Who wants to be a hero and try FCP7 with Mavericks?

[Rainer Wirth]

I don’t want to be the hero. FCP works best with snow leopard and lion.

cheers

Rainer

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[Shane Ross]

Why? Why upgrade to Mavericks? What do you have to gain? If you rely on your computer to earn a living, I would highly recommend NOT upgrading…stick to the OS that works.

Shane
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[Al Levine]

I work in animation, so we deal with thousands and thousands of shots in various stages of production on multiple episodes.
In OS X Mountain Lion they introduced smart folders, which helped our workflow immensely.
The idea of tags in 10.9 takes this organization a huge leap forward.

(I know FCP X has these things sort of built in, but using our currently workflow Premiere or FCP 7 are the only options).

Edit: Because all animation is in house, we use servers and the Finder via an XSAN to do most of our organization, on top of an online content management system.

[Charles Breiner]

I’m with my buddy Al.
If for no other reason than curiosity. We have kind of gotten away with FCP7 for a few years beyond what I would expect Apple to support, but inevitably they’re going to force the issue, intentionally or otherwise. Giving away Mavericks points toward the “we expect everyone to be on the latest system, period.” But I could be wrong. I bet we’ll be fine on this release but trouble has to be on the horizon.

-Chuck

[David Eaks]

Admittedly, I did not read the Apple Developer NDA thoroughly, anyone know if it is OK to discuss the Mavericks Developer Preview now that its gone public?

I’m still waiting on the public release to download…

[Erik Lindahl]

I’d love go hear peoples experinces here as well. Bit the bullet and upgraded my home system to 10.9 but I don’t have FCP7 there.

[Christopher S. johnson]

Shane, because it’s *interesting*. I like the idea of tabbed windows, file tagging, and energy efficiency while unplugged (I use a souped up MBP 2012 as primary machine after some of your past recommendations). I might shoot a question back at you. Why be against somebody trying? It could be roses. It’s been roses for me combining FCP 7 and Mountain Lion, along with AJA ioXT.

[Christopher S. johnson]

I would also like to hear a report. Could be fun.

[Chris Feldmann]

Howdy, I can confirm that I have gotten it to open, haven’t done much past that though as I do not have any active video projects, but I was able to successfully open all of the FCP Studio suite applications. HOWEVER it did scare me at first saying that it was unsupported and should attempt a reinstall then contact apple (which I knew would be no good). After just simply deleting the programs from the applications folder and then running the installer on JUST the applications, they booted up just fine. took 10 minutes tops to test it out. Again not sure about plugins and such but I’d be willing to bet your okay.

ALSO mind App Nap, turn that off for apps you’ll use in the background while they are hidden or on a different space. To do that “command i” on the application in the folder and then check off “Prevent App Nap” that way, next time you run the program (yes you have to quit and reopen the application) it’ll render without slowing down in the background due to the new resource management introduced in Mavericks, this goes for EVERY program you render things in that you put in the background often with. App Nap is great but it can also catch you off guard when you have it out of sight and all of a sudden you wake up in the morning and your render isn’t finished.

[Al Levine]

It’s actually working okay for me too (installed it on a non-work machine), no problems opening projects at all. Still seems speedy.

Only new issue is the new fullscreen mode. If you set your external video to the 2nd display, it will still show a top menu bar above the picture. Seems a lot of people are having issues with this in general in various apps.