will FCP10 earse FCP 7 ?

I don't see any reason you couldn't run a 'dual-boot' setup. (others may know better)

I currently run Tiger/FCStudio 1 on my internal MBPro system drive, then have an external enclosure with a clone of that drive on one partition and Snow Leopard FCStudio 3 on another partition.

IIRC, (and my experience has been) that booting from an external system drive must be connected via FW or USB.

Clone your current system drive, then create a new startup drive with two instances of OS. One with your current OS/FCP and the other with new OS/FCP-X.

If you're on a tower, I'd run these on different drives.

Can't speculate on DVDSP/BluRay.

K

EDIT - not sure if installing FCP-X would 'erase' FCP 7 or not.

I guarantee FCPX will not erase FCP7.

We aren't allowed to speculate about unannounced Apple products on these forums.

Upgrade versions of FCP have never overwritten previous versions. We ran the newer and older versions on the same systems for about two months after installation to make sure there were no weird compatibility issues. There never have been, not even back in the "FCPv3.5 Horror."

So, going on past experience, which is never an indication of future performance, I'd say Tom's correct, there will be no reason for FCPX to overwrite or erase (or earse) FCP7+.

bogiesan

Hey Ivan,

I feel less bad about threadjacking in your own thread (rather in the FC X(press) one...

Regarding your Hi8 tapes, here's what I did. Buy a Digital8 camcorder off eBay - it has a FW Interface and plays Hi8 and Standard8 tapes. You don't get timecode, but it comes in as DV.

Worked great for all those old home movies for me.

best,

Patrick

A word of caution!

SOME Digital 8 cameras are backward compatible with Hi8 and Video8 but most are not.

This was the selling point of the early models but many later ones dropped the capability, so check carefully before buying.

I got the Sony DCR-TR7000 and it worked great...

This search reveals a lot more options for you.

Patrick