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Compatibility between G5 and Macbook

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Bob Jovi

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I'm pretty set on getting a macbook soon and was wondering if there would be any issues with the G5. As I plan to do some editing on it in Final Cut and then transfer it over to my powermac to finish it off and do the Motion elements.
Editing it in the universal version of FC then transferring it to the PPC version won't be a problem will it???
 
No, editing documents / graphic files / video files / music files is never a problem going back and forth between Intel and PPC Macs. You won't even notice that anything is different.
 
Bob Jovi said:
I'm pretty set on getting a macbook soon and was wondering if there would be any issues with the G5. As I plan to do some editing on it in Final Cut and then transfer it over to my powermac to finish it off and do the Motion elements.
Editing it in the universal version of FC then transferring it to the PPC version won't be a problem will it???
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Universal FCP files don't work with the old PPC 5.1 version of Final cut.

Just make sure the Macbook and G5 have the latest 5.1.2 universal version on them and it should work fine.
 
Aaah, oops, really? That's interesting. So they made a file format change when they went universal? That's the first time I've heard of something like that. Sorry.
 
TheNightPhoenix said:
Universal FCP files don't work with the old PPC 5.1 version of Final cut.

Just make sure the Macbook and G5 have the latest 5.1.2 universal version on them and it should work fine.
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You mean version 5.0 (PPC)...

But yes, you need to have the same version running on both machines. This sucks for me because I can't use the broadcast monitors at my school for CC because they are still running 5.0...
 
bigbossbmb said:
You mean version 5.0 (PPC)...

But yes, you need to have the same version running on both machines. This sucks for me because I can't use the broadcast monitors at my school for CC because they are still running 5.0...
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Hmmm i thought the last downloadable update was 5.1 for PPC, and thats where the universal started. Thats why i was so confused why they couldn't communicate.
 
bigbossbmb said:
Nope, last PPC only version was 5.0.4, I believe... 5.1 was the first Universal
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Oh.. I'm so very confused. I could have sworn we had two machines with the same version of the software but one was PPC and one was universal.

Maybe i'm thinking it was same version of the OS:confused:
 
TheNightPhoenix said:
Oh.. I'm so very confused. I could have sworn we had two machines with the same version of the software but one was PPC and one was universal.

Maybe i'm thinking it was same version of the OS:confused:
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You can run the Universal Version (5.1) on a PPC or Intel Mac, but the PPC version of FCP (5.0 and older) won't run on an Intel Mac.


Lethal
 
TheNightPhoenix said:
Oh.. I'm so very confused. I could have sworn we had two machines with the same version of the software but one was PPC and one was universal.

Maybe i'm thinking it was same version of the OS:confused:
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Universal is universal because it runs of both PPC and Intel Macs ;)
 
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