Is Final Cut Pro 7 compatible with Mavericks?

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FCP was abandoned by Apple years ago, and so you are really on your own if you do the upgrade and have problems. There appears to be no consensus opinion - there are reports it works, doesn't work, or in my case when I loaded FCP7 on a non-mission critical Mac running Mavericks, it was working but was quirky and felt borderline unstable.

The option of running a dual boot system should be looked at if you must upgrade to Mavericks.

MtD

When Apple release FCP-X, they abandoned support for all previous versions announcing that previous versions are end of life.

FCP-X has nothing in common with FCP7 and earlier other than the name. It is a completely different application without built in support for projects done on earlier versions.

What this means is that as Apple moves forward with Operating Systems and hardware, those changes are made without any regard as to if those changes will disable or cripple FCP7.

RichardFinlay wrote:

It's still an Apple product, no?

It's still an Apple product but they do not support it, nor have any regard for how OS or hardware changes impact its performance.

MtD

I bought a new MacBook Pro last year and installed Final Cut Pro 7 (actually Final Cut Studio 4). I upgraded system to Mavericks without getting enough information about potential problems. Now do have problems with FCP 7. So I'm working somehow, but I save my work very often and sometime need to take a step back, because project ceases to open.

FCP studio 7 works fine on my new generation 6-core mac pro with 10.9.4. am using a blackmagic ultrastudio mini for video monitoring in HD. initially gave me some headache, but works fine now, too, after recent update.

but why do you want to update if you do not need to?

You are right. I shouldn't upgrade... Thank you for your opinion.