Will 'real' versions of FCP stop working with Lion?

If that should happen, I think there would be a serious revolt. The sad thing is that I would not put it past Apple to do it. They've done it before, and have no compunction about it.

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Lion runs FCS beautifully, but there is a bit of a catch for FCS2 users at least. Here's my story:

I'm testing Lion and have been running FCS2 since I upgraded from Snow Leopard. The other day, I decided to pick up FCPX before reading all the issues with it currently. (My bad.) Being a diligent user, I actually uninstalled FCS2 prior to downloading FCPX. After seeing that I would still need to use my FCS2, I tried to reinstall it only to find out that (at least FCS2's) installer is PowerPC and, hence, will not run on Lion. So Lion will run FCS fine, but you just can't install it with Lion. Only way I was able to get it back was to restore from a Snow Leopard clone, and re upgrade to Lion again. Major pain as you can imagine. Again, not sure if this is an issue with FCS3.

Seems to me that FCS3 would reinstall okay with Lion since it is an Intel only app.

Just to be clear. So long as fcs 2 and fcp6 are already on your system. After installing Lion, Fcp6 will still run?

Not sure if I would take the word of apple store staff as gospel. They are all a bit clueless when it comes to FCP

Well, I have FCP 6.0.6, and not working with Lion for sure.

Hope apple will allow FCS2 /FCP6 owners a discount upgrade option. That is if they want us to continue cuting with fcp..Complete death is a shame! All that money, projects, of course the time editing.

My advice would be to stop any and all future OS and QuickTime updates or upgrades to your system if you plan to continue to use either FCP 6 or FCP 7.

-DH

Some have apparently had success running FCP 6.06 under Lion:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202755?answerId=15759398022#15759398022

I am currently running FCP 7.0.3 under Lion, and it's running like a charm.

Good advice, however, history may show that this is like saying if you fall in the ocean, hold your breath. You eventually have to breath.

I went through this in the last of the System 9 days with my Macs. Among other things, I have a small production studio and was running Digital Performer with installed MOTU PCI cards.

I just didn't upgrade (very unlike me, I wanted to upgrade). However, slowly but surely, other programs came out with upgrades I wanted or needed or I saw a new program I wanted or needed that just wouldn't run on System 9 anymore. So onto OSX on my PowerPC..... and then upgrades and new programs demanded that I move to an Intel machine.... so I did that.... hmmmm.... come to think of it, maybe there is a lot of thought to making hardware and software obsolete.

What I'll probably do is never upgrade this Intel MacBook Pro computer and will keep FCS running as long as I can, or until someone comes out with a "converter" utility to get all my projects into something else (Premiere or maybe Apple will have something better by then). When I see a program I've GOT to have, I'll buy a new computer.

BTW.... My video projects are typically multi-camera shoots of my music bands -- 3 to 6 camera shoots. Then I take the footage and use the FCS Multicam feature to edit it all together. I gave FCPX an objective review, but that is at least one of the features (multicam) that is missing. And for me, and many others reading from the various threads, the number one reason not to make the move is that all the work I've done for the past 10(?) years on FCP (since v1.0) will be gone.

What I can't understand is that there have been MAJOR motion pictures edited on FCP and it seemed like Apple would take over that world. So what do they do? Kill, not slowly, not gracefully, but in an off-hand announcement that FCPX was better and there will be no more FCP. I actually thought I read that wrong the first time I saw that..... What's that about, anyway? FCPX reminds me more of an amateur video editing program. Maybe that's the crowd they are going after, but then just call it something else like iVideoFun and continue to support FCP.

Amen.

Couldn't agree more,

What upsets me the most is that my investment of thousands of dollars on upgrades, third party plugins, hours of training are all just became worthless. I almost feel like I've been strung along in a shadey investment deal.

this is becoming somewhat of a habbit at Apple to force peoples arms to get them to pay for upgrades.

Aperture, DVD Studio Pro, FCP...

Isn't anybody revolting?

diskfac wrote:

this is becoming somewhat of a habbit at Apple to force peoples arms to get them to pay for upgrades.

Aperture, DVD Studio Pro, FCP...

Isn't anybody revolting?

Apple is more of a hardware company, that's where they make their money... Apple's software is designed to promote hardware upgrades. (not insidiously) When you buy into Apple you buy into a constant upgrade path.. New software often only supports new hardware.. at the same time they quickly drop support/sales of software.. they've even been known to keep older (2-3years) software from running on newer operating systems, even though the program would run perfectly well.

Don't expect a change anytime soon, it's obviously worked remarkably well for them.

Robert,

I also have FCP 7.0.3 running well on a Lion machine (knock wood!). Funny though, as I migrated from Snow Leopard, all Studio application exept Cinema Tools launched nicely. Watch out for this!

-Andrew