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Final Cut Studio 2 and OSX Lion issues

I tried to upgrade to Lion on my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro, but afterward I tried to startup Final Cut Pro 6 (which is part of FCS 2), only to be told that FCP6 is a PowerPC application and it wouldn't run. I don't understand this, since I have Shake 4.1 installed on the same computer, and both applications are Universal Binary; after the lion install Shake still continued to work (Shake is older than FCS2, and Motion replaced Shake) while FCP didn't! I had to wipe my haddrive and downgrade back to Snow Leopard, just to use FCP6! What gives?

PM G5 (Late 2005) 2x 2.3GHz, 6.5GB RAM | MBP 17, Mac OS X (10.7), iPhone 4 32GB- v4.2.1

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 9:23 AM

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Shane Ross

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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 10:33 AM

FCS 2 is a four year old application...and Lion is brand spankin' new. Sometimes old software has issues on new operating systems.

Why did you install Lion? Do you NEED it? Does it do something that Snow Leopard does not? Why not just stick with what works? Especially if you earn a living with that machine. There is no need to install the latest and greatest JUST BECAUSE it is the latest and greatest.

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Goldfish

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Nov 3, 2011 6:46 AM in response to Terry Smelker

This is the reason that I always partition my boot drive as soon as I buy a new computer. That way I can have two completely autonomous systems. This gives the ability to test drive a new OS and/or continue using a previous OS.

Combine that practice with doing a periodic clone of older working boot volumes with Carbon Copy Cloner and you can almost completely avoid situations like this.

Best,

Nov 4, 2011 8:19 AM in response to Terry Smelker

Hi there,

I got my work around. I used Migration Asssitant to transfer all files and apps from my MBP running OSX Leopard to my MBP running OSX Lion. FCS2 (FCP6) and Adobe CS5 transferred also and run smoothly without any prolem. Only Cinema tools seems to have crashed in the process.

So yo need to install FCP6 on a OSX Lion machine, get a mac with OSX Leopard and FCS2/FCP6 installed make a new user and migrate that user to your Lion machine.

Start FCP and type your serial number.

I had to clean up some double apps after that process, but it might be possible to migrate just a single app??

Then delete the user on both machines.

regards,

Sunshine

Mar 11, 2012 12:44 AM in response to Terry Smelker

For those of you wanting to get it installed and either don't want to hassle with Rosetta or don't have a 10.6 install disc handy, here's an easy solution: http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2012-03-11-installing-final-cut-pro-studio-2 -0-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion.html

Final Cut Studio 2 and OSX Lion issues