Will FCS3 fun on OSX Lion? New Macs?

Jarek Zabczynski

Jarek Zabczynski

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No one has been able to answer this for me.

I read heard somewhere that FCS3 needs the Rosetta component of Snow Leopard to run the installer properly, this is something that OXS Lion is dropping support of. If that's the case, will it be possible to get it installed or running on Lion? Or even new Macs going forward as they will most likely ship with Lion pre-installed. And those may only be able to run Lion and upward.

Any thoughts?

I am more concerned about getting it running on upcoming Mac Pros rather than Lion.
 
I'm guessing you'd be able to force install it with Pacifist... although I don't know for sure. I'm interested in a concrete answer as well, but I'm guessing someone will figure out a way to make it work.
 
I'd recomend against running out and installing Lion on any FCS 3 workstation until Apple clarifies their support for that software combo (if any).

Noah
 
NoahK said:
I'd recomend against running out and installing Lion on any FCS 3 workstation until Apple clarifies their support for that software combo (if any).

Noah
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Totally. I always wait till the next OS gets to the .4 or .5 release before updating anyway, usually a year or so into it.
 
Can you actually downgrade an operating system? So when you buy a new computer with lion pre-installed, can you then install snowleopard on it?
 
Sure- you could create a Restore image of a system in Snow Leopard and then use that to restore a machine that shipped with Lion. The Disk Utility application that comes with OS X would do that. Not ideal but a way.

Noah
 
Well, they've confirmed it runs on Lion...your concern specifically was with installing it on Lion. So if the catch is that you have to go Snow Leopard->FCS3->Lion in order to actually get it installed, is that still a good thing?
 
Does anyone have information to indicate that there will be problems either installing or running FCP in Lion?

Or is this just a guess?
 
I don't understand what you are trying to say with your comment.

The reports are that it will run.

Did you have some information that refutes that?

If so, let us know, because everyone would appreciate learning about this.

thanks for anything you can provide.
 
I would strongly urge anyone who's interested in running FCS3 on Lion to backup your Leopard or Snow Leopard install first. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your startup drive to a separate drive, then if you need to, you can simply format the startup drive & clone it from the backup to restore your system. I've been doing this for years as a regular process, and it has saved my ass more than once.
 
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