Buying X, any reason for Motion, Compressor, Mountain Lion?

Elmer_Lang

Elmer_Lang

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I expect to buy X soon, am trying the Trial and like. Any opinions on buying Motion and Compressor, too? (Green screen in X seems much improved, can't think of another reason to use Motion.)

Also considering updating Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, a dirty install. Opinions, warnings? I would like to keep FCS3 running, too.

Jus' curiously, what is the additional content downloadable for X? (Seems the Trial doesn't allow.)
 
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Downloadable content is primarily generators and lower third graphics, etc. Nothing too cool.

One of the reasons to purchase Motion is the ability to create custom drop-in lower thirds and titles. Create and publish in Motion and they show up right in FCPX, retaining the ability to edit the text within. It's also a much easier program to use when producing animated sequences with a traditional-type timeline. I'd say it's definitely worth the $49.
 
Compressor is worth the price so you can use compressor presets in X to export without sending to compressor, also sending to compressor is the only way in fcpx currently to export a piece of a sequence by sending it to compressor then setting in/out points there.
 
Extra content are title, effect, generator templates plus a sound effects library. All very nice quality. You can customize most of them, too.

Be sure Final Cut Studio 3 is installed first. Update to Mountain Lion first, if you can. Installing Final Cut Pro X will move all of the FCS3 apps into a folder called Final Cut Studio. Because you can't have two apps with the same name in the Applications folder at the same time.

Be sure you've got at least 8GB RAM.
 
If you want to keep cs3 going, don't upgrade past snow leopard. Apple dropped Rosetta beginning with Lion, and so sc3 becomes a digital paper weight. The system upgrade only costs a few buck, but Adobe will clip you about a grand for the privilege. I wouldn't mind so much, but cs5.5 and cs6 on the Mac are pretty buggy, especially acrobat and anything java.

Grant
 
Actually, CS3 runs just fine in Mountain Lion. It doesn't need Rosetta. Rosetta is for PowerPC stuff that's really simply too old to even bother with now. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will run 32-bit apps. It will not run 32-bit kernel extantions (kext) inside of apps that require it. Which are not many. But CS3 runs just fine in ML.

But go with Pixelmator, better GUI, easier to learn and use, does everything I need.
 
I may have been mistaken about cs3, but cs2.3 definitely won't run (personal experience). I thought 3 was the same.

For sure, the bugs on the new cs versions are real on the Mac. I don't use cs for anything video, but the apps I do use such as Acobat, DW, and others, have operational bugs and are prone to lockups. Once again, this is from my own experience running an 8 core tower with both snow leopard and lion on clean installs.

Grant

Grant
 
Having run FCP X, Motion, Compressor, etc, on Lion for some time now, I've not had any issues at all (2008 Quad MP). Mountain Lion is extremely stable.
 
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