OS Update - Mavericks? Affects FCP 7?

Straight Edge

Straight Edge

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Hey, fellow filmmakers. I've been using Final Cut Pro 7 since 2008 and I love it. It's amazing still, but some things won't work with my current OS -- which is 10.5.6. Things like Film Convert, which is also amazing. I really wanna try it, downloaded the trial version, and it wouldn't install because my OS is "old." It has been suggested I upgrade to Mavericks OSX. I have never updated my OS before and so I am skeptical about it as I've also heard it could affect apps like Final Cut Pro 7 negatively -- thus negatively affecting my independent film work?

Question is, has anyone had any problems with FCP7 or Final Cut Pro Studio for that matter after upgrading to Mavericks? If you use Film Convert, does it that work well with Mavericks? Thanks.
 
I would not suggest upgrading to Mavericks if you rely on FCP 7 (I would not upgrade past OS 10.8.x). You can either make another boot drive on your harddrive and have one with your current OS and one with Mavericks or, if you have a Mac Pro, you can buy a new harddrive and install Mavericks on the new drive.
 
For whatever it's worth, I'm running FCP7 without issue on Mavericks (mid-2009 MBP 17" 3.06 8GB RAM). If you're concerned, you could back up your entire boot drive to an external bootable drive; then after you upgrade you can always revert if applications don't work properly.
 
mcbob said:
For whatever it's worth, I'm running FCP7 without issue on Mavericks (mid-2009 MBP 17" 3.06 8GB RAM). If you're concerned, you could back up your entire boot drive to an external bootable drive; then after you upgrade you can always revert if applications don't work properly.
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adkimery said:
You can either make another boot drive on your harddrive and have one with your current OS and one with Mavericks
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I'm not so well-versed in computer hardware workings. How does one back a boot drive to an external bootable drive aka an external hard drive?

And how does have two OSX's like that? I don't have a lot of space on my internal hard drive. 18GB, really.

Know of any good video tutorials? I checked out Film Convert's page. They suggest OSX 10.6 or later is required for CPU render and OSX 10.7.4 or later is required for GPU render. What's the difference between GPU and CPU? And are any of those OSX's free like Mavericks?
 
Thanks to all who replied.After I install Mavericks, do I need to reinstall Final Cut Pro Studio? Or is it already there as before?
 
I've had no problems running FCP7 on a new MacPro with Mavericks 10.9.3 BUT I would stick with os x 10.9.2 or below for now
10.9.3 has been giving me a headache, bugs here and there, things not working as they should
 
I upgraded to Mavericks and FCP 7 seems to work just fine so far.

I created a secondary partition on my boot drive that I loaded Mavericks on. I did this in case FCP 7 did not work so I could easily un-partition the drive and still have a working FCP. I didn't have to re-install any software beyond the Mavericks update. The only thing that didn't work immediately for me was my printer, but Epson recently released their printer driver updates through the Apple Store so after those became available, everything worked flawlessly. There are lots of great tutorials online that can show you the process. Its very straight forward and you won't hurt your original system at all.

I'm sure one day FCP7 will not work, but I have already moved most projects over to Premiere, so I'm only using it for older legacy video projects.
 
FWIW, I recently got a new nearly full-loaded iMac 27" (3.5i7, 4GB VRAM). Installed FCP7 and recut a short project with no issues. Also running Adobe CS6 and CC without problem thus far.

The caveat: when I first got the machine, I used Migration Assistant to move over the old system files. Big mistake. FCP didn't work right and I couldn't re-install. Ditto on some elements of CS6. I wound up blasting the whole system with a reformat and fresh 10.9 re-install, after which everything has worked spiffily.
 
mcbob said:
FWIW, I recently got a new nearly full-loaded iMac 27" (3.5i7, 4GB VRAM). Installed FCP7 and recut a short project with no issues. Also running Adobe CS6 and CC without problem thus far.

The caveat: when I first got the machine, I used Migration Assistant to move over the old system files. Big mistake. FCP didn't work right and I couldn't re-install. Ditto on some elements of CS6. I wound up blasting the whole system with a reformat and fresh 10.9 re-install, after which everything has worked spiffily.
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and after the fresh 10.9 install, you had to individually re-install fcp 7 and all your other software?

also, do you have fcp 7, cs6 and cc all on the same hard drive partition?

thanks in advance.

rob
smalltalk productions/nyc
 
Yes and yes. I started with the sparkly-clean iMac + 10.9.3, installed CC (since that's my main edit platform going forward), tested it, installed CS6 (just Pr, Me, Ps, and Ae) and tested, and FCS last (just FCP, Compressor, STP and Motion since I never used Color). Then went through and manually migrated all the email, bookmarks, ancillary apps, files, etc. Helped immensely to have .dmg files of the CS6 and FCS install disks, otherwise I'd have to wrangle up an optical drive solution.

That whole process took about half a day. Compared to nearly half a week futzing around with all the things that didn't work right after first using Migration Assistant, it was simply the easiest and best solution.
 
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