There are a few issues that some Pro multimedia software have with OldWorld Macs. This page will serve as a posting board for users to help other users with problems that they might have. Some of the below notes were taken from xlr8yourmac.com.

Final Cut Pro 2.0.x

-(Ben 11/5/02) OldWorld users need to download and install the FCP2 init to avoid fatal errors if the installer didn't install it.

- (Neal 1/25/02 from xlr8yourmac.com) When playing a clip or sequence in FCP using the Canvas window and Viewer window, small colored retangular blocks fly across the window. Also, audio has very loud hiss and pops occuring intermittantly. Apparently there is a incompatibility with XLR8 and some components of Quicktime 5. But you can only use Final Cut Pro 2 with QT 5.x. If you substitute the extension Sound Manager 3.6.7 (installed by Quicktime 5) with Sound Manager 3.6.5 (installed by Quicktime 4.1.2), the flying retangular blocks in the video and the hissing in the audio vanish. However the intermittent loud audio pops still exist. I tried to eliminate the pops by substituting other Quicktime 5 components with some from Quicktime 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 without success. The pops do not occur in transfering DV to tape so I can live with it.

Final Cut Pro 3.0.x

- (Rob 11/5/02) I fixed the "Isochronousdatahandlerlib" error by installing a firewire card. Then I got "Cant find USB Manager" but installing USB Card support from the Apple site fixed that even though I have no card installed. Thanks to you, I am now running FCP 3.02 in OS 9.2.2 on my PM 9500 with a Sonnet G4
800 upgrade and an ATI Radeon 7000. All seems to work well except for some minor playback and sound quirks that might be able to fix with some more tweaking.

- (Josh 1/25/02 from xlr8yourmac.com) I've had similar Splotchy DV playback problems with my G4 upgraded 8600 under OS9 as Neal(see above) has had with his G4 upgraded s900. I had also just hunted down the sound manager from QuickTime 5 as part of the problem. Unfortunately Final Cut 3 requires the sound manager of QT 5 to run and that sound manager is the one that causes splotchy DV playback. What can be done to fix this is you can use a reseditor to replace the "nift" resources of QT5's SoundManager with the "nift" resources from QT 4.1.2. This will allow clean DV playback and the use of FCP 3. This doesn't fix everything but goes a long way to improving program behavior. What it does not fix is the audio crackle and hiss in playback under OS 9, but you can mixdown audio to take care of that.

DVD Studio Pro 1.2.x

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DVD Studio Pro 1.5.x

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Pro Tools

- (John 6/20/03) Pro Tools 5.2.1 LE + DAE 5.1.1 + AudioMedia III soundcard - Works fine in 9.2.x

- (Gil 5/18/03) III + DAE 5.0.1 The general consensus is that this hardware/software is much to unstable to be usable under 9.2.x...just stick with 9.1