Upgrade Trap
Anyone who knows me will know I’m a rabid and have been ever since came out. As a result I tend to run the latest versions of OSX on all my macs. Yes, there have been some early adopter issues, but generally it’s been fine. Unfortunately I’ve just found myself caught by an upgrade trap. I upgraded to Snow Leopard the day it came out, it’s on all 4 macs in the house and, until now, it’s given me no problems. Today I tried to launch Final Cut Studio (which is a very expensive professional video editing suit), specifically Final Cut Pro… and watched it crash. Now I don’t do that much video editing any more, but I do enjoy it and I do like having the power of FCP, Motion, DVD Studio Pro and all the other goodies but after trawling the internetwebs it appears I have very few options:
- Downgrade my big machine to Leopard – not going to happen
- Use iMovie ’08 on the big machine – would rather not, great though it is, it’s a hell of a step down from Final Cut Studio and won’t do some of the things I’d like to do
- Use iMove ’09 in the laptop – kind of defeats the object of having the two stonking great big monitors on the big machine if I’m just going to use a little laptop for video editing
- Upgrade to iMovie ’09 on the big machine – will cost money as I’d need to get iLife ’09 and not really get me much, and even if I could copy iLife ’09 from my laptop I’m not sure what it gives me over the version I already have
- Upgrade to Final Cut Studio 7 – Lots of shinyness has been added since version 5, but it’s over £250 and I’m not really made of money any more… but then I’m also loath to give up on the vast amounts of money that was spent getting the software in the first place
Something to ponder. In the mean time I’ll try editing the stuff I want to edit in iMovie and see how it goes.