ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

10 years, 4 months ago - Dean Harris

I have both FCP7 and FCPX on a Yosemite system on MacBook Pro working fine -- You just need to install them in your Applications folder, but WITHIN SEPARATE FOLDERS. IE. Applications>FCP7, Applications>FCPX No massive work-arounds. Hope this helps.

10 years, 5 months ago - Thomas Caminada

Thank your for your answers, I didn't thought about running two system. It might be a good idea specially for being sure that it works correctly before doing a big jump with no return possible. I'll also try to install FCP7 on a friend's computer who got yosemite and see how it handles it and let you know.

10 years, 5 months ago - John Baker

I have both but you need to run two OSes on different drives. I have one with snowleopard for FCP7 and another with Mavericks for FCP X. The old mac pros can take up to 4 drives usually internally.

Yes FCP X was quite limited when it came with lots of necessary features missing (such as multicam) but it is so much better now. I don't touch FCP7 anymore unless it is to open an old project or someone else's.

So buy a new hard drive and install Mavericks on that. Leave you current one alone with Snow Leopard/FCP7 on it.

10 years, 5 months ago - John Baker

I still recommend using a fresh hard drive every few OS releases, rather than always upgrading the OS. That way it is easy to go back in time to boot from a 5 year old hard drive and know it will work exactly as it used to.

Lauris,

If you use Premier a lot could I ask a favor please? I need exported XMLs of Premier sequence to test support for a tool I make for sound editors. Currently Vordio supports only FCPX but people have asked for Premier support due to the awesome new Reconform feature which alters the sound project to reflect changes the vision editor made. That way can work in parallel easily without any edit lock.

http://vordio.net/reconform/

The more test cases I have the better as every editor works in such different quirky ways.

Thanks,
John

10 years, 5 months ago - Jane Geisler

Hey John - happy to help. You just need an XML from any old sequence to test? Or something specific?

10 years, 5 months ago - Lauris Beinerts

DISCLAIMER: I am not an editor!

I use FCPX at work for casting cutdowns, reel editing and the like, and I can say that it is a very good tool for that, even better than FCP7 - because it is so very DUMB, you just dump files in, and you cna move them around quickly, it renders in the background, and is very quick.

But at home I use FCP7 for checking edits on my short films (I don't edit them myself, but I do cooperate with editors with synched drives and a project on dropbox), and FCP7 is much, much better for such stuff, exactly, because it is not DUMB.

So both are great tools for different things.

Now, if I would update to Yosemite (I'm on 10.9.5), would FCP7 stop working? That would be worrying...

10 years, 5 months ago - Hans Lucas

Sorry if this seems obvious, but if one wants to run FCP 7 and FCP X on the same system make sure you install FCP 7 first. The software needs to be installed sequentially.

10 years, 5 months ago - Jane Geisler

I've got Yosemite 10.10.2 running smoothly with both FCP7 and FCPX installed. (That said, I cut on Premiere when I have the choice.) Haven't noticed any problems with either of the FCP apps when I've had to use them for assistant editing recently.

10 years, 5 months ago - John Baker

Oops.. I meant Jane, not Lauris.. Sorry I read the name as belonging wrong post..

Any other Premier users want to donate me test files? Thanks!

10 years, 5 months ago - Robert McGowan Camera-operator-london.co.uk

Hello Thomas
I recently up dated my OSX to run Yosemitie.
Down side I couldn't get my ESATA card working (Mac Pro 5,1) so not happy about that - hoping a fix will come along -
But I am runing both FCP7 and X however I need needed to up date FCP 7 to the final fix version 7.4 I think? My opinion of Yosemitie - well I'd say stick with Mavericks ( which on both my machines , Mac Pro book and a Mac Pro desktop was really solid) for the time being, Yos seems slightly slower, takes longer to boot and is a little buggy, however all my software now runs with a few updates required to do so.
Hope this helps .

10 years, 5 months ago - John Baker

I don't think you can do a fresh install of FCP7 on Yosemite. FCP7 will still work if you install on an old OS first then upgrade the OS to Yosemite but that more pain than just using a fresh drive.