Leopard and Final Cut CRASH

[Walter Biscardi]

[Danrnw] “So, you all are saying that somewhere Apple has specifically said,
“FCP or FCS2 is not compatible with Leopard”? Where is that exactly?”

Apple never posts anything like this. That’s why we have independent forums like Cow where professionals can tell other professionals the best advice on what to do with their professional systems that they are earning money on.

If you truly want to be bleeding edge and install everything that Apple releases the moment they release, be our guest. If you are earning money on your system and are working under deadlines, follow the advice that has been offered on here so many times.

With any new OS wait at least until Apple releases any related Studio updates. Apple is a consumer company, as long as the OS works with the consumer apps, that’s all that matters as far as the wide release of any OS and pretty much any other general updates they do.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Danrw, sorry you are so frustrated.

It can be maddening sometimes. As with any NLE, not just FInal CUt Pro, system updates, software updates, OS updates are always a crap shoot until the NLE company certifies a certain recipe of system requirements. Leopard wasn’t going to wait to delay release just so that Final Cut works on it. FInal CUt was developed before Leopard was the apple of Apple’s eye. So, it makes sense that since Final Cut was developed before Leopard that it would need an update, right? Most software is not ‘forward compatible’. All Apple development teams are shielded from each other to protect secrecy.

I am sure the Leopard updates will be here soon. In the mean time, you can either limp through until the updates or revert back to Tiger. It’s going to be a while before everything works on Leopard, it’s the way modern software works. They release to the masses, find out the problems from the early adopters, then fix them in a dot release. Adobe has not certified Leopard for their video applications, as I am sure Avid hasn’t yet either. Just because Apple owns the rights to Final CUt Pro and Leopard doesn’t mean that they are necessarily developing those hand in hand, side by side with all the same code writers, or even with the same interests in mind. I ask for your patience and in due time everything will run.

Jeremy