The other is running 10.8 (to be able to open old Final Cut projects) - BUT the startup Disk on my Mac Book Pro IS the High Sierra 10.14 partition. Happily, the filmmaker community here in Honolulu has come through. Holding down Option while restarting doesnt allow you to choose an operating system on these Mac Pro models.' My Mac Book Pro has TWO partitions. One day, historians and archivists will be trying to reconstruct the past and "unable to open this file type" will be a closed door to the past. couldn't Apple offer a service to open old projects? I'd be happy to pay for it! As my teaching moved online for the pandemic, I've made almost daily videos. it's not the first time.Īs for the current FCPX, it's a great product. Apple had taken an industry standard and thrown it and those using it under the bus.Īgain, I'm likely being overly emotional, but. Lots of folks jumped off the FANTASTIC Apple ship at that point. I lived through the old transition from the "old" Final Cut - an industry standard and widely used - to the "new" Final Cut which left professionals scratching their heads and scrambling to maintain projects Apple no longer supported. I am currently brushing up my After Effects FX skills - for the same film - and thought maybe I'd just move it all over to Adobe. As I'm already an Adobe CC user, I have access to Premiere at no additional cost. On the bright side, a filmmaker friend here in Honolulu has a Mac running an older OS with, he thinks, an older version of FCPX.Īs for switching to Adobe Premiere, that was probably more my emotions speaking. So, with great excitement, I finally collected all my old FCPX projects in a super-duper RAID system on my new Mac Pro, double-clicked on the film and. Yes, I wasn't in on the pertinent FCPX conversations.īut with an incredibly demanding new job, some things fall by the wayside. Moved to Hawai'i, new job, my old Mac Pro tower bit the dust, didn't want a "wastepaper bin" Mac Pro, waited for the new Mac Pro to come out and the time to get back to one of those films that never got a final edit. Never opened older projects, all of which were stored in stacks of external hard drives. ![]() I've used every update too, with shorter projects. I used FCPX extensively for years: made two feature-length films and much more.
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