Update it to 10.1.3 and everything will work (expect no backward compatibility)
Time for me to drop out of college then. This is ridiculous.
What school are you at? Can't you use Creative Cloud / Premiere Pro CC? Much more suited to real-world production.
The real world uses either Avid or FCP lol
If you made a Time Machine backup of Mavericks before you installed Yosemite, you can be back in Mavericks in a matter of moments with everything running. If not, download Mavericks (if need be) and install again.
How exactly does one download Mavericks again? I know there are tons of torrents out there, but torrents are blocked on my campus, and I need to downgrade. Thanks
Time for me to drop out of college then. This is ridiculous.
Does Apple prevent you from reinstalling OS X Mavericks? If not I'm finding this all to be a little bit dramatic. I totally appreciate it sucks you can't run this app on OS X Yosemite, but let's not pretent there are no other options.Time for me to drop out of college then. This is ridiculous.
You need to update FCPX to the current version 10.1.3. Your old version will not run on Yosemite. 10.0.8 the version your running is 4 or 5 updates old. That's why is doesn't work.
Hopes this helps.
Can't you just upgrade to 10.1.3 ? It's working fine on Yosemite for me so far.
EDIT: Wow, sorry for being redundant, others posted nearly at the same time.
It's safe to say someone downloaded OS X Mavericks at some point if said person ran OS X Mavericks before. Even if your Mac shipped with OS X Mavericks and you never downloaded it yourself it's still added to your Apple ID.Mavericks is no longer available in the app store, so unless you previously downloaded Mavericks, you won't be able to download it anymore.
Yes because it's so funny. *******.
Time for me to drop out of college then. This is ridiculous.
Out of interest does 10.1.2 work ok with Yosemite?
Heard bad things about 10.1.3 so held of updating... failing that I guess its stick with what I get till the next FCP update
I'm (very) in the real world, and we solely use Premiere inhouse, and require Premiere for any out-of-house jobs so we can work with the project files easily. Hasn't been an area of contention for anyone we've worked with, and we push BIG jobs.
Many of the big edit houses here in LA use Premiere. Sunset Edit, Milk, etc are all big Premiere houses.
Many seasoned editors, sports media and news organizations still use Avid, but honestly nobody uses FCP anymore. 10 is far too simplified and the interface is choppy on even the highest end Mac Pros, and FCP7 is far too old at this point - it can only address two 32-bit cores, 4GB of RAM, and limited if any GPU acceleration. This is why it crashes so damn often.
Premiere is cutting edge in terms of hardware support and on-the-fly transcoding of nearly all codecs, operates exactly like FCP7 and isn't absurdly expensive or complicated to train on. No reason not to use it over Avid unless you're doing a feature.
Now that we know the kid is running an illegal version, I think it's safe to say that he won't be posting again about problems.