<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Let me paste that quote from <a href="http://www.apple.com/rosetta/">http://www.apple.com/rosetta/</a> again:<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Pro applications from Apple — including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Logic Pro, Logic Express, Shake and Final Cut Express — are not supported by Rosetta."</span><br><div><div><br></div><div>There is the answer. Running PPC versions of pro applications on Intel-based Macs is not supported by Apple (the usual caveats to interpreting that probably apply).</div><div><br></div><div>On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The question wasn't about running Windows, but about running PPC programs. You don't need Virtual PC. Rosetta is built into the Intel version of OSX since the Intel Macs came out.<br><br>There might, however, be some program-specific issues that you can research on Google before you make the leap to Intel.<br><br>Unfortunately, without someone on this list who has 1) an Intel Mac and 2) a copy of the PPC version of FCP, there is no way to know for sure.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>