Final Cut Express HD 3.0 on MacBook?

[mattsh]

Can anyone offer any insight into this? I have Final Cut Express HD, and I own a MacBook.... I installed it, and it installed fine, but then says I am missing an "AGP Video Card". Will it not run on my MacBook? I understand video performance may not be great... but come on. I spent $1,400 on this laptop and can't run video editing software?!?! Is there anyway to make this thing work?

 

[mattsh]

It can work w/ a quick adjustment.

1. ctrl click FCP icon
2. select view package contents
3. w/in contents, find and, in text edit, open "info.plist"
4. find AGP and change it to PCI.
5. save the file.

Any idea WHY that fixed it? It's working just fine now.

 

[holamiamigos]

cool you answered your own question! sorry no help though

 

[Rod Rod]

Your fix worked because the app was looking to make sure an AGP card was present.

If I were you I'd try to get the Universal Binary version of FC Express. Hopefully you could get it for less than $99 that Apple seems to charge (although I think that upgrade is good for FCE 1 and 2 users too). Maybe once 4 comes out, the same $99 will upgrade you. Why go UB? It'll probably if not definitely be faster.