On the series I am working on right now we switched all four editing stations over to FCP 7 more than a month ago. Today I was waiting to grab a sequence from another editor's project (with the Editshare we can open each others projects, but are protected from accidentally saving over the other person's work) when I noticed she had not saved her project in almost four hours. My first reaction was "wow, even with Autosave, not saving for four hours is kind of brave." Then I turned to the other assistant and asked "Has FCP 7 crashed on anyone that you know of?" He stopped, got a strange look on his face (stranger than normal), thought about if for a minute, and than knocked three times on the wooden table and said an emphatic "no!"
Believe me, I am knocking on wood as I write this, but we have had four edit stations working five to six days a week, minimum 10-14 hour days, for what is easily five, maybe more weeks, and have not had a single crash in FCP. This from a point-o software release! Sure, the Export Marker function seems to have a long memory for deleted markers, and there are a couple other little oddities, but no crashes? None at all in a combined 1200 plus hours? We are admittedly not pushing the envelope of FCP, doing our offlines in anamorphic DV, though we do have a couple side projects working in the new ProRes Proxy format, but still...
What are the experiences of other FCP 7 users? How stable is it proving for you?
OS 10.5 or 10.6?
Did you do a clean install or upgrade?
I did a clean install on a clean brand new 10.6 - no problems at all.
I have 3 other machines to do - I would like to do just an upgrade on them instead of a full OS & FCP install. Thoughts?
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