Running Final Cut Pro on a Hackintosh

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

You need new friends.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Thax Clave] “You need new friends. “

Ditto. Dumb question.

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[Patrick Sheffield]

If your “friend” has to ask that question, he has no business fiddling around with Hackintoshes.

A Hackintosh is a hobbyist’s tinker-toy. Certainly not something to build a business on…

Patrick

[Zane Barker]

Headaches, cold sweats, and possibly a bypass surgery will follow any such attempt.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Howard Ferguson]

Thanks for your responses !

I use Final Cut on a MacBook Pro, booted from an external RAID.
It’s nice and portable, as I need my Final Cut computing to be.

My friend I mentioned doesn’t even use Final Cut.
He was just curious what it’s limits were, and I told him I’d ask this forum about it.
It’s more of a “science project” for him.

I’ve got 20 years worth of Macs sitting around here, most of them still in use for the specific tasks at which they excel.

Thanks again !
Howard Ferguson

[Eric Pautsch]

I tried it on mine and it works fine….haven’t done alot of testing though. This question is better suited for sites like https://www.videohelp.com

[Shane Ross]

I built a Hackintosh…and yes, I tried FCP on it. FAR from stable. I just wanted to try and see anyway. I wouldn’t do it professionally.

Shane

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[Rich Rubasch]

Here we go again. Ok, admittedly an odd question to be sure, but I recall the old Mac Clones and how long did you think it would be before someone found a way to load Leopard onto a basic PC framework (ie cheaper?)

And so our friend Howard asks here on the FC forum if anyone has had any experience running FCP on one of these boxes. It is worth asking because if a student wanted to learn FCP but had mostly PC software, a cheaper Hackintosh might be a decent option to learn both FCP and Vegas on a dual boot system.

Our first poster suggests new friends. Clever, but does anyone on the COW actually have any advice or know someone who has loaded FCP on one of these boxes? Wait, Walter is up next, maybe he has some ideas…

Nope, just spends his bandwidth and time adding that our friend Howard just asked a dumb question. Later, Howard has to explain his actual circumstance because he was actually looking for some advice on this topic…

C’mon guys….stop assuming every dang time that when someone asks a question about getting a clip off a DVD that they are trying to steal copyrighted material, and stop treating posters who have an unusual question, to be sure, like they are just another doofus looking for something for nothing.

We probably have to rip a clip off a DVD practically every day because it’s all the client has. Many times this is a show DVD and they want only one segment put onto another DVD etc.

Hackingtoshes seem to be here to stay and might, in good time, become a viable product for even you staunch professionals out there. You never know.

Can we try, just for a while to stop wasting posts just picking on the poster? Please post to be helpful, but cheeky comments are still fun and keep it light. It’s the “That’s a dumb question” posts we can all do without.

I thought there were no dumb questions, and Howard’s certainly was not.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Shane Ross]

That’s why I chimed in and said that I made a Hackitosh, loaded FCP on it and didn’t have good luck. Admittedly I chose one of the cheapest ones to make…it is a computer for my kids to abuse. So it really isn’t designed for video editing.

Shane

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[Patrick Sheffield]

The point of my post is this – If you have the technical knowledge to build and maintain a Hackintosh, you know the answer to “Can FCP run on a Hackintosh”.

You can’t build a hackintosh expecting a real Mac. Yes, it is every bit as powerful as a Mac, but I would ONLY EVER recommend it to a hobbyist. Unless you know your way around kexts and injectors and DSDT and com.apple.boot.plist and chmod, etc… this is not the place to spend a lot of money.

If you INSIST on doing building a Hackintosh, start small. You can build a simple setup for $250 – once you get that working and understand it, you can build your behemoth.

And for GODS SAKE, buy the OS… Apple deserves at least that.

Don’t get me wrong – I’ve built many hackintoshes, but they are NOT as reliable or as trouble free as my real Mac. Doesn’t mean I don’t like them. But if you price out an EXACTLY configured Mac and PC, you’ll find the Mac is a bargain.

An economical Hackintosh exists in an area that Apple doesn’t service – i.e. cheaper cases, less powerful CPUs, slower memory, fewer processors, etc.

Apple makes their hardware and the OS, so they can ensure there are no conflicts. If you want the true Mac experience, buy a mac. If you want a reasonable facsimile, and are willing to put in the time and effort, build a hack.

Patrick