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

[Levy Fioriti]

yep, the link is:

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14305

at blackmagic home page, there’s a link to a Mavericks’ support, don’t download it!

Now my FCP crashes, can’t edit..

[Danny Stricker]

So I updated my MacBook Pro8,3 to 10.9 Mavericks. FCP 7 seemed fine. Until I had to capture video from my AJA IoHD. Just like the blackmagic the video and audio sync was off by 29 frames. I went to AJA and the IoHD has been discontinued as of the release of OS X 10.9

Looks like I need to go back to Mountain Lion.

[Ignacio Recondo]

Thank you Levi!

I went back to 10.8 and everything works fine again. Im not Upgrading no more 🙂

Nano Recono

[Daniel E]

My laptop is having the same issue with QMaster preference panel. Trying a render in Compressor with the still listed cluster. Taking a long time to get started but no errors yet. No progress either. After about 20 minutes the rendering is working so patience is being rewarded. It is a long movie. Probably would start faster with just using a single processor but not as much fun.
. I haven’t found any other gotchas yet with FCP 7 but it is just the computer with know external video etc. So far projects open and play back. Holding off upgrading my Mac Pro which has a Black Magic card etc.

Daniel Epstein
Gold Teleproductions, Inc
New York, NY
http://www.goldtele.com

[Maurice Spees]

Never change a winning team!

That’s all. I am still on 10.7.5 and everything works just fine…

Moving Films – The power of vivid expressions

[Tan Ansell]

Hi,

This is a long due post… but for what it’s worth:

I encountered the same audio delay problem, so I downloaded Black Magic Desktop 10.10, which fixed the delay but caused very frequent crashes in FCP 7 (OS Mavericks).

I looked around for solutions and came across a maintenance software from Digital Rebellion that helps manage plugins. I used the Plugin Manager to disable the Black Magic Plugin, and FCP started working well without no crashing and audio sync problems.

Kind of a weird solution, but worked for me. I only use Black Magic driver to divert audio playback to a mixer then to my speakers.

Anyone with similar experiences?

Ansell

[Jd Marlow]

Strange — I’m on 10.9.5 Mavericks and also have Desktop Video 10.1.1 drivers installed for my Blackmagic Intensity Pro card. All is well so far. Haven’t cut a full new project on this system yet, but have done minor edits and many exports. All seems well so far (knocking on wood).

It’s for this reason I keep a dual boot with 10.7.5 hanging around. I held on to a copy of Leopard 10.5 until just last week!!

JD Marlow
jd@jdmarlow.com
http://www.jdmarlow.com

[Joel Silverman]

OK… I have been having some huge problems with FCP 7 and Mavericks. We have a TV series we have been editing perfectly for the past 2 years. I (for some stupid reason) decided to upgrade from my Snow Leopard which was just fine to Mavericks. Since I did that one of our files which is large, gives us the “out of memory” error, and crashes always when rendering. I have sent the hard drive and the computer to some local people here in Reno that know Macs and FCP with no answers. At this point I am ready to downgrade back to Snow Leopard. Does anyone else have this issue?

[Robin Hamilton]

Much later post in response to Joel who had problems with FCP 7 and was reconsidering downgrading back to Snow Leopard.
Two Questions:
Q 1 Joel, did you resolve,downgrade, run dual systems?
Good to hear that many have been okay with FCP 7. Thanks for all the info.

I have kept running 10.6.8 for its stability and compatibility with FCP 7 on an 2011 IMAC.

I am considering a dual system, either partitioning the hard drive, or using a firewire drive.
Q 2 Anyone tried running a partitioned or dual system? EG FCP 7 from a Firewire startup that has 10.6.8, but running Yosemite or El Capitan from the IMAC’s internal drive? Or other variations?

I would stay on FCP 7 (following the ‘if it ain’t broke, rule, articulated by the inimitable Shane Ross above) but I would like Creative COw, and native h264 editing from Premiere Pro, and Photoshop, and that means, I believe, upgrading my OS.