Will OSX Lion still support FCP Studio?

Actually Stephen, all 3 of those programs work just fine for me. Something went wrong for you there, because the Final Cut Studio 3 works for me in Lion.

John

Thanks for that I have corrected my previous post and now have them working in Lion :-)

Jonah

Excuse my typo on your name as well and thanks again for your post.

I have successfully done a clean reinstall of snow leopard and have installed a fresh copy of final cut pro.

my final cut 7 project file which did not work in Lion, now works just fine. I don't know what happened when I upgraded to Lion that caused my fc 7 project to go kablooey.

All I know is that I'm going to wait for a final cut update before I try installing Lion again.

RAWR! 😀

Desktop Cinema Preview works fine in FCP 7.0.3 on a clean install av Lion. I would strongly recommend doing a clean install of Lion if you intend to use FCP 7.0.3. Seems like this clears out most of the bugs people have reported about so far.

You can clone the Lion InstallESD.dmg to an external HFS+ drive/parition, startup from that and do a clean install that way. You can find the InstallESD.dmg inside the Lion installer you download from the App Store. It is located in "Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport".

maybe after this client project is over and I have some free time I will try Lion again with the clean install.

I really want Lion to work with my final cut! RAWR! 😍

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this, so I thought I would here.

I couldn't install FCS3 after upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard. Final Cut was greyed out and it said Skip in the installation window. I found it was because I had installed Final Cut X and the new compressor a few weeks back. So I used AppZaper to remove both of them, and the installation allowed me to continue.

I'll try reinstalling Final Cut X after, though I don't see myself using it too much.

I'm a little confused here. I havn't read the whole thread through yet, but some people are stating Studio 3 will run on Lion and some are saying it kills certain features, What's the bottom line on this? Does it work on Lion or not? Also how much longer before that inevitable OS software update makes Final Cut Studio (or even Avid or Premier if Apple has the balls since they in direct competition with FCPX) unusable on any updated OSX system?

I'm having major, incessant crashes rendering FCP nigh-inoperable after upgrading my Early 2008 Mac Pro to Lion (from Snow Leopard, of course). Works fine at home on an iMac, but here, even after reinstalling FCP, I'm dead in the water. Any advice?

I have just finished instaling Lion on a 2011 17" Macbook Pro , the latest model. To be on the safe side i cloned may Leopard OS , something i advise before trying out something new in a system that was stable. Installation took less than 45 minutes , all apps running so far, FCP is actually running faster. I am editing a tv commercial on the next four days, i will post again about the performance of FCP STUDIO 3 on Lion on Wednesday. But i have to tell you guys , the first impression is that everything is running a lot faster, a lot faster indeed.

Interesting... Lifehacker says Lion is a tiny bit slower...

will169 wrote:

I'm having major, incessant crashes rendering FCP nigh-inoperable after upgrading my Early 2008 Mac Pro to Lion (from Snow Leopard, of course). Works fine at home on an iMac, but here, even after reinstalling FCP, I'm dead in the water. Any advice?

I recall someone else having a similar problem, I think in this thread. They did a clean install of Lion, then installed FCS3 and everything was fine. No guarantees though... but then again, dead in the water? What have ya got to loose. Good luck.

here is a way to try out Lion without putting yourself at risk with the dual boot. i wish i had done this before I encountered probs.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/12/how-to-install-dual-boot-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-and-1 0-6-snow-leopard/

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Have been editing non stop for the last days , no problems whatsoever, no crashes, FCP Studio 3 on Lion runs without a glitch. And FCP is a bit faster in the small stuff , and a lot of small stuff ads to big stuff at the end of the day. If only Apple would rewrite FCP 7 for 64 bits , cause FCP X is a mess...