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Is there a Final Cut Pro 10.6.10 upgrade for 10.4.6 and if so, where?

I hesitated for a long time upgrading High Sierra to Monterey for fear my Final Cut Pro might no longer function...but took the leap. Sure enough, dang, no longer supported!


The new Pro version is well over $200...is there no upgrade for the FCP I already purchased? thanks

iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Nov 26, 2023 1:32 PM

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Dec 8, 2023 10:29 AM in response to thesurreyfriends



thesurreyfriends wrote:

This is what I am seeing.
Your post dated Dec 7th at 10.17 AM and the replies by Tom Wolsky and terryb , both Dec 7th, have not been placed in the correct chronological order on the forum and it may be the case that you have not seen the replies by both TW and terryb.

The new default order in the forum is set to "Best", which makes no sense.

One can change it every time, but it is better to change it once and for all in one's one default in our own profile, to restore sanity.


Nov 27, 2023 5:03 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

My OSMac Monterey version is 12.7.1


To be honest, I don't even remember the operating system I had when I first purchased my desktop...but, I do believe this will be the last OS update before all the upgrading of everything out there forces me to have to set this system aside and wrestle with buying a new computer or say forget about it! Right now...would be happy if I can get back to editing and putting out professional video content with FCP. I am a retired art educator...and a painter, and I do painting instructional videos. (or I did...) thanks

Nov 27, 2023 5:33 AM in response to outdoorpainter

The term PC stands for Personal Computer, which technically covers all desktop and laptop computers. Some folks have gotten stuck on it, incorrectly, referring to a PC running Windoze OS. But you know PC means a computer, and on this forum, a Mac specifically. So you’re using a PC that happens to be an Apple PC.

Nov 29, 2023 10:30 AM in response to BenB

ahh...okay...

well, FWIW...hopefully you'll smile because I report it is more than "some folks"...I retired from Art Education ten years ago...and the computer labs by our tech person in our district was set up as the "Mac" lab and the "PC" lab...and all the other districts we associated with practiced and understood the same. Thus, for us Microsoft computers have been generally thought of as "PCs" and thus my confusion. I knew they were "personal computers" but I presumed that was the marketing schism Microsoft just ran with. Appreciate the clarification. thanks...

Nov 29, 2023 10:55 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

If you don't mind, Luis...I googled the 10.6.10 version...and a number of websites come up to download Final Cut Studio Pro...but the sites strike me as suspicious. I do not see where Apple Support or Apple App Store offer FNC versions to download.


One popup suggested the over $200 cost for the software will not apply to someone that already has FNC on their desktop...but again, that's all well and fine, but were is a safe "Apple" source to download such an FNC updated version? Sorry for being so benign here I guess..thanks

Nov 29, 2023 11:26 PM in response to outdoorpainter

What is FNC? Did you mean FCP?


Why looking for any sites to download an update? Any site peddling this is fraudulent.

Updates are done with the Mac App Store application.


This has been said before: Click your account at the bottom left, locate FCP among the purchases and click the download button.


FWIW: You cannot run 10.6.10 on Monterey, but you can run 10.6.8.




Nov 30, 2023 6:56 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Appreciated, affirming what I suspected of FCP being offered on any other website. And yes, it was a thumb typo thing on my part, sorry...I have a 2019 FCP on my system, no longer good after upgrading to Monterey.

I have looked on the Apple App store for the update version. I've been under the weather this week...perhaps affecting my looking for the download link. Thanks...I'll keep looking

Nov 30, 2023 8:48 PM in response to outdoorpainter

Login to the App Store using the Apple ID used to purchase FCP. Click your name/Apple ID at the bottom left of the window. This should show you your previously purchased apps and FCP should be in the list with an Update button. Click it. It will probably complain that you need a later macOS to run the latest FCP (10.7 as of today) but should give you the latest version that will run on your OS.

Dec 1, 2023 2:59 AM in response to outdoorpainter

Did you find your Purchased page that lists all the applications you’ve bought with the Apple ID you’re using? You should see it when you log in with the button in the lower left corner. The application should be listed in that page. If it doesn’t show the cloud download button but says open, you need to move your current version to the trash, or compress and delete it.

Dec 7, 2023 10:17 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I retired as an Art Educator about ten years ago, taught computer graphic arts among many things...painting, drawing, etc., and in a northern midwest Wisconsin national forest community/environ. Connection had been an issue for many years. Our computer labs ran PCs (Microsoft) and Macs...and as a district and even at home we never did the Cloud...and used only Photoshop 9.0 which sufficed at the levels we taught.

Because of slower connection speeds...and my own general lack of enthusiasm putting things up on the cloud, preferring saving content to a number of external drives (which feels secure and is mine, and accessible should we have connection issues)...I have just never bothered with the "cloud"


Even upgrading...to MacOS Monterey...I hit "Later" when the popup comes up to initiate Cloud. Could be an issue as far as Apple verifying my original FCP purchase on my home system(?)


But that said, seeing the FCP on the Apple page, I get the feeling so much has changed in technology, not only since I've retired...but since I used many of these applications and software. I see Apple refers to iPhone and a minimum of "13 or later"...

Heck...I'm using a Canon DSLR70 with lenses to shoot video, very fine Hollywood standard videos actually... but in my old FCP I entered video to the time frame from a SD card reader. As for smartphone, I prefer the camera and editing features of the Samsung Ultra 22...and so, I'm probably way out in left field as regards any of this.


I need to perhaps reconsider a whole new direction for inputing video and making videos. I have a number of painting DVDs I put out over my old FCP...and ebooks...but, that is perhaps posterity now.


And to my surprise, though once I had FCP I never used it...I see after downloading MacOS Monterey...the iMovie app is no longer applicable...and probably needs upgrading were that the option for now.


So...what are my options? Doesn't seem my way of inputing video content would gel with whatever I can put on my current system. Is there other Apple sanctioned software I should look at? Someone mentioned "DaVinci Resolve" for free (whatever that is)....thx

Dec 7, 2023 10:26 AM in response to outdoorpainter

You're on a 2019 Mac running Monterey. You used FCPX 10.4.6, but want the newer version. It's pretty simple.


You open the App Store from the Apple menu. Access to your account is a button in the lower left of the App Store window. Click the button. You'll probably be asked to log in. Enter the Apple ID and password used to purchase the application. This should open the Purchased page that lists everything you downloaded from the App Store with that Apple ID. Find FCP in that list. (Don't know why but the list is in chronological order, newest first.) The application should have a cloud with a downward arrow to download it. If it says Open that means you already have FCP installed in the Applications folder. Move FCP from the Applications folder to the trash, but don't empty it. The button should change to the download button. Click it. You will get a message that says something like do you want the version for your operating system. Agree and it should download I think version 10.6.9. That's the latest that will work in Monterey.

Is there a Final Cut Pro 10.6.10 upgrade for 10.4.6 and if so, where?

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