upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

You can run BOTH versions on the same Mac.

I believe you should alter the NAME of FCP 4.5 so the Mac (and YOU) can tell to two versions of the program apart.

Be sure to make copies (I’d even burn them to a CD) of your 4.5 project files (not the media) to hold (just in case) and only open these older projects from inside the 4.5 version.
Once you open an older project in a new version of FCP, it won’t “go back” and open in the former version (Hence the backup copies, just in case.)

[Steven Gonzales]

I bought a 300 gig drive, put it in my firewire enclosure, and formatted it with two partitions of 150 gigs.

Then I used carbon copy cloner to clone my system drive to one partition to run Panther and 4.5. To the other partition I loaded Tiger and FCP 5. The I pulled my old system drive, and put this new drive in its place.

I just boot to the system I need for the particular project. The old drive is my backup until I decide to use it for something else.

[David Bogie]

Good advice for a critical path.
Allow me to repeat it:
Make a clone of your system, heck, make two.
here’s another hint: Test the clone before you wipe your drive for Tiger/FCP5.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[John Fishback]

I installed a second internal drive and installed Tiger on that. By using the Startup Disk utility in System Prefs I can choose to be in Panther or Tiger. Using FCP5 I’ve opened and worked on at least 6 projects started in 4.5 with no ill effects at all. I still backed all my project files up on two external drives.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
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ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
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