upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project
by George Cragg
on
Jan 2, 2006 at 9:15:06 am
Hello,
Have people experienced problems upgrading from 4.5 HD to 5 in the middle of projects? An interesting project has come my way but it has been shot on HDV so i need to get ver.5 however i"ve still got some unfinished projects on 4.5. Any advice?
Re: upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project by Matte on Jan 2, 2006 at 12:15:53 pm
You can run BOTH versions on the same Mac.
I believe you should alter the NAME of FCP 4.5 so the Mac (and YOU) can tell to two versions of the program apart.
Be sure to make copies (I'd even burn them to a CD) of your 4.5 project files (not the media) to hold (just in case) and only open these older projects from inside the 4.5 version.
Once you open an older project in a new version of FCP, it won't "go back" and open in the former version (Hence the backup copies, just in case.)
Re: upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project by Steven Gonzales on Jan 2, 2006 at 3:41:28 pm
I bought a 300 gig drive, put it in my firewire enclosure, and formatted it with two partitions of 150 gigs.
Then I used carbon copy cloner to clone my system drive to one partition to run Panther and 4.5. To the other partition I loaded Tiger and FCP 5. The I pulled my old system drive, and put this new drive in its place.
I just boot to the system I need for the particular project. The old drive is my backup until I decide to use it for something else.
Re: upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project by bogiesan on Jan 2, 2006 at 9:52:45 pm
Good advice for a critical path.
Allow me to repeat it:
Make a clone of your system, heck, make two.
here's another hint: Test the clone before you wipe your drive for Tiger/FCP5.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: "For crying out loud, read the freakin' manual."
Re: upgrading to FCP5 from 4.5HD mid project by John Fishback on Jan 3, 2006 at 1:28:42 am
I installed a second internal drive and installed Tiger on that. By using the Startup Disk utility in System Prefs I can choose to be in Panther or Tiger. Using FCP5 I've opened and worked on at least 6 projects started in 4.5 with no ill effects at all. I still backed all my project files up on two external drives.
