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Q: Updating FCP 5.1 to 5.1.4 in Mountain Lion

I'm trying to update Final Cut Pro 5.1 on my new iMac, which I managed to install onto Mountain Lion after I installed Rosetta from my Snow Leopard disc - I've been running FCP 5.1.4 on my very old G4, so have an archive of projects that I would like to access on my new iMac. Apple doesn't appear to be supporting the update but I do have the .pkg update file sitting in Receipts on my G4. The problem appears to be that Mountain Lion doesn't allow installing from .pkg files - if that's correct, is there a workaround?

 

Any help would be gratefully received.

Final Cut Pro 5.1, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 10, 2013 3:22 AM

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Q: Updating FCP 5.1 to 5.1.4 in Mountain Lion

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  • by Ian R. Brown,Helpful

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Jan 11, 2013 12:05 AM in response to Rajchenko
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    Jan 11, 2013 12:05 AM in response to Rajchenko

    I have no experience using such an old app with ML.

     

    What might work is to create a separate partition on your Mac's HD using Disk Utility.

     

    You can then install Snow Leopard on that partition, followed by FCP and use your iMac in dual-boot mode.

     

    This tutorial shows how to do it.

     

    Although it is talking about Lion, the process is exactly the same with ML.

     

    How to Install & Dual Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard

  • by Rajchenko,

    Rajchenko Rajchenko Jan 11, 2013 2:39 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Jan 11, 2013 2:39 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    Thank you for the advise - I know it's ancient software but is the only way to open old projects as FCP X is infact a totally new app that doesn't directly update the files.

     

    I may have the original download to 5.1.4 on disc, which might work and although you present a good workaround - as I don't plan using the older version of FCP other than for legacy purposes, I might be better off creating xml files from FCP running on my G4. Although, it would be nice not to have to do that.

     

    Cheers