Snow Leopard Safe? at DVinfo.net

John Godwin · July 28th, 2010, 01:24 PM

I've been otherwise occupied and haven't been keeping up with the forum for the past few months. I am finally about ready to upgrade my main edit system to snow leopard, and wanted to ask if snow leopard works well with xdcam transfer/FCP, and if all the updates are safe to do...?

Thanks in advance.

John

Robert Lane · July 28th, 2010, 06:05 PM

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John Godwin · July 29th, 2010, 08:44 AM

Well, it's been a weird week on top of a weird few months...

I vaguely recall 2 things ... One was a warning from a respected source about waiting at least six months to upgrade to a new operating system, since things can get broken and take a while to patch, and the other was that there were some issues with XDcam and FCP and Snow Leopard when it was first released. So I have a top of the line iMac that came with and is using Snow Leopard with no problems, but I decided to wait for a good while to put it on my main system Mac Pro, especially since I still feel new to the Mac world and installing the OS update potentially opens cans of worms with the RAID and Kona and such.

I probably could have explained this better in the first place. Not the first (or last) time that will happen. Thanks for the reply.

John Godwin · August 4th, 2010, 02:35 PM

Evidently not. It appears you have to update the sxs drivers. That's the sort of info I was looking for with my original question.

Edit:
Fortunately I have 2 MacBook Pros. Somehow the attempt to reboot after trying to use the express card failed, and now it won't boot from it's own hard drive. It will from an external backup made prior to the Snow Leopard upgrade, and from the install disk, so I'm running diagnostics now.

So probably better to upgrade the sxs driver before inserting an sxs card.

July 28th, 2010, 01:24 PM	#1
John Godwin Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 190	Snow Leopard Safe? I've been otherwise occupied and haven't been keeping up with the forum for the past few months. I am finally about ready to upgrade my main edit system to snow leopard, and wanted to ask if snow leopard works well with xdcam transfer/FCP, and if all the updates are safe to do...? Thanks in advance. John

August 4th, 2010, 02:35 PM	#4
John Godwin Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 190	Evidently not. It appears you have to update the sxs drivers. That's the sort of info I was looking for with my original question. Edit: Fortunately I have 2 MacBook Pros. Somehow the attempt to reboot after trying to use the express card failed, and now it won't boot from it's own hard drive. It will from an external backup made prior to the Snow Leopard upgrade, and from the install disk, so I'm running diagnostics now. So probably better to upgrade the sxs driver before inserting an sxs card. Last edited by John Godwin; August 4th, 2010 at 03:06 PM. Reason: more detail

July 28th, 2010, 06:05 PM	#2
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July 29th, 2010, 08:44 AM	#3
John Godwin Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 190	Well, it's been a weird week on top of a weird few months... I vaguely recall 2 things ... One was a warning from a respected source about waiting at least six months to upgrade to a new operating system, since things can get broken and take a while to patch, and the other was that there were some issues with XDcam and FCP and Snow Leopard when it was first released. So I have a top of the line iMac that came with and is using Snow Leopard with no problems, but I decided to wait for a good while to put it on my main system Mac Pro, especially since I still feel new to the Mac world and installing the OS update potentially opens cans of worms with the RAID and Kona and such. I probably could have explained this better in the first place. Not the first (or last) time that will happen. Thanks for the reply.