Buying X, any reason for Motion, Compressor, Mountain Lion?

[elmerlang]

I expect to buy X soon, am enjoying the Trial. Any opinions on buying Motion and Compressor, too? (Green screen in X seems much improved, can't think of another reason to use Motion.)

Also considering updating Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, a dirty install. Opinions, warnings? I would like to keep FCS3 running, too.

Jus' curiously, what is the additional content downloadable for X? (Seems the Trial doesn't allow.)

[cgbier]

The extras are more (pro-) codecs. If you have the old Compressor, you don't necessarily need the new one. You just can't send projects directly to Compressor from X, but have to do a media export first.

Motion is the development platform for FCP. All plugins and filters you have in X come from Motion. But as you have Motion 4, and you don't want to roll your own effects, you can stick with the old one.

FCS3 and X run perfectly on Mountain Lion. There has been one complaint that there are strange things happening with Connected Clips under 10.8.1, but that has only been one ....from a total noob, so nobody actually knows what he did.

[cgbier]

Elmer, you might want to have a look at this one:

[elmerlang]

Thx.

[cgbier]

So what did you decide on?

[elmerlang]

It'll be a few weeks yet, post cc bill, but I think I'm going X and Motion, probably decide on Compressor later. I have Compressor 3(?), rarely use it. My needs have mostly been youtube, looked fine exporting from FCP7, expect the same from X, but if new project gets completed it could be 90+ mins and might wanna dvd it.

[cgbier]

Don't throw 7 out. The DVD "authoring" in X is nothing to write home about. DVDSP still rulez (or Encore).

[elmerlang]

Yep, I actually just reinstalled 7, STP and Compressor. I've made over a hundred shorts with FCP 1-7, I like to tweak, and if I need to post at new places I gotta export with it.

Wow, forgot about DVDSP. Will have to re-install when needed. Thx!

[elmerlang]

And I want to get Mountain Lion, too. Since Project and Event files are on another drive I imagine I can do a dirty install upgrade with no problems to FCPX.

Thanks for all your help, you been great!

[cgbier]

A dirty install won't hurt your apps (if they are at least universal) and data. Backup would be nice, though.

I have gone from Tiger, Leopard, SL to Lion on of my machines without any hurt to FCS2. X had no issues with going from SL to Lion either.