Snow Leopard installed

[Mark Lea]

I did the upgrade to Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, and it removed the QuicktimeMPEG2.component from System/Library/QuickTime (this is from an earlier FCS1 install). I went into my Leopard backup and just copied the component back to the proper location in Snow Leopard and all is well. I find it a bit strange that the component wasn’t left alone. I wonder if my install of FCS2 on a different machine would work in the same way.

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Lea] “I wonder if my install of FCS2 on a different machine would work in the same way.”

Mark,

It would be great if you could test that out and report back with your findings.

David Roth Weiss
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[Gustavo Mendes]

I have FCS 2 installed and, as of today, things are running perfectly fine. The OS is definitely faster, Quicktime seems way more responsive.

Example: on my MacBook Pro 2.4 4 GB connected to a Esata 4big Quadra with a Sonnet Tempo Pro/34 card I opened 2 1080P ProRes HQ Trailers at the same time with no dropped frames at all, something that wouldn’t happen on Quicktime 7, and CPU was around 65%….

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[Mark Lea]

David,

I’m unsure of when I’ll be able to install Snow Leopard on my production machine with FCS2 on it, but if/when that happens, I’ll make sure to post to this thread with the results.

I seem to remember having to do this same thing back when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. I did the clean install upgrade, and I had to copy the MPEG2 component back to the proper location, as it was removed on the install of Leopard. I’ve read that Snow Leopard’s upgrade is essentially the clean install option that was on older OS installs.

So, based on that, here’s my theory: Since my QuickTimeMPEG2.component was installed in /System/Library/QuickTime, it got overwritten by the default directories and files located on the Snow Leopard installer. Since the MPEG2 component isn’t included on the Snow Leopard install, it wasn’t included. I’d assume that if any other codec was installed in that location, it would be removed as well. But, since most codecs are installed in /Library/QuickTime/ or ~/Library/QuickTime/ codec loss on a system upgrade usually isn’t a problem.

So, if I go to work on Monday, and see that my production machine has the QuickTimeMPEG2.component installed in the /System/Library/QuickTime/ location, I can only assume that it’d be deleted if I install Snow Leopard. However, if the codec is installed somewhere else, like the /Library/QuickTime/ location, it’ll probably still be there when I install Snow Leopard, and there won’t be any issues.

[Scott Sheriff]

Just installed SL on an octo Xeon, 2.8GHz, 16GB, GeForce 8800 with FCS2, no capture card.
Installed OS on fresh 1 TB drive. All other drives were pulled until the install was finished.
Used Time Machine to install prefs and other files, but not applications.
Installed FCS2.
Checked for, and installed updates until there were no more. (twice)
Installed remaining non-Final Cut applications.
Re-calibrated the monitors.
I have been working a a feature length 1080i project, that is broken up into 9 sequences of approximately 10 minutes each and used this project to check FC.
Final Cut (6.0.6) opens and works normal, including FW log and capture.
All the other FCS2 applications open and work normal.
Exporting to Compressor works normal and sending that to DVD Studio Pro works normal too.
Opening existing Soundtrack projects is OK.
Sending a Multitrack project to Soundtrack is temperamental, and the return trip to a new Final Cut sequence very temperamental, but at least I eventually got it to work. Exporting to Final Cut wouldn’t work, unless Final Cut was already open.
So far most it seems like the Apple applications open a lot faster. FCS2 applications seem to open a little faster, but don’t run any faster.
All the non-Apple aps work fine, and may open a little faster.
I like the new Dock and Stacks behavior.
I’m going to put my old system drive back in, and revert back to Leopard for working on my project, but will probably switch over to SL, and FCS3 when its done since I’m collaborating with another person that is not going to upgrade.

[Nicholas Yardley]

FCS3, Snow Leopard installed. Had some oddly sized Pro-Rez clips created through MPEG Streamclip. Worked ok before install. But cutting with the Apple ProRez Sequence Preset (720×486), I got the red bar and tried to render. Got the “Codec not found” error message. Weird.

[Jason Scheer]

I’m having the same problem with mpg’s. I’m working on a video in which certain clips, which quicktime was able to support with OS 10.5, do not run on 10.6. Perhaps its a codec issue.