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Using Final Cut Pro 4.5 (HD) on Macbook Pro

Mar 12, 2007 9:20AM PDT

My friend cannot use her Final Cut Pro 4.5 (HD) on her macbook pro because an error states that she is missing the AGP hardware. I figure the program is not working with her PCIe gpu and misses the old AGP instead. How can she fix this? She's tight on money so she doesn't want to spend any more than she possibly needs.

Thank you for your help.

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I presume your friend is using the
Mar 12, 2007 9:51AM PDT

Academic version which was sold with all the warnings about no updates?

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I'll ask her
Mar 12, 2007 2:05PM PDT

I imagine she might, she just told me about the problem today,
thank you, I'll be sure we talk with apple.

Is that true though, about the academic version not being able to update? If I get a product or program through apple using my student discount, does that mean the version is academic or is it only academic when you purchase it from, say your college?

I've never purchased anything academic or with educational discounts so I don't know how this works.

I definitely will want to update my purchases in time so I need some assistance.

But yes, I will try to find out if her version is academic, I didn't ask.

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whether updates to certain applications
Mar 13, 2007 2:34AM PDT

obtained via educational pricing are possible or not depends on the application and the manufacturer.

In this particular case, I *think* FinalCut version 4.5 was pre-Intel-Mac. The current version is 5.x and includes whatever the Intel-Macs need to operate in that environment (in addition to other new features - the current version also runs on PPC based Macs, too).

When the Academic version of FinalCut is launched, the splash screen says "Academic version"... ALL the features are the same as the regularly priced version (which is ~2x more than the academic price).

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By the way, has she tried contacting Apple?
Mar 12, 2007 9:57AM PDT

That would be my first step...