Rohmer -5D Mark II questions with FCP 7

Hey Rohmer
I own a 5d and I love it -I am amazed at the video quality and the 7D looks to be even better -I was reading a couple of your past post and - u said u have tested the footage on both FCP 2 and 3-
Well I have too and I thought it ran better under 10.5.6 than on snow. Reason being it the scrub function. I have a MACbook pro 2.33 model and I could scroll though footage fast on 10.5.6 and now on Snow it is real jerky -
I did a clean install of everything on Snow- Im just not sure I am happy with FCP 7 on Snow -will FCP 7 run on 10.5.6 ?
I have just seen some strange things with 7 and Snow -I do love the new color though-
also one other thing -I have been having this "preparing for display output" message come up every so ofter when I have multiple layers in FCP 7 and its annoying -never had it come up in FCP 2
any advice
Matt

Hi,
about your question, I'm running successfully FCP7 on 10.5.8 and I don't see why it shouldn't work fine also on 10.5.6.
From the Apple website, FCS min requirements:
- Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
- QuickTime 7.6 or later
Regards,
Armando.

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