Final Cut Express

[jsf721]

I have final cut express and I am running snow Leopard. I want to upgrade to Lion but I was told that FC Express will stop working as it is not supported and I would have to buy Final Cut Pro for several hundred dollars. This is for my 13 year old who makes movies for FUN and imovie was not enough. I was also told that the DVD burner drops off wih the upgrade tro Lion.

Can someone confirm this for me? Any suggestions?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Which Final Cut Express version do you have?
If you have 3.5 and above (4), FCE will run, as it is a universal binary.

 

[cgbier]

If you don't do a clean install from a formatted hard drive, it will work (3.5 and up).

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If you don't do a clean install from a formatted hard drive, it will work (3.5 and up).

Lion will not let one install FCE?

 

[0000757]

Lion allows FCE to be installed as long as it's not a PowerPC program. If the version of FCE is made for intel Macs it will run just fine. (So version 3 or 4)

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Lion allows FCE to be installed as long as it's not a PowerPC program. If the version of FCE is made for intel Macs it will run just fine. (So version 3 or 4)

I just got confused by cgbier's post. I know, that FCE 3.5 is the first UB version of it, thus it should be able to be installed on Lion, unless there is some other barrier.

 

[0000757]

I just got confused by cgbier's post. I know, that FCE 3.5 is the first UB version of it, thus it should be able to be installed on Lion, unless there is some other barrier.

I understand what he's saying. He's saying if you don't do a clean install and just upgrade then you won't have to reinstall it.

I think. Anyways OP, If you have 3.5 or 4 then it should work fine.

 

[jsf721]

Which Final Cut Express version do you have?
If you have 3.5 and above (4), FCE will run, as it is a universal binary.

If you don't do a clean install from a formatted hard drive, it will work (3.5 and up).

Lion will not let one install FCE?

Lion allows FCE to be installed as long as it's not a PowerPC program. If the version of FCE is made for intel Macs it will run just fine. (So version 3 or 4)

I just got confused by cgbier's post. I know, that FCE 3.5 is the first UB version of it, thus it should be able to be installed on Lion, unless there is some other barrier.

I understand what he's saying. He's saying if you don't do a clean install and just upgrade then you won't have to reinstall it.

I think. Anyways OP, If you have 3.5 or 4 then it should work fine.

Thanks, I will let you know how it works after the Lion Upgrade. I will also post my version number as I do not know it at the moment.

 

[cgbier]

I meant to not wipe your disk, as I assume, you'd run into the same trouble as with FCS2. It runs on Lion, but you can't install it, as the installer needs Rosetta.

Better save than sorry.