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Lion kills SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Color

After installing Lion on my cloned boot drive FCP 7.0.3 runs but SoundTrack pro, DVD Studio Pro and Color return an error message indicating Lion can't run PowerPC programs. They also have a white slashed circle over them indicating they aren't compatible.


This wasn't a widely advertised restriction of Lion prior to its release.


I'm thankful I have a fully operating Snow Leopard installation.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 5:23 AM

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Jul 22, 2011 11:33 AM in response to Stephen Hope1

I don't know why you would have the PowerPC-only versions installed on an intel machine? It's very weird, because they should be Universal. This may mean that you were running those apps using Rosetta under Snow Leopard, but Rosetta isn't installed with Lion. You should just re-install from the FCS3 DVD and the proper Intel versions will be placed in your Applications folder.


I just launched every FCS3 app under Lion and they all work fine, except for Cinema Tools (which unexpectedly quit.)

Aug 4, 2011 12:22 PM in response to Jesus Ramiro

So do you get an error? If so, what is the error?

Is anything appearing in the Console when you try to launch Soundtrack Pro?

I'm not having any problems here, so without more information, it's hard to say what the problem could be or how to fix it.

We never heard back from the original poster, but we have had a couple of "me too" responses with no information or follow up.

Feb 2, 2012 12:05 AM in response to Stephen Hope1

Here is another interesting issue. I have a mac book pro with SL and logic pro 9 installed and after upgrading to lion sound track pro works like a charm.


What has me really bewildered is if i upgrade first to lion and then install logic pro 9 on as i did on my imac sound track pro instantly crashes.


is there a patch or anythign to fix this as its annoying to be doing music production on my imac and have to pull out my macbook to use soundtrack.


both machines are intel based machines.

Lion kills SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Color

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