[Lucas Way]

Personally I’d go with Premiere, it is so like FCP and is now 64bit, has the Mercury engine etc…

I find AVID just too different a beast and unnecessary for my needs (smaller house).

[Lucas Way]

I absolutely did not see the video portion, would have help if I was on my proper browser and not my iPhone.

I would never dare store my media files on my boot drive, I work totally externally like all editors with an ounce of sense. I more mean for general use, say I wanted to access a document or a music track when Im using the machine in non-work time.
That’s good to know I can.
Also, I can’t see why you couldn’t access basic applications if you have access to the other partitions folders/files? I.e. Ones that store nothing in the Library, just the self contained ones like a browser?

I already keep a time machine’d backup of my entire drive so I’m safe to mess about and have 2 OS’s, hopefully FCS3 will still be supported in Lion (though from Apples recent treatment of us I doubt it) so I can have 2 Lion partitions, one for FCPX and one for FCP7 and everything else. If not, SL for FCP7 it is.

[Lucas Way]

I absolutely did not see the video portion, would have helped if I was on my proper browser and not my iPhone, my mistake.

I would never dare store my media files on my boot drive, I work totally externally like all editors with an ounce of sense. I more mean for general use, say I wanted to access a document, personal video file or a music track when Im using the machine in non-work time.
That’s good to know I can access the files of the other partition.
Also, I can’t see why you couldn’t access basic applications if you have access to the other partitions folders/files? I.e. Ones that store nothing in the Library, just the self contained ones like a browser?

I already keep a time machine’d backup of my entire drive so I’m safe to mess about and have 2 OS’s, hopefully FCS3 will still be supported in Lion (though from Apples recent treatment of us I doubt it) so I can have 2 Lion partitions, one for FCPX and one for FCP7 and everything else. If not, SL for FCP7 it is.

[Lucas Way]

Hi David.

With all due respect, I found your tutorial a little on the brief side.
You don’t actually explain how to create 3 partitions and install the OS on them? Or how to clone an OS install.

I’ve never had to create more than one boot drive so if you could explain that’d be great.

Also can each partition access the files/folders of an other?

So if I had fileX.mov stores on partition #1 (Lion) could partition#2 (SL) access it?