Quicktime upgrade safe?

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enrico

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I need to upgrade my Quicktime from 7.1.3 to 7.4.5. Is this a safe move considering I'm finishing a feature film in FCP at this time?
 
What version of FCS and OS X are you running? What's come up that's forcing you to upgrade? If you can hold off I would, but if you can't clone your system drive to a back up just in case something goes horribly wrong.

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I heard that using a program called Pacifist will help maintain changes safely when upgrading. Any thoughts about using it in response to the general rule?
 
I haven't heard of time machine...just read about Pacifist. Anyone used either one?

I'm in FCS 1 and OSX 10.4.11. I'm being asked to upgrade quicktime because I just bought Logic Studio, (want to do a soundtrack mix with it) and it says the minimum Quicktime is 7.2 or later (I have 7.1.3). Could I possibly still run Logic Pro in the old Quicktime, though it says otherwise? My FCP feature film is in completion phase, and a little nervous what to do.
 
if i know apple, you will get an error message and logic won't run without getting to at least 7.2

as i remember 7.2 was good. the problem is going to be finding 7.2. if you update thru apple they will throw you the latest version only which will likely be buggy with the older fcs 1 and logic, etc... who knows?

time machine is part of osx now but that just started with leopard. since you are still on tiger, it doesn't apply to you.

here's a foolproof solution for you. get an external drive or add another internal drive and do a fresh install of osx and your apps. then you can update everything and see what happens. if it's cool, then you know you can update. if it sucks, then you boot up from your old drive and nothing about it has changed.
 
cheezweezl said:
what about time machine? has anyone here actually used it and does it work?
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Time machine is pretty sweet. Works well and transparently. I just upgraded to Leopard and haven't had any issues. My favorite feature is that if you select any quicktime movie in the finder and press space bar, the movie immediately pops up in a little window and starts playing. Coverflow in the finder is also pretty sweet for shuffling through media.
 
cheezweezl said:
here's a foolproof solution for you. get an external drive or add another internal drive and do a fresh install of osx and your apps. then you can update everything and see what happens. if it's cool, then you know you can update. if it sucks, then you boot up from your old drive and nothing about it has changed.
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Thanks for all the advice. It's really nerve racking thinking about doing this now, while I'm at the end of my feature film. I've never done a fresh install of osx and apps before (but I do have an extra ext hard drive). Not sure how much memory I'd need, or if there's anywhere on the net that prescribes step by step how to do it. Answers to these questions would be highly appreciated!
 
boot from osx dvd. install osx to external drive. when complete, boot from external drive with fresh osx. update osx and quicktime. install logic and fcs and see how things pan out.... if all good, you know you can update qt on your other drive with no prob.
 
I've copied the entire film project on a seperate hard drive, to test it out later. Using a program I just got called Super Duper, I can copy my current hard drive to it. Should I partition it from the film project? How do I boot (set that up) from the external drive then without using the tower's drive, when I start the computer. Every step makes me nervous, and I so appreciate your patience and great help!
 
Go to /SystemPreferences/StartupDisk

Choose the volume you wish to boot from. Click Restart.

Your Mac will then reboot from your selected (cloned) disk.

Do the reverse to run from the system disk again.


Voila

mike.c
 
Thank you for all the clear help!!! My hard drive's cloned to the Lacie with the film project on it. I'm gonna boot up on it now, update quicktime, install Logic Pro, and see. I'm wondering about trying the Super Duper program again to test updating Quicktime from my 7.1.3, all the way to 7.4.5, cause it's supposed to iron out problems. Anyone tried it?
 
When I set up the Lacie as start up, and clicked restart, the computer tried to boot up from the Lacie Hd, but the G5 just wouldn't start up off that. Anyways, I guess it's there as a back up, when I try upgrading Quicktime on the G5.
 
Rather than safely updating Quicktime from 7.13 to 7.2, anyone know if it's just as safe, or safer even to go all the way to current update 7.4.5? Any bugs along the way to worry about (re my film project, see earlier)?
 
Or you can clone your boot drive to a FW drive and revert to it if you have issues.

SuperDuper does this and so does the free Carbon Copy Cloner
 
Just want to thank everyone for the upload support!!! I purchased Super Duper, backed up everything on the external drive, then I managed to upgrade to the latest Quicktime 7.4.5 and added the new Logic Studio 8. Everything worked without a hitch. Whew.
 
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