MacOs Snow Leopard FCP6 – wtf?

[Shane Ross]

If you need FCP 6 to work, you need to keep it on that older OS. You have to. Upgrade and things break, because the OS doesn’t support the old software. But if you need other apps that only work on later OS versions…then you have two options.

1) separate computers for FCP 6 and everthing else. I have a MacPro (2008) that I keep JUST for FCP 7, and Avid Symphony. And I don’t update that OS. I DO have a separate drive that has a later OS, when I was running RESOLVE on it, but now I have a new computer for that.

2) Separate hard drives or separate partitions on one drive…so one running the OLD OS and FCP, and the other running a newer OS for everything else.

[Len Wasson] ” and I haven’t upgraded to FCP v7 because, well, it’s expensive damn it!”

FCP 7 was discontinued over 6 years ago. I’m sure you can find it for $200 on ebay or something. But it too can’t go beyond 10.6.8…well, it can. 10.6.8 was the last supported OS. The last one that everything works with is 10.8. Go to10.9 and Compressor breaks, Motion, Color…. So even if you got FCP 7, you couldn’t go to far in the OS versions.

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[Len Wasson]

great info – thanks!

I didn’t know that about FCP7 since I’m not using it – can’t believe I might have to cave and go to X, wow. sooner or later, it had to happen, I suppose.

I do also use Avid Media Composer but haven’t run into the same issues.

had considered partitioning in the past but have never done it for whatever reason.

I do have Premiere in Adobe 6 but am not on the cloud and am fearful if I start using it, I’ll be forced to at some point.

thanks again – my options are a lot more clear now –

[Len Wasson]

oh please! I’d love not to have to change anything – everything has been fine for me at home – it’s the internet apps that are bugging out! did you miss this paragraph in my original post?

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I’ve checked for other browsers, even tho I’ve used FF since it first came out (really) and don’t want to change.

don’t see as I have much choice –

[Mark Suszko]

You are one of those people that won’t just yank off the bandage in one go… you have to slowwwllly peel it off. I get it. I’m like that on some things.

You can get a swell 20 or 27 inch used/refurbed imac with the latest software on it for about $300-$700 from OWC, comes with a warranty and everything. Run all your other apps on that, leave this system alone and use it just for editing. Put FCPX and new Motion on the new system, and dabble with it in your leisure time.

[Len Wasson]

Leisure time??? what leisure time??

and no, I always rip that bandage off – so you got 2 strikes there – care to go for 3?? ha!

oops – forgot – no more space for computers – I have 2 desks already – my workstation has 2 monitors, a 21 and a 22, it’s crowded – the other one has my notebook and a photo scanner, no room there either – so it’s not an option to get a 4th computer (yeah, I still have a 3rd 10″ windows machine I never use)

I’m thinking about doing a partition on my iMac, which is my editing workstation. I’ve never partitioned before, much less to run 2 dif operating systems and someone else said – just run a legacy version on one of them

but how would that work, the partition aspect? am I going to be logging in and out to diff systems?

If need be, I can go on over to another forum – no problem – let me know –

[Steve Mcgarrigle]

I have a copy of FCP 6.0.6 that I can confirm works just fine on Sierra 10.12.1.
I have absolutely no interest in using it anymore though as it really does feel old, slow and clunky compared to FCPX or PP.

[Len Wasson]

hmm…. so you’re saying that whatever kept it from working in earlier Mac Os updates post-Snow Leopard, now no longer effects FCP v 6?

ok.

got it.

[Christopher Mcdonell]

I’ve been editing with 6.0.6 on El Capitan 6 days/week for the last 6 months straight. The earlier versions of Motion and Compressor are incompatible so just have to get the new versions and say goodbye to round-tripping. The colour dropper doesn’t work when using the various filters and I get random crashes here and there. I have auto-save set for every 20 minutes. Other than that, works just fine.

My specs: FCP 6.0.6, El Capitan, rMBP 15″ i7 2.6 GHz, 16 GB RAM

[Len Wasson]

[Christopher McDonell] “I’ve been editing with 6.0.6 on El Capitan 6 days/week for the last 6 months straight. The earlier versions of Motion and Compressor are incompatible so just have to get the new versions and say goodbye to round-tripping. The colour dropper doesn’t work when using the various filters and I get random crashes here and there. I have auto-save set for every 20 minutes. Other than that, works just fine.”

thanks for this info – I’ve decided to go ahead and update my os, as it’s just time, period. I figure I’ll have to learn Premiere, since I have it in CS6 (not cloud) but would like to keep my FCP around because it’s just so easy, fast and concise.

Thanks again. will post an update at some point.