AGP Graphics cards and Final Cut Pro...?

#29: Need AGP Graphics card

Shane's Stock Answer #29

You either need to either:

1) use the following hack -
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/finalcut_pro_on_oldmacs.html

or

2) Upgrade to FCP 5

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302667

Shane



"There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here!"

That's a PCI-Express gfx card, btw - big difference to PCI.

Patrick

Short answer. FCP 4 was built to use the AGP card, when it can't find one it won't run.

Since Apple has not posted a fix or download update to solve this issue it would seem that the only fix they offer is to buy FCP5.

There is supposedly a hack that will fix it. Do a search here for more information.

rh

Not to be pedantic, but Apple built it with requirements beyond PCI, thus the test for AGP, as PCI-E is beyond AGP, I think its pretty safe to believe it'll run FCP 4 and 4.5 without much trouble. The hack simply stops looking specifically for an AGP card.

Patrick

Won't work. There are no AGP slots in the new G5's. Only PCIe.

Shane

And just to beat this topic into the dust, the "hack" simply involves editing a couple of files so the installer and after that, the app don't abort when they don't find an AGP card. No code changes involved.

Patrick

Not quite in the dust yet!

Just received my Quad and tried to fix the 'plist' (as per the xlr8 site) but still can't get FCP4 to start up on the new machine. It quits when loading 'Audio Filters' during startup. Could this be because I copied the application across via the Migration panel or is this a seperate problem?

Do I need to do a clean install from scratch?

Has anyone managed this fix with the new machines yet?

Any advice would be appreciated to get this going again.

Cheers

Colin

Never copy applications via the migration process. Some vital little preference get lost in the mix. Files, yes, Applications, no.

Always install Applications fresh on new machines.

Shane

Thanks Shane,

But this ain't workin'.

I've done a clean install following the instructions at xlr8:-
- Deleted the Installation Check files
- Altered the info.plist file

But it still crashes at the Audio Filters stage of startup. I just wonder if this is something unrelated to the fix? I've installed this perfectly well on an old Dual 800 and more recently a Powerbook with no problems.

Heeeeelp!

Colin

PS - If I can't install this on the new machine, will I even be able to install the upgrade Package to v5?

The audio filter problem is unrelated to the AGP problem. I see you have Logic, do you also have some kind of audio interface - like MBOX? Can you take that out of the equation until the FCP install is working? And/or how about eliminating the Audio plugins, and see if that solves the problem. If so, add them back in a staged manner to find the culprit.

Again, none of this relates to the AGP situation...

Patrick

Actually I've only just migrated to Logic and hadn't installed it at the time of writing. Likewise my Audio interface.

I'll have another dig around for ideas, but do let me know if you have anything further.

Cheers

Colin

Never copy applications via the migration process. Some vital little preference get lost in the mix.

I'm sure this may be the case sometimes, but I just wiped my startup drive, installed 10.4.3 and then had the installer import all my files and applications from an external firewire drive I had cloned from the old startup drive. So far I haven't found any application problems whatsoever. It seemed like it would be easier to do this for starters and then deal with any glitches later than reinstalling everything.

As for FCP, well I also upgraded to FCP 5 as part of this same process. I didn't try to run FCP 4.5 after the reinstall, but the FCP 5 upgrade installed without any problem. BTW, even if you do get FCP 4 onto your new G5 I think you will have some issues with QT7 and MacOS 10.4. There may be fixes for these, but in the end it makes a lot more sense to just upgrade to version 5 IMO.