Boyd,

Maybe not--I'm guessing Apple wants to save money on printing manuals and packaging. They're probably also depending on Diane Weyland's and others' books to help out.

Heath

No hardcopy manuals period, as far as I can tell.
Also no PDF I believe, just a Apple Help Viewer version ... and the online docs of course:
Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual

It overwrites, but you should deinstall FCS before doing a new full install. Otherwise, you may have some problems with Apple Qmaster & Compressor ("Qmaster's file not found" when launching a compression through Qmaster). That's what happened to me and to a lot of guys (Have a look on Google).

Wow, I see the academic version is priced at $899.00. FCS2 academic was priced at $549.00. Seems silly to pay $899.00 and not get any upgrades. Not sure about their new pricing model.

Absolutely. This would save so much time in my workflow when starting to work on projects. I spend too much time forgetting to reset my scratch, then having to re-render once I've figured it out and work at getting rid of unwanted renders in other projects... PITA! And if I import anything during that time...eeks!

Agreed.

But a while back, I considered getting an Apple accreditation. It turns out that our standard way of working - ensuring the scratch disk is assigned per project - was not just a no-no, it was cause to not award an 'Apple Certified' whatnot. Thus, the certification didn't seem worth bothering with.

The Apple team were adamant about this. So I wonder if this will ever be fixed.

That's exactly what I got from the Apple retail store this afternoon. You have to ask them for the upgrade version. Inside the sleeve is a very nice sturdy cardboard box, and the discs and docs inside that are in those fold out cardboard boxes they've been using for the last couple of years. The manual is electronic, and there's a brief introductory manual for FCP (doesn't touch on any of the other apps.

Does that mean full versions have the manuals?

heath

Have they ever worked with multiple projects at the same time? and tons of removveable hardware for backup? Illogical!

That spec for Color is if you only have one screen. If you have a second display to connect to use with the scopes and preview then it should work for you just fine.

Is LiveType still included in FCS3?

Ronan, thanks for the info.
I was planning to uninstall FCS2 using FCS Remover.
One question on installing the FCS3 upgrade...

Does the upgrade come with a new serial number or do I simply use the serial number that came with FCS2?

I only ask because with some software such as Adobe Suite, the upgrade installer looks for a previous install of the Adobe software.

If FCS3 looks for a previous install of FCS2, and it's been removed from my system before I install FCS3 then there could be install issues. Just checking...

Thanks again for the insight.

In the distant pass, you would keep the previous version on your system and the discs would just upgrade it. For the last few years, the upgrade is actually a full version of the software, and you should just uninstall the old version of Final Cut Studio.

Heath

Hmmm...

Still no firewire support for Color.

Still no funds available to provide accurate display of color grading.

Still completely winging my color correction.

Still can't figure out why Apple won't add this simple feature for those of us who aren't made of money/shooting exclusively in HD.

Pass.

Christopher,

I recommend one of the MXO boxes:

Scan Converter - Output and Monitoring Device - Matrox MXO

It works with Color 1.0 just fine. However, check this out:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1151

Heath