to Cross Grade or not to Cross Grade

[David Roth weiss]

Jonny,

Its a no brainer, install the crossgrade.

But, in all honesty, you shouldn’t even be asking this question, because no one should ever upgrade or update without first making a clone of their system drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is free, a 160gb hard drive is just $80. Make a clone first and it takes all the drama and all the worries out of the equasion, that way you always have a good copy to fall back on just in case the upgrade is problematic. If everyone here simply cloned their system drive first many of the issues discussed on this board would simply go away.

DRW

[Jonathan White]

Thanks David,

I’ll clone my drive (i assume I can clone to a spare fw800 drive I have. Great idea.

Johnny

[Tom Daigon]

Many would say its sheer folly to upgrade in the middle of a project.
But if you are confident that you can get back to the current version, then
do so at your own risk….I wouldnt.

[David Roth weiss]

[lasvideo] “Many would say its sheer folly to upgrade in the middle of a project.”

And those would be the same ones who, using a sense of false economy, would not spend $80 to clone their system drive before upgrading. With a system clone there is no reason to worry — your OS, project files and apps are backed-up to an identical clone. Where’s the folly coming from?

DRW

[Tom Daigon]

Murphy’s Law.

[Mark Maness]

One thing, Johnny… When you clone your disk, make sure that you make BACKUPs of your current project before opening those and converting them to the new version of FCP. Remember, FCP is NOT backwards compatible.

I know, you’ll have another copy when you clone your disk BUT its always good to make a DVD backup of your project before changing anything!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[David Roth weiss]

[lasvideo] “Murphy’s Law”

It doesn’t apply. A clone that boots is probably 99.8% safe and effective, probably about the same protection afforded by a condom. Would you turn down sex based on Murphy’s law if you knew you were 99.8% safe???

DRW

[Jonathan White]

Wow what a thread I’ve started!!! Would I turn down sex if I knew it was 99.8% safe?
Are the advantages of 5.1.2 orgasmic (using motion filters directly and the new scopes sound nice but not quite orgasmic)….

Johnny

[Miodrag Ristic]

DRW

I love the analogy here.
Who said that editors are geeks? 🙂

Mick

[Bill Lee]

The advantage of using FxPlug filters really come out if you have a very fast video card because the FxPlug uses the GPU hardware acceleration of the video card to process your effects. Oh, and you have to be using those filters too to see that advantage. 🙂 I guess it would be possble for developers to develop specialised cards to do all sorts of effects in real time with the FxPlug architecture that Apple has made available to developers.

Read the document: https://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Final_Cut_Pro_5.0_lbn_z.pdf
This document covers the complete set of changes from v5.0 up to 5.1.2. If there is nothing there that will improve your workflow or fix your problems, then you shouldn’t feel the need to upgrade so urgently.

Bill Lee
“Do ya feel lucky, … well, do ya?”