dastoelk

Q: macOS Sierra and FCPX

I know the rule of thumb is to never upgrade a FCPX in the middle of a project.

 

But, would it be safe to upgrade the to macOS Sierra in the middle of a project?

 

I've a project that will live for a spell whilst a persnickety client makes numerous revi's. (I'm not complaining! Billable hours.)

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 3.4G Intel i7 32GB RAM FCPX 10.2.3

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 10:14 PM

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Q: macOS Sierra and FCPX

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  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Sep 20, 2016 10:28 PM in response to dastoelk
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    Sep 20, 2016 10:28 PM in response to dastoelk

    I would say you are the only one that should make the call to update.

     

    What I will say is that there is no updating or anything funky for existing Projects to work with Sierra.

    One thing that is cosmetically scrambled is the timecode field.

    Other than that it seems fine.

    As usual there will be some quirks that will come to light as more users jump to Sierra.

     

    Al

  • by StaceTee,Helpful

    StaceTee StaceTee Sep 27, 2016 9:18 PM in response to Alchroma
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    Sep 27, 2016 9:18 PM in response to Alchroma

    The #1 rule of thumb for FCP X, is to have all clips backed up on an external HHD. I have FCP X, with the latest firmware update. And, had no problem upgrading to Sierra. I have since, worked on a couple of my previously started projects, and all's well. It's safe for you to upgrade to Sierra, without any hiccups from FCP X.

  • by Karsten Schlüter,Helpful

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Sep 27, 2016 9:17 PM in response to dastoelk
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    Sep 27, 2016 9:17 PM in response to dastoelk

    dastoelk wrote:

    …would it be safe to upgrade the to macOS Sierra in the middle of a project?

    over, at my Homebase fcp.co, we've collected so far some cosmetic issues, on some set-ups …

     

    some notice the ol' TC window glitch (that line thru the display), or

    in the Inspector pane, all points are 'collapsed' and 'show/hide' doesn't show up/show.

    Fix: trashing prefs (cmd-opt on launch)

     

    and: some notice issues with text-effects (erratically not working) ... if, again, trashing prefs doesn't fix it, you're in serious trouble

  • by mjones165,

    mjones165 mjones165 Sep 29, 2016 5:08 AM in response to dastoelk
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    Sep 29, 2016 5:08 AM in response to dastoelk

    worked fine for me. always have an external drive for the media, plugged in during the upgrade.

  • by Nick Toth,

    Nick Toth Nick Toth Sep 29, 2016 6:43 AM in response to dastoelk
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    Sep 29, 2016 6:43 AM in response to dastoelk

    Based on what I am seeing on fcp.co I would avoid updating to Sierra until FCPX is updated.

     

    There were small issues with FCPX and El Capitan before FCPX got updated but nothing earthshaking.

     

    There seem to be quite a few serious ones under Sierra however.

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Sep 29, 2016 7:27 AM in response to Nick Toth
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    Sep 29, 2016 7:27 AM in response to Nick Toth

    Nick Toth wrote:

    Based on what I am seeing on fcp.co I would avoid updating to Sierra until FCPX is updated.

     

     

    There seem to be quite a few serious ones under Sierra however.

    yep, at last on productive/commercially used systems…

    actually all 'flaws' are in the area of cosmetics/UI, haven't read about 'real' flaws.... yet

     

    Just to iterate general advice to any early adopters (like me):

    Don't hesitate to send Apple a feedback

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Sep 29, 2016 7:31 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter
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    Sep 29, 2016 7:31 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

    Don't hesitate to send Apple a feedback

     

    You're right. Nothing is going to be done to fix 10.2.3 in Sierra.

  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB Sep 29, 2016 11:48 AM in response to dastoelk
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    Sep 29, 2016 11:48 AM in response to dastoelk

    "But, would it be safe to upgrade the to macOS Sierra in the middle of a project?"

     

    Absolutely NOT!