Final Cut Studio on Mountain Lion?

I'm trying to find out if it will run on Mountain Lion as well. In your case though, if you buy a new iMac, you will not be able to run the installer to run the apps. If you transfer it over from an older machine it may work. The reason is that the Final Cut Studio 2 installer disks are 32bit, which is no longer supported once Apple moved to Lion.

>The reason is that the Final Cut Studio 2 installer disks are 32bit, which is no longer supported once Apple moved to Lion.

FCS 2 runs fine in Lion, so long as you install Rosetta from a Mac OS X 10.6 disc first.

Nothing to do with 32 bit, it's because the installers are Power PC based.

Mac OS X, up to version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) came on a DVD disc which accompanied every Mac sold when it was current.

You will need a retail copy of Mac OS X 10.6 on DVD to install just Rosetta. It costs $29.

A copy that came with a different Mac is model specific and will not install at all.

You are correct about the installer. Don' know why I said 32bit when I meant PowerPC. As I stated, FCS 2 does run in Lion (I am currently using it) but I had to install it from Snow Leopard. I was not able to install Rosetta on Lion. The original poster mentioned that they would be buying a new iMac, so there would not be a 10.6 installer disc to get Rosetta from anyways.

GLmedia66: Rosetta was created by Apple when they made the move from PowerPC processors to Intel so that old software would still run on the new Intel systems. Later versions of OS X required you to optionally install Rosetta if you still needed to but this option was removed in Lion.

You wont be able to install Snow Leopard on a new iMac without doing a lot of hacks, which I would not recommend. Last time I checked, even if you have the Snow Leopard disc, you can not successfully install Rosetta on Lion. What you can do is install Snow Leopard on a external hard drive and run the installer from there and choose to install FCS to your Lion/Monutain Lion drive.

None of that is needed.

You put the 10.6 retail disc in your new Mac, go to the Optional Installations folder and choose Rosetta from there. Click the installer to put it onto your Mountain Lion system drive.

Nick: Trying to install Rosetta from my Snow Leopard retail disc onto Lion did not work for me. If you search online, there are plenty of people who have tried as well and did not have any success. I'm not sure how you happened to be the lucky person to accomplish it that simply. It is my understanding that there is additional code within the OS that is required and missing for Rosetta to properly function in Lion.

GLmedia66:

You may find some useful info on how to install FCS 2 using Terminal to bypass the PowerPC restriction using this link: http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2012-03-11-installing-final-cut-pro-studio-2 -0-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion.html

I haven't tried this and you should always proceed with caution when running commands in Terminal.

Read here about how I did it... FCPS 2 work on Lion?

The solution is about half way through.

Has there been any confirmation that FCP 6.x is stable on montain lion?

I've been searching the web for an answer on FCP 6, and am hoping to learn more in the coming days. One guy over on the Creative Cow forums claims that it is working, but who knows how well. You can see his response here: http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1162488

More people have taken the plunge and installed ML with FCP 6 and are reporting it works. Take a look at this link: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1162499#1162515