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tmarket

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Sep 14, 2010
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I have Final Cut Pro 6 installed on my MacBook Pro, it works great and have many projects saved with this version. I want to instal Final Cut Studio 3 which include Final Cut 7, but would like to keep FC6 as it is, as a backup software I should say, to be sure that I'll still be able to work on my old projects that I don't want to be updated.

Will a new version of the program overrun, update the old version (FC6) making it unusable?

Thanks a lot for that
 
Unfortunately this isn't possible as when you update Final Cut Pro it also updates a number of core components.

The only way of having both applications is by having two separate boot drives - not particularly convenient on a laptop.

(also you should purchase both full versions of the software - buying an upgrade but continuing using the old app is a bit of a cheat)


Although realistically you should just upgrade and not look back.

(remember that the best way to upgrade FCP is to do a fresh install of the entire operating system. Installing over the top of the old application is not recommended)
 
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