[Will Hodgson]

Hi Adam,

There is nothing else that I know of as yet.

Although if you can do a clean install it is probably best.

Saying that though, I installed mavericks on top of mountain lion, no problem, then installed fcpx 10.1 ontop of 10.0.9

I say just go for it, and if you get problems, be prepared to re-install all that stuff clean.

Best,

Will

[Will Hodgson]

Hi Adam,

I have exactly the same laptop, core 2 duo, 8gigs of ram, and the 256mb graphics card.

I have updated to mavericks and FCPX 10.1

Not only does this new version work fine, but I have to report (and I am surprised by this) that FCPX 10.1 creates optimized media twice as fast as it use to.

FCPX 10.0.9 took 6 mins to create an optimized ProRes clip from an h264 mp4 file of about the same duration.

Mpeg Streamclip (the previous gold standard on my machine) took 5 mins to create a ProRes Quicktime.

But FCPX 10.1 has just achieved the same transcode of the same file in 3 mins!

So even on aging laptops like ours, there are dramatic gains to be had if you upgrade.

Plus Libraries are so much better to hold events and projects in!

[Will Hodgson]

Oliver, you make two good points. It was the third party hardware vendors that enabled fcp to go prime time – not that they had a lot else to go with, Avid being hardware exclusive at the time.

However, as I’m sure you are aware, there was a lot of trial and error with these third party cards to get them playing nicely with fcp.

And this work was at least partly done by the small post houses, who shared their trials and tribulations.

I was trying to articulate why people felt so let down by the end of fcp 7, and I think this is partly down to having to start from scratch with learning all the kinks in these new programs (well new to the fcp people of old anyway).

But as Bill and Mark have stated, there is merit in learning how to tackle things in new ways too.