Upgrading FCPX

[Jeremy Garchow]

10.5 seems fine. What have you heard that would stop you from upgrading?

I don’t think there’s a way to go to 10.4.9 without finding someone that has it and moving it to your machine.

[Robert Olding]

We have one 2019 iMac 5K here in our studio that we went ahead and did the update to Big Sur and Final Cut 10.5. We opened a copy of a recently finished 4K Library on it. The assets reside outside of Library on attached drives and represent a mix of various media types, 4.6K ProRes 4444, UHD ProRes 422, 1080p.mp4, .png, .mp3, .aif. files. The plugins used on the Projects were, ColorFinale, various MotionVFX transitions and titles, iZotope audio plugins, Twixtor, along with some of the built-in titles, color board, and audio compression.

We updated all the third party plugins before attempting this. Twixtor was the only plugin that crashed Final Cut Pro 10.5.

We tried uninstalling Twixtor and reinstalling it but it still crashed.

We then did a hard drive wipe and did a clean install of Big Sur and Final Cut Pro 10.5, along with all the third party plugins and other applications we use. That took close to two days to perform but it worked. Everything opened just fine including the clips that had Twixtor applied to them.

[Oliver Peters]

FCP 10.5 is fine. However, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading to Big Sur, yet. While many have had good results, there are tons of compatibility warnings out there by plug-in, app, and peripheral developers reporting some issues with Big Sur. So it really depends on what software you are running.

[Eric Santiago]

On my end, I warned colleagues and co-workers to not upgrade to Big Sur.

Some didn’t listen and now it’s soup to nuts with their issues.

Due to the WFH scenario, I cant even drop by and deal with it.

I warned them and sorry but it’s their mess now.

I always wait 3 to 6 months to upgrade to a new OS.