TECH TALK
Museek
Mag
Death has finally come to Final
Cut Pro 7, with the official
announcement from Apple that FCP-
7 won’t launch in High Sierra.
Final Cut Pro, the application with
which many of us learned to edit, and
launched companies and careers, will
no longer open in the newest OS from
Apple, High Sierra. Emails went out to
users (thanks to Josh Granger for informing us) who currently use FCP-7 that
it won’t open anymore if you upgrade. While certain older support apps like
Cinema Tools haven’t opened for several generations of updates, Final Cut
has continued to, and there are companies and even TV shows (See House
of Cards) that continue to use it on a day to day basis. Those companies now
either need to stop updating their OS or move on from Final Cut.
Apple would like you to update to Final Cut X, its newer editing application
that initially disappointed professionals but has slowly beem regaining some
of the ground lost. But as opposed to the Apple vs. Avid world of 2007, the
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