New here, need help with buggy software

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

Part of the issue may be the version of Final Cut Studio, as version 2 came out before Snow Leopard and still had PPC code in it. Final Cut Studio (2009) would be a better fit for your Mac Pro when running Snow Leopard.

It may have detected the newer version on the Mavericks partition as you stated. Maybe you could manually download and install any updates, specifically the Pro App updates for that version.

Your Mac Pro can actually run Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, which would allow you to run the current version of Final Cut Pro X, but you would have to upgrade your video card.

The crashing can be for numerous reasons. I would lean towards an issue with the Pacifist install work-around, or needing software updates.

C

 

[craven.greene]

Thanks for responding, Cary Cooper. you're probably right about the updates. I'll grab those soon because....

As Snow Leopard is arguably one of the most stable of the Intel systems -so I've heard/ read, etc.- I think I'll continue to use it as the platform for my older Mac Pro Apps, those being Logic 9 and FCP6. If it ain't broke....

That said, I'm simply creating a brand new drive just for those two but doing a clean install of SL, FCP and Logic, in that order. Then I'll add in my Adobe CS6 Master Collection. (Though I miss Soundbooth...)

I'll take my Mavericks up to El Cap eventually when Safari gets dumped on Mav. Which it will. Thanks Apple devos.... I sorta regret selling off my trusty old G5, arguably the best of all mac desktops ever made. Sure smokes my quad Intel and my double quad Intel takes a close second as far as raw power. *sigh*