Upgrading FC Studio except Final Cut

[Steve Eisen]

Install the complete suite. Before you install, RENAME FCP 4.5. If you don’t, FCP Suite will overwrite your FCP Application. This will alow you to have both FCP 4.5 and 5.0 on your system.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Don’t think that Motion 2 will interact well with FCP 4.5 for sure… I’m not seeing a lot of problems opening 4.5 projects in 5… I’d duplicate a 4.5 project first however, and keep a version of 4.5 running as suggested by Steve… I did this by using a second startup disk for the new Studio… I’m running a dual boot system now, but really haven’t had much occasion to run the 4.5 system anymore.

Jerry

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[John Dehn]

Do I only need to rename the application itself? What about the preference and other files, will they be overwritten?
-jd

[Jerry Hofmann]

Actually, they won’t because they have a different name…

Jerry

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[John Dehn]

Jerry:

So if I install everything on a new drive instead, then I just have to change my startup drive when I shut down each time, right? Also I paid for the upgrage to FCP Studio not the full package. Will that cause me a problem when I’m trying to upgrade to a new system drive? All in all I really like the idea of putting this whole new box on a new drive and upgrading to Tiger as part of it.

Thanks

-jd

[Jeremy Garchow]

Not to speak for Jerry, but when you install FCP 5 upgrade it will ask you for your old serial numbers from all applications so have those handy. I did the same thing (installed tiger and fcp 5 on a different drive) and have not looked back. I’m with Jerry that since upgrading, i have rarely booted into 4.5 except to finish my older projects. ALthough, I did not upgrade any projects, I finished what I had in 4.5 and started new ones in 5 and I’m pretty much running 5 exclusively on two machines here. Even though it’s possible to have both versions running on one system, I would recommend keeping them separate.

Jeremy

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