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V13 & FCP on existing Dual Boot Quad
Hi Folks
Just want to check my thinking is right on this one before I jump into something I regret…
I’m currently running M100 V12 on a dual boot system with FCP with a AJA Kona 3.0 Lhe card. I’m really liking the sound of V13 and the FC STudio playing nicely on the same drive.
The only reason I had it set up as a dual boot was to avoid the FCP/M100 clash. So once I get all the adobe stuff, FCP, M100 etc, etc all on the same drive I guess I can just uninstall everything on the second drive and use it for storage – does this sound like a plan?
I was going to do this by loading the M100 V13 over the top of my V12 and then just installing the FCStudio 2 suite on the same drive. Obviously, I’ll need to make sure the AJA drivers/etc are on the same drive as well (they’re currently on the FCP side). Is it this simple as this or am I missing something?
Any advice, comments or suggestions appreciated.
Cheers
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[Paul Crowe] “I was going to do this by loading the M100 V13 over the top of my V12 and then just installing the FCStudio 2 suite on the same drive. Obviously, I’ll need to make sure the AJA drivers/etc are on the same drive as well (they’re currently on the FCP side). Is it this simple as this or am I missing something? “
It is that simple. Only make sure that you have the 6.01 Aja drivers, and if you have a Kona 3, do NOT upgrade the board firmware. Plus, make sure that you only upgrade to QuickTime 7.5 and not to 7.5.5 (see the QT 7.5.5 thread below
[Paul Crowe] “So once I get all the adobe stuff, FCP, M100 etc, etc all on the same drive I guess I can just uninstall everything on the second drive and use it for storage – does this sound like a plan? “
If you don´t need the drive for storage, you could keep it as a second boot drive in case you have an emergency. I would set up the V13 partition and make sure that everything is fine there. Then I would use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the startup drive to the second drive in case that some update or a HD failure messes around with your boot drive.
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Thanks Floh.
You are a gem. That’s exactly what I’ll do.
I’ll check out that thread as well because I’ve already upgraded to 7.5.5 and I don’t seem to be having any problems. Although I did have a problem exporting WMVs out of QTPro (via F4M) but that was fix by reinstalling the previous version of F4M. Have to say the F4M support people were excellent.
Cheers
Paul
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