Final Cut Studio Upgrade

Niels Neeskens

Niels Neeskens

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Hey everybody,

So I finally ordered the upgrade to Final Cut Studio 2, because I really want Color and I can't run the Neat Video Noise Reduction plugin on FCP 5. Anyways, I have a Macbook Pro (2,5 years old) with about 100 GB capacity on it, which is completely filled. I can probably get rid of some music to save some space, but never enough to get the space for the upgrade. So my question is; How do I install the upgrade, does it first take away the old Final Cut Studio 1 to create space and then put the new one on, or is this wrong?

Cheers Niels
 
You need to do some massive house cleaning. OSX has one major pitfall: when the boot drive is filled to maximum capacity, the computer crashes. The only way to fix it is to wipe the drive and reinstall OSX.

Is most of the space really taken up by music? You should transfer your iTunes library to an external drive. If there are other non-critical files that are sizable, archive them and clean them out.

And generally, I wouldn't fill any drive (boot or otherwise) past about 85%. Past that point, it can start to slow down.
 
Well I got 4 GB of space left and OSX runs fine on it When I ditch another 12 GB of music, OSX should have enough to run smoothly, but the question is if I can upgrade the old Final Cut Studio with about 14 GB. So the subquestion (if that's a word) would be; Do I trash the old Final Cut Studio files and put the new ones on the comp. Or when I get the package does it speak for itself and overwrites it the old data or something?
 
I am almost positive that you would just update FCP to the most recent upgrade and it will update everything for you. I could be wrong but I never had to uninstall FCP Studio before I did an upgrade. I believe it has to be there anyway since it uses what you already have as a reference for when you upgrade.
 
if you're that tight on space, then don't install all of the extra content... the install won't take up much space.
 
Thanks for the answers everybody! I am getting a new Mac Pro within a couple of weeks so a new larger internal macbook pro drive is maybe a little bit to much then. If I have the new Mac I will be using the macbook pro as a second unit, so I really want to install it the right way. What extra content will I loose by not installing them?
 
I believe that just the programs take up about 2.8GB of space. Like Niels said, set the 50GB+ of extra content to install on an external drive of your choosing.
 
C2V said:
OSX has one major pitfall: when the boot drive is filled to maximum capacity, the computer crashes. The only way to fix it is to wipe the drive and reinstall OSX.
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I think you might be confusing your operating systems there. OS X will go thru quite a few steps to deal with this situation, including warning you, warning you again, shutting down applicaitons to free up virtual memory, and finally shutting blocking any apps that attempt to write to the drive when its completely full. Poorly designed apps that are blocked this way may lock up, but the computer hasn't crashed.

You can switch to the finder to delete files to make room, or you can shut down apps to make room if you're running a lot of them on a machine with limited memory.

You never have to wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. I understand people do that with windows a lot, but you never have to do this with OS X.

I switched to an SSD not too long ago and have been under 10G of free space since then, often getting down to a few megabytes. No problems at all, though I've seen the OS take the above actions.

OS X handles the low capacity situation well.
 
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You are not going to be able to run Color on a 2.5 year old MacBook Pro, I believe. Check the specs, but I doubt the video card will support it.

As to installing, make a decision about music or FCS2.

Mostly because installing it should follow a complete reinstall of OS X freshly

clone your boot drive.
 
David S. said:
You are not going to be able to run Color on a 2.5 year old MacBook Pro, I believe.
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Reading the specs, it looks like Color and Motion won't really work on many of the new MacBook Pro laptops. Am I misreading the specs somehow?
 
David S. said:
You are not going to be able to run Color on a 2.5 year old MacBook Pro, I believe. Check the specs, but I doubt the video card will support it.
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I have a first generation 2.16 Core Duo and everything runs fine. It does have the 256MB graphics card, though.
 
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