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Final Cut Studio: Failed Installation September 17, 2009

Posted by 37prime in Announcements, Apple, Applications, Apps, Mac OS X, Media, Movies, News, Resources, Security, Snow Leopard, Tech, Troubleshooting.
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I was working on a Mac Pro with newly installed Snow Leopard on Wednesday September 16th, 2009. I tried installing Final Cut Studio (2009) and it kept failing.

After a long troubleshooting session, I finally found out what the culprits were.

I managed to duplicate the error on a 13-inch MacBook Pro also running a newly installed Snow Leopard.

Final Cut Pro 2009 Failed Installation

For some reasons on both the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro, Final Cut Pro installation failed if iLife ‘09 installed. Make sure all iLife ‘09 is up to date, especially iDVD.

I succesfully installed Final Cut Studio sans iDVD Theme Element.

fcp09 custom install no idvd

If the installation still failed, you can separately install Final Cut Studio elements. The error most likely occurred after Final Cut Pro and Colors are installed. Therefore, install the followings separately:

  • Motion Contents
  • Audio Contents
  • DVD Studio Pro

It is likely that there was an error while reading the installation disc. For example the Mac Pro I was working on was unable to read Motion Contents disk 2. By installing Final Cut Studio components separately, I managed to get all of them successfully installed.

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1. Kush - September 20, 2009

So what is the fix? I am having the same problem on a fresh installation of snow leopard on a MacPro

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2. five - November 13, 2009

install each app separately. first fcp, then studiopro, then audio, then motion. should be ok. SL for some reason isn’t able to read them all in one batch.

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3. Asif - November 15, 2009

i tried studio pro after fcp 3 same issue?

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4. jax - November 24, 2009

im running into similar problems… i have SL as well. Im trying to install downloaded software for FCP 5 ( i need the older version). An error message keeps popping up saying “Your computer does not have the hardware required to run this software. See the read me for details.” Any ideas on how to get around this?

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37prime - November 25, 2009

I don’t think FCP 5 would run on Snow Leopard at all.

Sorry.

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