Migrating from Final Cut Pro 6 to which new version?

[Shane Ross]

Does Apple still sell SL?

Shane

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[Neil Orman]

Yes they’re still selling copies of Snow Leopard for like $30. Thanks again Shane.
Neil

[Kevin Patrick]

If you go with Premeire Pro …

You might want to look into getting an NVIDIA CUDA card. This provides GPU hardware acceleration for Premiere Pro. ATI based cards don’t.

I use the Quadro 4000. I use it in slave mode, no monitors, just used by PP. I also have an ATI 5770 for my displays and FCP X.

If you get one of these, make sure you get the one for the Mac. Different FW than the non-Mac one. Also, make sure you download and install the CUDA drivers from NVIDIA. Apple provides drivers for the card and it will work fine. But, if you don’t also install the CUDA drivers the GPU acceleration option in PP will be grayed out.

[Neil Orman]

Thanks Kevin, I’ll consider that. I’m so frustrated by what Apple’s done with this non-backwards-compatible thing that I’m almost considering switching, but at this point I’m trying desperately to find a reasonably priced copy of Final Cut Pro 7 that will allow me to easily finish my current FCP 6-created projects. And I just had one last question about that. If anyone’s ever bought or received software this way before, meaning not from the manufacturer, what are the most important things to receive in the transaction? I’m assuming you need at least the product CDs and the serial number? Is that right and is there anything else that’s important?
Much appreciated,
Neil

[Sal Sainvil jr]

Hi there,

If FCPX could open files from previous versions as far back as FCP6 without any issues then i would say get that regardless of its strangeness. But, from what I understand it cant (i could be wrong feel free to correct me if I am). So to access a FCP6 file, you have to get your hands on a copy of FCP 7 and open the file with that and then export it as XML which can then be imported into FCPX but only the cut video comes through so you’d have to then re-finalize what you had already finalized in FCP6? is that right folks? thats what i had learned while googling when i came across this same problem earlier this year( my info may most likely be out dated since last i researched this which was in the summer. so take it with a grain of salt).

we have 5 machines running FCP 6.0.6 on Snow leopard. When We added a 6th, we ran into this same compatibility issue. Cant install FCP6 and cant even copy it over. needless tos ay we havent upgraded anything. We have literally thousands of FCP6 files that all we have to do is open reconnect data and export. Why on earth would we want to buy any product that will force us to recreate all these files. makes no sense.

We are transitioning to Adobe Premiere however, not because its better per say or any and all of the reasons given, but simply because we are tired of Apple’s constant blocking of previous versions/products to force you to spend thousands of dollars on their “new” products every other year. we dont subscribe to the “buy our New APple product now in Blue! its the New RED!” mentality. It’s so aggravating.

We could go either way with this, as in FCPX or PP5.5 but seeing as how neither seems to resolves the problem of being able to open FPC6 files without some freaking time consuming backars workaround, the deciding factor becomes which company is less aggravating and that would be Adobe.

my two cents.