Q: what happens when apple is the manufacturer?

hb_wilson wrote:

 

I am trying to reinstall Final Cut Studio 2 after DVD Studio started having issues. However, it won't allow me to run the install because it says that it no longer supports PowerPC applications. They don't make DVD Studio anymore and I still have clients who request DVDs. I paid $1800 for this suite and can't afford to update. How can I reinstall?

 

FYI...I'm running OS 10.7.5.

You will either need to reinstall Snow Leopard from your last Time Machine Backup or System Clone from before you updated, or else run Snow Leopard on a seperate partition of either your HardDrive or an external HardDrive. You can run it in Virtual Mode if you have 10.6.8 Server. (Searh for Michael Lax's instructions for this in these forums.)

Cheers

Pete

hb_wilson wrote:

 

I found this solution in another thread (will this work?):

 

work around: (found it online, seems to work fine so far).

I think it's only the installer that presents a problem...

Get Mac OS10.6 (Snow Leopard) (less than 50$), and install only optional installs. In the package you'll find Rosetta and Quicktime 7 (also usefull). Ignore the rest.

After installing Rosetta you're able to install FCS2 without any problems. I haven't tried creating a project yet, but FCS2 opens as usual and seems to be functional.

Havn't tried to deinstall Rosetta (never change a running system.... *g*), but I think FC should still work.

You cannot install Rosetta in Lion or Mountain Lion.

Pete

There is a bug in the installer application of FCS2 that, when run in Lion or Mt. Lion, results in the Dialog Box that makes it appear as if this installer is written for the PowerPC.  The application itself will run fine in Lion or Mt. Lion.

One solution is to install FCS2 in Snow Leopard and then upgrade to Lion and/or Mt. Lion.

There is a history on this forum that suggests that if you use your Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD to install Rosetta into Lion, that this will result in the installer application working to allow you to install FCS2, which itself will then work in Lion. 

It is my belief that Rosetta is not actually functioning in Lion, but gets around this bug long enough for the program to install FCS2 into Lion.  However, it is also my belief that this method may cause serious problems in Lion down the road.

It seems you have followed this path, but I now recommend that you attempt to uninstall Rosetta from Lion.

A slightly more laborous, but safer process is to use Terminal (located in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder), with the method described by Jeremy Johnstone in his blogpost: Installing Final Cut Pro Studio 2.0 in Lion w/o Rosetta. This method gets around the installer bug.  

Also, look for the comment listed on June 4, 2012, which has additional Terminal instructions for installing the other discs in the full set:

http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2012-03-11-installing-final-cut-pro-studio-2 -0-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion.html

I now realize that you were merely quoting another post in another thread and you have not yet attempted to install Rosetta into Lion.

I again strongly recommend, then, that you use the Terminal method described in Jeremy Johnstoine's blogpost, as linked above, instead.

There is apparently another installation method using Pacifist, but the links to using that method are no longer valid.  If anyone else has the instructions using the Pacifist method, please repost them specifically, or use a different, valid link.