What are the advantages of the FCP crossgrade?

[Walter Biscardi]

[gineric1] “”Also bear in mind you won’t be able to install any future updates until you make the move to v5.1″

I doubt that is the case. FCS 5.5 or 6 or whatever might be next will just have an upgrade path from 5.0.5 or 5.1.1 at two different prices.”

Martin is talking about Software Updates. There are no more software updates for FCP 5.0. All software updates released from here forward are for FCP 5.1 until the next major release of FCP.

What you’re talking about is an Upgrade. And yes, it will probably be more expensive to upgrade from 5.0 than 5.1 or whatever .revision we’re at when FCP 6 is released.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Holmes]

[walter biscardi] “And yes, it will probably be more expensive to upgrade from 5.0 than 5.1 or whatever .revision we’re at when FCP 6 is released”

That’s an interesting conclusion. Since G5 Mac users don’t need to upgrade to 5.1, I think it’s unlikely there’ll be a different upgrade price from 5.0.x to 5.1.x. Seems a bit overcomplicated, and since 5.0.3 (even) is perfectly stable on a G5 machine, unnecessary. I can see the reasoning, just feel differently about this.

I guess we’ll know next April.

Ben

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[Richard Boghosian]

Aside from the fact that a number of plugins are not yet intel compatible, what is the group’s experience with existing plugins on the power pc using 5.1 fcp?

Richard Boghosian
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