OS X Lion is available - Who is upgrading?

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perproductions
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Just seeing how many mac users will be upgrading to Lion??

Im downloading it onto my macbook pro at the moment!

Lusky
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perproductions wrote:
Just seeing how many mac users will be upgrading to Lion??

Im downloading it onto my macbook pro at the moment!

Me too. Same as yourself. Macbook pro first. Not letting it anyway near my editing machine yet

John Paul

SimonMW
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After my experience of being an early adopter of Snow Leopard I'm not even going to download Lion to my MacBook Pro until there have been a few stability updates.

mooblie
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Not me.

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dominicwitherow
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I expect to quit Macs when my current machine reaches the end of its useful life, as I can't imagine that Apple will be making more than one further generation of MacPros (if that). My current setup works very well and I'm switching to a workflow that will allow me to open all projects on PC too (XML out of FCP - can't quite work out PP yet and too busy to learn just now - and ramping up my use of AE over Motion). Apple's direction seems clear to me and it does not include professional film and video production.

So, no, I will not be using Lion as far as I can see.

Dominic

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Not me, I was going to but decided to stay with SL & FCP7 for the time being. I might get an additional drive and try it out later. As someone with experience of Apple releases I'll wait for the first rush of updates to come out first ;)

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PaulD
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Hi
The $64,000 question for me is "what's happened to QuickTime?"
Since under SL the obsolete QT 7 was the only way to get video stuff done, what has Lion got to replace it?
ie What has QT X evolved into?

MAGLINK
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Happy with SL and FCP 7 so will be staying on that level for a while!

Lusky
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here is Apple's page on recovery, you can perform a clean install of Lion without Snow Leopard, although if your HD is faulty and you need a new HD I'm not sure what you would do

http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/

AH!! read the rest, internet update available if you install a new drive hmmm so you don't need SL at all then if you have a new machine but older than today and you need SL

John Paul

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I'm not even sure what Lion offers that really changes things. Most of it seems to be gimmicks, or functions that I'd bet a fair amount of money won't work without bugs for a while.

I'd love to know what happens about hard drive space due to Versions, and given issues that some have been having with autosave in FCPX I'm not sure I'd entrust the new OS wide auto save thing with important work until it has been tested by guinea pigs, I mean early adopters.

One thing I did find interesting was that Apple have stated in their press release that fairly soon you will be able to purchase Lion on a USB stick from Apple stores.

Lusky
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doesn't look like FCP 6 is supported in Lion

John Paul

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SimonMW wrote:
I'm not even sure what Lion offers that really changes things. Most of it seems to be gimmicks, or functions that I'd bet a fair amount of money won't work without bugs for a while.

I'd love to know what happens about hard drive space due to Versions, and given issues that some have been having with autosave in FCPX I'm not sure I'd entrust the new OS wide auto save thing with important work until it has been tested by guinea pigs, I mean early adopters.

One thing I did find interesting was that Apple have stated in their press release that fairly soon you will be able to purchase Lion on a USB stick from Apple stores.

Most o/s upgrades are gimmicks, in my opinion. I had a free download of Lion from Apple (see my News posting) and have found it to be working on my iMacs and macbook pro without problem so far. I am not letting it onto our MacPros for a good while though, just in case.

I want to see how it works with FCP X, BUT, WON'T GET ROUND TO THAT FOR A bit (whoops, hit caps lock by accident)

Chris
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