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Student Saw FCP Running On Windows?????
A student of mine swears that her boyfriend (a computer geek) and an Apple employee were able to launch FCP on a window operating system. Please advise.
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You can run OSX (and therefore MAYBE FCP) on a PC – using a so-called Hackintosh. This has been an open-source project since Apple switched to Intel Macs, and many people have achieved it. I’d have to ask, what’s the point of running pro software on an unqualified and unsupported computer? Nice project for a student maybe. Can you run FCP in Windows? No.
Ben
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[Patrick Morrow] “Please advise.”
doubtful but Final Cut was originally a Windows product from Macromedia.
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That student is a LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!
Seriously though, as Ben said, it might have been a PC box, but it must have been running the MacOS in order for FCP to work. I have one of these so called “Hackintoshe” that Ben mentioned…that me and my daughters built by the way…and I did test to see if FCP would run on it. It did.
But my girls use iMovie…they are a bit lost with FCP…all being under 10 years of age and all.
Shane
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It’s complete bullshit. It would require an incredible amount of time, money, and other resources (like the FCP source code) to compile it for a different operating system.
And if it did happen, it would be all over the blogosphere.
If someone had it running on BSD Unix, that would be a little more believable.
Sean
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well, your student’s boyfriend (the computer geek Apple employee) may be working in the pro apps division or perhaps a special projects division where they maintain windows compatible builds of the software (just as they always maintained intel compatible builds of the OS)
… but you should advise your student to warn her boyfriend to keep shtum if he want’s to keep his double-oh status at Apple !
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[Andy Mees] “well, your student’s boyfriend (the computer geek Apple employee) may be working in the pro apps division or perhaps a special projects division where they maintain windows compatible builds of the software (just as they always maintained intel compatible builds of the OS) “
I HIGHLY doubt that. Apple makes ALL there employees sign a non disclosure agreement. If An Apple employee really did have access to something like that he would fired so fast if he was to show it to someone else.
I have a fried who is a Genius at an Apple store, and when he was in training at corporate headquarters, he had lunch with developers, and the developer could not even tell my friend a fellow Apple employee anything about what he was working on.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Perhaps what your student wanted to say is that sow FC running in a PC. But on top of Mac OS, not on windows.
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Zane…Andy was being sarcastic…
Shane
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[walter biscardi] “Final Cut was originally a Windows product from Macromedia.”
Don’t you mean “multi platform” I think they developed it as mac and windows compatible.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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FCP was developed on a Mac and all features were developed on a Mac and then only one member of the team at Macromedia ported the thing to Windows which was difficult in those days because Microsoft was messing between support for ActiveMovie and Quicktime for Windows.
This is in my interview with Randy Ubillos, creator of FCP and can be read in the upcoming “SuperMag” Magazine that we will be handing out to 1000 ticket holders at the FCPUG SuperMeet at NAB, April 16.
https://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2008
Michael Horton
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