What’s the Best Order to Install FCP/FCPX?

[Andy Neil]

Here’s what I’d do:

Create a 2nd bootable partition.
Install Snow Leopard on one, Mavericks on the other.
Install FCS on Snow Leopard drive, FCPX on Mavericks.

Keep them separate. Snow Leopard was the last solid config for FCS in my opinion although you could probably go up to Lion if you really needed to. FCS has been buggy for me in Mavericks and so I don’t trust it, especially since it won’t ever be fixed.

Then see how often you boot up into the SL partition. For me, it happens less and less each day.

Andy

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[Rick Foxx]

Can Snow Leopard be installed on a 2013 Mac Pro? I thought Mavericks was the only compatible OS.

MacPro 8 core 2.8 gHz, 16GB RAM, rMacBook Pro, Areca ARC-8050, Final Cut Studio 3, Final Cut X, Adobe Production Premium CS6, Logic X

[Andy Neil]

To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t own the nMP. But I’m sure someone somewhere has tried.

Andy

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Here’s what Apple says and it works well:

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4722

Jeremy

[Rick Foxx]

Great link! Thanks!

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[Mathieu Ghekiere]

One thing I had trouble with, or almost forgot:

if you install FCP Studio before FCPX, also remember to install the UPDATES of the FCP Studio before you install FCPX. And you have to get them manually. Because the whole updating mechanism in Mavericks is trough the App Store, and it doesn’t have the Updates. So you have to find the .dmg’s manually (I think they are still somewhere on Apple’s site).

[Jeremy Garchow]

I have found the updates to FCS3 install through the AppStore and haven’t had a problem.

All of my machines run X and FCS3.

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

I have FCP Studio on my Mavericks iMac, thought I rarely use it. I just realized it’s stuck at 7.0. No updates show anywhere.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I have installed FCS3 on a small slew of Mavericks computers, and the updates show up in AppStore every time. It’s something like “Pro Applications Update”.

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

Maybe I need to move them into the Applications folder. Right now they’re in a sub folder called FCS 3. But can’t muck with that just now.

To answer the original OP’s question, the optimal install order would be 1, 3, 4, 5. 🙂