Installing FCP using terminal

You need to ask this in the Final Cut Studio forum as this one is just for FCP X.

I'm 99.99999999% sure that what you want to do is impossible.

Message was edited by: Ian R. Brown

Final Cut Studio IS the forum you need.

It is for all the Final Cut Pro versions from 1 to 7, together with the companion apps of Compressor, Motion, STP etc.

northbeachfilms wrote:

… but your comments are not assisting me. please don't waste anymore energy on my thread. thanks.

you're asking for support of a product, which is not topic of this board.

btw:

does this simple google hit solve your problem?

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

The installer application is looking for a .pkg (installer package), not an .app (uncompress application). Change your path to point to a .pkg and it may work.

What's wrong with just copying the application to your /Applications folder using the standard drag copy?

Brad - You can't drag and drop legacy FCP like you can with FCP X as there are numerous "hidden" folders that also need installing separately.

Just noticed your response ............ assuming you can find all the hidden folders it may work.

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I do not use Final Cut Pro, but I play one on Television! 😁

Here is a quote from Wikipedia:

In April 2004, version 4.5 of Final Cut Pro was introduced and branded by Apple as "Final Cut Pro HD" due to its native support for Panasonic's tape-based DVCPRO HDformat for compressed 720p and 1080i HD over FireWire. (The software had been capable of uncompressed HD editing since version 3.0, but at the time had required expensive video cards and high speed storage.)

Any program written in 2004 would have been a PowerPC application. After Apple migrated all of its future Macs to the Intel platform in 2006, it included in OS X Tiger (and later Leopard, and optionally in Snow Leopard) emulation software that would allow most PowerPC apps to continue to run in Intel. This sofware was based upon technology that Apple licensed from a 3rd party and which Apple called Rosetta.

Apple's license to include Rosetta in newer versions of OS X expired with Lion and now Mt. Lion.

Hence no matter how well you use Terminal, or even Pacifist to install FCP 4.5, it just will NEVER run under Lion on your Mac.

If your MacBook Air 11" is old enough (2010, MacBookAir3,1) to boot and run Snow Leopard, you can either partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it. You can then "dual-boot" into Snow Leopard when you want to run FCP 4.5 or into Lion when you need iCloud or otherwise.

Alternatively you can install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 8 on any 11" MacBook Air and have FCP 4.5 running concurrently with Lion, such as here where the PowerPC app Appleworks is running on a Lion Mac:

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Apple is now selling Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only).

Parallels offers a 14 day free trial download from its website. It sells retail for $79 but can be found for a discount on the internet.

NOTE: You are confusing your version with Final Cut Express 3.5 and Final Cut Studio 2, both of which will run in Lion, but whose installers have problems in Lion and Mt. Lion due to a "bug" in the installer program. For those versions, as pointed out in Jeremy Johnstone's blog, using Terminal (or alternatively, using Pacifist) to install will achieve success in using those versions in Lion.

Go to Apple Menu, About this Mac, More Info, System Report, Model Identifier and tell me what model you have such as MacBookAir3,1

Some models will allow you to dump Lion and install Snow Leopard instead.

If not, the Snow Leopard Server into Parallels route is not that daunting: you actually use it just like Snow Leopard client and ignore the Server applications.

According to MacTracker, you have the mid-2011 11" MacBook Air that came with Lion installed and presumably will not book Snow Leopard.

That being said, there are quite a few threads on this forum that suggest that some of the 2011 model year Macs CAN run Snow Leopard: the problem is that it will only boot 10.6.7 or 10.6.8, and the retail version sold by Apple is 10.6.3...

The workaround is to attach an external hard drive to a Mac that WILL boot Snow Leopard, purchase SL from Apple ($20), install SL into that HD and use Software Update to fully update it to 10.6.8.

Then attach the external HD to your MBA and use Startup Manager in System Preferences to see if it will boot up your MBA. You then can either use the "dual-boot" method I mentioned above, or backup your files, wipe the internal HD, clone the external to your internal and then restore your data files...

Another unorthodox method is to purchase SL from Apple,put it on the shelf and search the Internet for the modified Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD 10.6.7. Someone took the 10.6.3 Install disc from Apple, upgraded it to 10.6.7 and recreated it as a burnable disc image.

North Beach: are you in San Francisco, Los Angeles...? Did you post about a problem installing Final Cut Studio 2 on a Lion Mac on a Final Cut Pro/editing forum recently? Send me an email to MichaelLAX at AOL...