FCP 7 and El Capitan?

The laptop was given to me after a show I worked on. The software was loaded. If it was pirated, certainly not by me. When I went back to the line producer when this issue first came up, he told me the program was downloaded.

If you were given/sold a laptop with software loaded on it...and you don't receive the installers for that software...that's not legal ownership. And if your producer pirated the software, it still isn't a legal copy. Whether you did it or not, this isn't a legal copy.

Shane, can I ask which version of Avid Media Composer you are using with OS 10.9.5? Also, how did you buy 10.9.5 six months ago? On another thread, some people are saying Yosemite is like 10.9.6--much like Mavericks.

I'm running the latest, Avid MC 8.5.1.

And I didn't buy Mavericks. I believe that was the first one they gave out for free. I downloaded it, like I downloaded Yosemite and El Capitan. Downloaded, and then made installer USB flash drives.

Thanks for the tip! One should download an OS as soon as it's made available and make installer drives whether one installs it or not. I didn't do that, so I had to buy Snow Leopard which I am now using. Didn't cost much but it was only by asking an Apple Genius that I found out where and how I could make the purchase.

I might add to this that if you're running Adobe apps, new versions run only on osx 10.10. So you'll have to upgrade that OS if you want to keep up with Adobe. I just had a chat with Adobe Tech Support and that's what they told me.

In order to get FCP 7 to work on El Capitan. You need to do the following...

1. Move Motion 5 out the of Applications folder. (Don't delete it, as you'll move it back in)

2. Have Motion 4 installed (Change the name of the App to Motion 4 once installed)

3. Move the following files inside the Components folder to another folder. (don't delete "Components" folder)

a. Go to System Hard Drive/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/ and Create another folder called "Components (not used)" or something equivalent.

b. Move files inside System Hard Drive/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components/ (when you move files press Command Key to actually move them, and not copy them).

Note: Also you will get a dialog to put in your admin password while moving the files.

c. Start FCP 7, and it should now open up.

Notes:

You won't be able to use Motion 4 stand alone or with FCP 7, as it won't work with El Capitan, but yo can certainly use FCP 7.

There may be other instabilities, but at least you can open you projects, create an XML file, and then use 7toX for Final Cut Pro App http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/7toX/

4. If you want to go back using FCP X move the Motion 5 App back into the Applications folder, and put all the files above back into the "Components folder" by pressing the Command key while moving the files. (once again the command key moves the files as opposed to copying them.)

Hopefully this helps.

Cheers.

It's can't install in Captain running on MacBook Air 2014. Make some impr

I am attempting to boot FCP 7 on El Cap with no luck. do I need to re-install FCP 7?

Running 10.11.6 on mid 2010 Mac Pro.