Q: New Mac Pro with Lion and can't install FCP.
I got a new Mac Pro with Lion and can't install FCP that worked fine in SL. Is it not compatible? Is it really a PowerPC program??? I'm a videographer and rely on this software and to spend $300 to continue to use it after spending a lot more for this software 4 years ago! Tell me this is not the case and there is a solution to installing FCP.
Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPhone 4s, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Once you go Mac, You don't go back!
Posted on Nov 14, 2011 6:25 PM
This could be the same problem I faced with FCE - FCE itself will run under Lion; however, the installer is PPC, so it would not install on my partition with a clean Lion install. So, if FCP will run (check on your SL disk to see if it is a PPC app or universal/Intel), this is what I did to solve it:
I have a working and up to date Snow Leopard partition with FCE.
I copied these instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38198?viewlocale=en_US
(these are for FCE, but they may/should also work for FCP)
I then copied over every single file from my SL partition to the Lion partition and placed them in the exact same spots.
Restarted. And: it worked!
Posted on Nov 14, 2011 7:47 PM

