HT3835: Final Cut Studio/Express: Compatible versions for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
Learn about Final Cut Studio/Express: Compatible versions for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
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Oct 1, 2013 7:50 PM in response to Yooper124by MartinR,You can try it, but there's no guarantee it's going to install or even run properly. If it were me, I wouldn't do it. At this point a new Mac will come with either Mt. Lion or Mavericks, and I recommend going with Final Cut Pro X, which is the currently released and supported product.
FCE 3.5 was released in May 2006 (over 7 years ago, in the Tiger era - that's 4 generations of OS X ago). FCE was discontinued over 2 years ago and is not supported on Lion or later.
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Oct 2, 2013 1:30 AM in response to Yooper124by Alchroma,FCE 4 mostly works but as Martin suggests, 3.5 is pushing it with the later OS systems.
Al
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Oct 2, 2013 9:51 PM in response to Yooper124by babowa,I've been using it with Lion and Mountain Lion and it is working well. It was updated to 3.5.1 via Software Update.
However, you will have a problem with the installer as I got the "PPC applications are not supported" when I tried to install it in Lion after doing a fresh install (although FCE is a Universal application, the installer appears to be PPC). So, I followed the file locations in this article and moved every file from my Snow Leopard partition to the Lion partition into the same folder/location. Restarted and it has been working since.
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Oct 2, 2013 11:56 PM in response to babowaby Ian R. Brown,You could probably use Pacifist to install it if the inbuilt installer refused to work.
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Oct 3, 2013 8:58 AM in response to Yooper124by Yooper124,Thanks for all your responses, as I need to make some decisions soon. I think that I will not use FCPEx when I finally get my new laptop. I have been using it here at school on our snow leopard imac..I like it. I have FCP1 on my old G4 audio edition at home and it is what I am used to, but I am thinking of going to Avid Composer instead of FCPX...am concerned that Apple might decide to drop it.
Thanks again.
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Oct 3, 2013 9:43 AM in response to Ian R. Brownby babowa,Good idea - will try that if I need to do it again.