[MacDV] Re: Final Cut Pro 4.5 & QT7 compatibility question

[sb]

As I replied to the original poster, you should stay with QT 6.5.2 if you
are staying with FCP 4.5 on OS 10.3.9

If you want to do the upgrade, do the Tiger clean install first, then
upgrade to FCP 5, which will give you QT 7, which you can software update to
the current verson (7.0.2)

This is from quite a bit of experience (over 200 installs).

 regards,

 sb


On 9/17/05 4:29 PM, "Derek Roff" <derek at unm.edu> wrote:

> We have Final Cut Pro HD (4.5), on a G5 PowerMac 1.8 GHz dual, running OS
> 10.3.9.  We upgraded to QuickTime 7 Pro (a new code number is required,
> which we paid for).  Most of our Final Cut projects wouldn't open properly,
> and several of them caused Final Cut to crash while opening the project.
> 
> We downgraded to QuickTime 6 Pro, and all our projects work again.  There
> is a downgrade installer on the Apple web site, apparently due to this or
> other problems.  I don't know the details and causes, but our experience is
> that QuickTime 7 Pro and Final Cut Pro HD have serious incompatibilities.
> Or perhaps the incompatibility is between QT7 and Panther.  In any case, it
> didn't work for us.
> 
> Derek
> 
> 
>> Does anyone know if QuickTime 7 is compatible with Final Cut Pro 4.5?
>> I've been hesitating to update QT from version 6. I don't care about
>> having to pay for the Pro version for QT7 again, I'm just concerned
>> with whether QT7 will mess things up. I'm using OS 10.3.9.
> 
> Derek Roff
> Language Learning Center
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