Will OSX Lion still support FCP Studio?

So, it seems some people are experiencing no problems what-so-ever and some people are on the verge of jumping from a very high building... or jumping ship to a more reliable company

Anyway, the aim of my post is to establish whether all those who are having NO problems are working on new projects started in Lion? And all those HAVING problems are working on projects started in Snow Leopard and carrying them over to Lion?

I have 3 projects on the go right now so am apprehensive - to say the least - to "upgrade" to Lion.

I have a clone of the boot-drive (via Carbon Copy Cloner) so can always go back to Snow Leopard but to be honest I just don't think I can justify the lost time nor hassle!

So, folks who ARE having problems and folks who AREN'T having problems, could you please confirm if you are working on NEW projects STARTED in Lion? Or are you working on projects started in Snow Leoaprd and continued in Lion?

Thanks

NOPE! Just installed Lion and it killed my entire FCP suite! I feel very ripped off! We spent a lot of money on that package only to have it erased. I want my money back pure and simple! We need FCP for many professional projects and Apple just killed our business! Revenge will be had!

Alpesh Gor wrote:

So, it seems some people are experiencing no problems what-so-ever and some people are on the verge of jumping from a very high building... or jumping ship to a more reliable company

Anyway, the aim of my post is to establish whether all those who are having NO problems are working on new projects started in Lion? And all those HAVING problems are working on projects started in Snow Leopard and carrying them over to Lion?

I have 3 projects on the go right now so am apprehensive - to say the least - to "upgrade" to Lion.

I have a clone of the boot-drive (via Carbon Copy Cloner) so can always go back to Snow Leopard but to be honest I just don't think I can justify the lost time nor hassle!

So, folks who ARE having problems and folks who AREN'T having problems, could you please confirm if you are working on NEW projects STARTED in Lion? Or are you working on projects started in Snow Leoaprd and continued in Lion?

Thanks

You are right to be apprehensive. Even if some are not having problems. I NEVER do a major OS upgrade until the x.3 or x.4 release. Most of the larger bug have been squashed by then. And, If your're sailing along on smooth waters now, well... why make trouble for yourself. If you have an edit bay you can spare to the experimentation, and still butter the bread, then do that, but don't stick a wrench in your own gearbox. I've been monitoring this thread for a while. It seems that it's about 50/50. You also have to consider all the variables of your rig(s), 3rd part hardware / software, plugins, etc... And the 3rd party vendors have only recently released their updates to accommodate Lion, so they may not be perfected yet either... Too many variable for me right now. And anyway, FCP7 isn't 64-bit anyway (I know some have reported noticeable increases in speed), but some like our friend Capt'n Chaos above got caught with his pants down. Not his fault entirely... he trusted apple in that they said Lion will support FCS3.... but then again, they told us FCx is a pro app... truth is in the eye of the beholder... Wait for a better time, when you don't have projects in the works, and you have a week to sort out a mess, if need be.

he trusted apple in that they said Lion will support FCS3....

... errrghh, it does.

they told us FCx is a pro app...

... errrghh, it is.

truth is in the eye of the beholder...

... honestly; I wouldn't let you look after a chimps tea party. 😁

Captain Chaos can you please explain what exactly went wrong? Just so other get a rough idea what can happen.

ProMaxed, I'm approximately a month away from finishing 3 projects. Once that's done I'm going to re-back-up my HD then do a clean install of Lion and FCP Studio 3. I can then hopefully report back with good... or bad news.

the black sun, Lion may support FCS3, but it seems from peoples experiences that it doesn't support it too well... yet!

Having read about the missing functions from FCX, it's still a far way from being a Pro App. As much as I want it to be, it just isn't there... yet?!?!?

FCS3 works well with Lion. It works as well with Lion as it is ever going to. There is no yet. No further work on FCS is being done to support any currrent or future software.

Thanks for your reply Tom.

So, does FCS3 work as well with Lion as it did with Snow Leopard?

And more importantly for me... as well as with a lot of others, I'd imagine, does it work well in Lion with projects created in Snow Leopard?

If I need to revisit projects I don't want to be met with glitch after glitch 😟

Its very simple and straight forawrd.

Had FCP suite 5 installed on my 2007 Macbook Pro, a top of the line laptop then. FCP 5 was installed because it worked perfectly and could be relied on to get the jobs done. BTW developers of new OS systems, getting jobs done is ALL that is important NOT THE NEW BELLS AND WHISTLES.

Heard good things about Lion so I downloaded and installed from the App Store as advertised. Install went well, no errors or anything of the kind. When the system rebooted under the new OS the first thing I checked was the FCP tools. Each of them were greyed out with the NO symbol over each one. I went to the Applications folder and tested them from there each FCP tool was nonresponsive, would not start. No explination message just nothing. Then noticed my MS Office suite was also greyed out with the NO symbol. Fantastic! Thanks Apple. Upgrades are supposed to mean a better OS overall and I could continue my jobs under a better more robust OS! Just not the case with lion, so far the entire OS is slow and chunky compared to Snow Leapord. Even Mail is slower.

Feels like Apple is pushing a business model of forced obsolessence on us. I know they have a new very shotty version of FCP X they want us to move in to but from what I have seen of it, its just another expensive downgrade.

So disapointed. Lesson learned. Going back to Snow Leapord and sticking with FCP5. Thanks for the chore though Apple.

If you aren't using third party hardware it should work well, but if you're in the middle of a project that's a few months from complatoon, I would not update the OS until you're finished.

Ahh! Yes, Tom, 3rd party plug-ins... which I have a fair few of in the form of filters and effects!

Will definitely be holding off for a while 😀

Captain Chaos-

I was going to stay out of this but I can't help myself.

Apple never said Final Cut 5 was compatible with Lion, in fact if you remember Final Cut 5 was a PowerPC application and required Rosetta to run it on Intel Macs (until 5.1 came out, which was a universal binary app). Rosetta wasn't included in Lion, which is why you get the "No" icons for Final Cut and Office.

Apple said you need to run 7.0.3 for it to work on Lion, I'm running it on 5 Intel Macs with various AJA Kona cards and haven't had any problems.

Sounds to me like you need to upgrade FCP and Office. And maybe do a little more research before blindly upgrading your OS.

-Or the cheaper more cost effective solution of throwing out Lion for Snow Leapored. Thanks.

Captain Chaos wrote:

-Or the cheaper more cost effective solution of throwing out Lion for Snow Leapored. Thanks.

As opposed to checking your programs before upgrading to a non-compatible operating system!

Relax kid so emotional.

"non compatible operating system" that renders $1200+ in software useless is forced obsolesence. The entire idea of business in general is to keep over head as low as possible.

A $30 OS mistake is a comparatively cheaper than fowllowing Apple's plan of forced obsolesence. FCP5 was working flawlessly. Its so worth the upgrade back to Snow Leapord as opposed to keeping a chunky slow lion and spending another $229 on a FCPX downgrade. Thanks for not.

Why did you upgrade without doing any research on what you were buying? Your software relies on the integration of obsolete technology into the OS. Finally, after many years, it has been removed from the OS as this is a fully 64-bit OS, and your software is not, nor is Rosetta, which is required to run your software. I just don't understand why, when you're using such old software, you would upgrade the OS. I don't even know why you upgraded to Snow Leopard.