Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro 7 on Sierra

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Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro 7 on Sierra

I'm running Sierra 10.12.2 and recently installed Final Cut Pro 7 (from Final Cut Studio.) Currently running into two problems:

1.) First attempt at Log & Capture and FCP7 crashes. Every attempt since has resulted in the same crash at the same point. I found some old DV tapes that would be fun to digitize/edit, but looks like no luck?

2.) Downloaded and installed the FCP 7.0.3 update (after learning the trick to right click -> open in order to get around the new security.) Download went through and Installation completed but FCP still says it's just running FCP 7 (not 7.0.3)

I'm hoping one of these problems may help me out with the other, but any help solving either of them would be greatly appreciated.* Thanks!

*Note: I've deleted my FCP Preferences in the secret library, and watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCIrsGYw21Ihttp://,

still scratching my head

Final Cut Pro 7, macOS Sierra (10.12.2), null

Posted on Jan 6, 2017 12:50 AM

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Answer 1

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Shane Ross

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Jan 6, 2017 11:36 AM in response to ACamp11

1) FCP 7 was discontinued nearly 6 years ago.

2) When it was discontinued, the OS at the time was 10.6.8. That is the LAST OS that officially supported FCP 7 and all the Studio apps

3) Every OS update that comes out goes further away from supporting FCP Studio. Apple isn't taking into account their functionality when releasing new OS versions, because they are now only supporting FCX and the new Motion and Compressor.

4) Motion and Compressor (and parts of Color) from Final Cut Studio 3 stopped working when 10.9 came out.

If you need Final Cut Studio to work and be fully functional, you need to run it on an older computer that supports 10.6.8. You might even get away with 10.7 or 10.8...but I know that apps break at 10.9.

Sorry man, this is what happens when software is discontinued.

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team ben

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Apr 24, 2017 5:13 PM in response to Shane Ross

I'm running it on the latest 5K iMac with 10.10.5. I'm exporting old feature films to .edl and .xml and importing into Premiere CC2017. Flawless so far.

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team ben

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Apr 24, 2017 6:21 PM in response to ACamp11

I originally installed FCP7 on my mac running 10.9.1 and it's currently up and running on 10.12.4

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team ben

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Apr 24, 2017 6:22 PM in response to team ben

Although it was the first time I got the warning that Qmaster will no longer be supported. Since FCP 7 uses Qmaster I'm guessing there should be some problems. I have yet to experience them.

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Answer 5

Sep 27, 2017 8:51 AM in response to ACamp11

I have a FC with Aja module on Sierra 12.. log and capture works fine but I have a problem with a DV deck. I think the Firewire support inside FC don't work in Sierra and future release..

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