered. With the upgrade serial number the installer looks for perviously installed software, if it doesn’t find it it ask for the previous serial number and does a full install. Academic and NFR serial numbers (and that is the only difference) just will not give you a valid upgrade path. And this is only to limit the life of academic versions not to limit the program in any way.

While I do not have Academic versions I did Upgrade three systems to FCS (2) as new installs and (1) as an upgrade, both ways work fine.

When you install your FCS2 it will only ask for the new serial number and it would install FCS and remove FCS1 (or whatever version you have).
Tom Wolsky
June 14, 2007 at 6:30 am

I just did it as an installation on most of the computers. For drive space reasons I had to clean erase and reconfigure on a couple of machines I did. I changed the name of the existing application to FCP5.1.4 so it wasn’t overwritten and I could still go back to it for some projects. When we upgrade to Leopard we will do a clean erase of the systems.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

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