My take on Final Cut 7 and Lion.

[Michael Gissing]

Never had to do it myself but i would search this forum for advice as I am sure it isn’t the first time this question has been raised.

Apple’s advice is –
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15216.html

But I have also heard people say here that Time Machine reverts may not be perfect for FCP.

[Jeremy Garchow]

While I think Michael is exactly right, I will offer a suggestion if you are already at 10.6.8 and want to refrain from reverting to 10.6.7

Apple has gone on record saying that FCP7 is going to be supported on Lion.

That being known, there has been some weirdities with 10.6.8 with audio and video hardware.

The fix? Set your drive to boot in 64 bit, which makes perfect sense as a tee up to Lion.

Apple provides explicit instructions on how to permanenty set your boot drive to 64bit if your computer supports it, which is easy to search for and find on the Internet.

Mr Gissing, as always, has solid advice.

[Richard Emerson]

Reading the Thread slightly confuses me but oh well, I wanted to know about the issues as I normally do Camera Work and some editing and have upgraded to tapeless media with MXF Files/Wrappers etc.

As I said I do some editing and use FCP 7.0.3 ( fcs3 )

And infact a new IMAC is due to arrive for said editing which will obviously be shipped with the Lion OS.
So in my case the Computer Upgrade is not to obtain Lion but to make the editing process with FCP 7 a better faster experience as the lighter specs in our Macs and Laptops warranted a Desktop Upgrade…

I would be greatful if peoples editing experiences with FCS3 on a new Imac with LION has indeed proved to be problematic and if so in what way..

Is a dual boot with Snow Leopard what people would advise?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts..

[Michael Gissing]

I haven’t seen any reports on clean installs of FCS3 and Lion on a new system to know how successful this might be. As Jeremy points out, Apple have said it will work. I presume you still have Snow Leopard disks so if it is fraught, you can blow away the shipped OS and start again with a clean install.

[Nick Meyers]

thanks, MIchael.

nick