Parallels on Sierra to install older OS for FCP 7 on MBP?

[Mickey Power]

Almost all of my work is with Premiere now on my Mac Pro 3.33ghz 12 core machine running 10.116 El Capitan.

I have a couple of projects coming up that build on old FCP7 projects.

There’s a spare drive in the Mac Pro with Snow Leopard installed and all the old Final Cut Studios apps. I’m not sure I can re-boot in it since last year I installed a new graphics card, Nvidia GTX 980 ti which is said by macvidcards to run only on 10.10.5 and newer. If I ever re-booted to it, I assume I wouldn’t get a picture right? And if I couldn’t get a picture I wouldn’t be able to boot back to my main system?

El capitan does open FCP7 but it often crashes, esp with any kind of layering and filters.

Mickey

[John Rofrano]

[Mickey Power] “If I ever re-booted to it, I assume I wouldn’t get a picture right? And if I couldn’t get a picture I wouldn’t be able to boot back to my main system?”

I assume you do not get a boot screen with the Nvidia GTX 980 ti card so you would have to designate Snow Leopard as the boot drive and then could get stuck with no screen when there are no graphics drivers to load. I’m afraid this is correct.

Does your recovery partition work? When you boot and hold down Command+R are you taken to the recovery screen? If so, then that might be an option to reset the boot drive. This is why I stayed with Apple compatible graphics cards. Not having a boot screen leaves you little options for having multiple boot partitions like I have.

You can have dual graphics cards. Maybe you could pick up an older card that is compatible with Snow Leopard so that you can still use it?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Warren Heaton]

A quick update to my prior post:

I have been able to get DVD Studio Pro and Soundtrack Pro to run on the Parallels Desktop virtual macOS 10.7.5 machine by editing the minsys.plist file for each application in TextEdit as follows:

Locating this line and changing YES to NO:

key>AELMinimumQuartzExtremeCapable

block
YES

Locating this line and changing 128 to 0:

AELMinimumVRAM

block
128

After making these changes, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Soundtrack Pro 3 will launch seem to work as expected. Although, I haven’t gotten as far as doing a layout to DDP2 in DVD Studio Pro yet. For the two to three times a year that I need to deliver a DVD-Video title for replication, it might be worth not having to restart to an older macOS. I’m not sure.

The same edits can be made for Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4 and Compressor 3.5 minsys.plist files; however, FCP7 and Motion will quit almost immediately and Compressor will not display the Batch as expected.

[John Rofrano]

Thanks for those hacks. I may try them myself. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com