Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Feeling pretty screwed over when upgrade to Lion killed my Final Cut Pro 6 Studio use - Does anyone know if Mountain Lion is compatible with FCP6?
Or should I go back to Snow Leopard.
Final Cut X isn't an option - it doesn't open my FCP6 project files. Who's idea was that? Thousands of hours of work suddenly "unsupported"
Somehow I don't think Steve would be happy about this...
Be sure to get Andy's phone number, so he can help your daughter out in the future when some important project is due and the Mac starts freezing up without explanation. I'm done with this thread...
GOOD LUCK!
At this point we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. She already spent the money on both the iMac and the FCP 6. She can't return either and doesn't have the money for FCP7 and doesn't want the newest version. Nor could she afford it. So if it works it works if it doesn't then we wipe it and come up with a new game plan. Not a big deal. At this point its only time spent. If it locks up later I'll be sure to come back and announce that you were right and I should have listened but at this point its out last option to get this working. Unless someone wants to donate a copy of FCP7?
It's NOT your last option; unanswered posts:
A. Pacifist
B. Jeremy Johnstone's Terminal method
Model Idenifier;
and I asked you what city she is located in...
GOOD LUCK!
So it appears the Pacifist is some kind of app used to extract. Never heard of it until I googled it. Have no idea how its used. I'm not a Mac person. Google had a different idea on Jeremy Johnson so that ones lost on me too. Model ID? Will post tonight. Not at home right now. City? Roanoke VA.
Where did you get a Snow Leopard disc so quickly? Does it look like this:
and NOT like this:
I don't have enough frequent flier miles for Virginia...
I will be waiting to hear the Model Identifier tonight.
Looks like the top one. A friend of mine had a copy from an old Mac he has since turned into a paper weight. He told me I could give it a shot and see if it worked. It didn't boot.
Instead of a paper weight, you friends computer will run FCP 6!
Only if you have a utility that will extract the lightning strike from it.
Have your daughter take a look at Adobe Premiere Pro on their "Creative Cloud" - it's a $19 monthly subscription for what is probably the best of the "prosumer" editing software available today.
- just make sure her graphics card is one of the Adobe recommended cards
Adobe saw Apple abandon all of us (when they left FCP 7 and when to "X") and they put some mojo into Premiere... many editors I know have gone to Premier from FCP 6 & 7 and now swear by it - and some describe it as FCP 8 - because the interface is so similar to the older versions of FCP.
Rendering is GREAT in Premier - you can keep working while your machine renders... as opposed to being down while your machine chews away (as in the FCP world)
FCP 6 (and 7) are not supported by Apple anymore - no more updates EVER.
- those of us with hundreds of projects cut on FCP 6 are stuck keeping an older system around to run 6 with - just in case our clients need a revision done on an older project (as just happened to me last week)
Before your daughter starts cutting projects on an "abandoned" program - that newer Apple computers won't even run - maybe it's better she puts her version 6 on EBAY and goes with Premier.
There's a real possibility that all this stuff you are trying to do now to make yesterday's software run today will just come back and bite you tomorrow.
My first Apple was a Mac 512K (bought it in 1982 I think) - I've been loyal to Apple - but with this FCP deal they sure haven't been loyal to me... to any of us. Check out Adobe Creative Cloud - look at the support and updates offered - and compare that with the fact that Apple no longer supports their earlier versions of FCP.
what2**** wrote:
Rendering is GREAT in Premier - you can keep working while your machine renders... as opposed to being down while your machine chews away (as in the FCP world)
For what it's worth, Final Cut Pro X also renders in the background.
Matt
does Mountain Lion run Final Cut Pro 6
