FCP 6 and Mavericks

I want to upgrade my OS to Mavericks so I can buy/install Logic which is awesome and has vastly outpaced my current DAW, Digital Performer over the years. I'm still using FCP 6. I can't upgrade to FCP 7 of course (would if I could) and FCP X won't work for me: I have years of work for real, paying clients that isn't backward compatible with FCP X. (not to mention the investment in 3rd party filters that haven't been re-written for X)
Bottom line: I want to buy more Apple software (Logic), but if FCP 6 won't work at the end of this odyssey, I will be really and truly scr***d. Apple, you're not making it easy on a fellow.
Anyway, does anyone have experience running FCP 6.0.6 under Mavericks? My son has Mavericks on his iMac and FCP 6 opens and seems to run fine on it. But that doesn't mean there aren't hidden problems.
Thx
27" iMac - 3.4 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM
current os 10.7.5

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, my son's iMac won't run my clients' projects - low power, no 3rd party filters.
SInce my original post I discovered something totally crazy, while FCP 6 seems to run fine in Mavericks, the installer won't. It won't even run on my current machine! (The only reason I have FCP 6 on my current machine at all is cause I used Migration Assistant to begin with to move it from my old PowerPC machine - which I've since given away!) Bottom line: if my machine were to drop dead for some reason, despite my solid backup routine, I have no way to finish three jobs I'm in the middle of for actual flesh-and-blood paying clients as I couldn't reinstall FCP6.
I'm totally working without a net and I didn't even know it. Wow, Apple. Thanks.
Again, if I had the option to upgrade to FCP 7 I would but I don't. It looks like Yahoo Studios - a company I cut for 5 days a week - will be switching to Premier CS6 so I guess that's what I'll be doing now. I'm so bummed. After something like 15 years on FCP...
(Here's another bit of irony, Yahoo isn't in the hurry I am to make the switch cause Apple made a special arrangement with them to provide FCP 7. It's just a little guy like me trying to make a living that gets left in the cold. Fun stuff.)

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Welcome to this forum,
Sorry to hear you so struggling with this issue.
And I doubt whether I can solve this for you, but I can say a few things.
The title of this thread is:
Graphics render bug in FCP 6 and 7 - Dare to prove me wrong?
I'll prove you are wrong. Or actually you've already proved yourself wrong in your post:
-Ran the shot and graphic through after effects and premiere pro separately (different video programs) to see if final cut pro was causing the problem, same problem with those programs.
Seams that I try to annoy you, but I'm not. It's not a joke. The fact that other applications can't handle it as well AND the fact that Animation Codec (Which is pretty lostless) does not have this problem, tells you that the problem is likely the low compression you want OR the footage itself. And I dare say it's BOTH.
I downloaded your testfile and have opened it in FCP and I can see in the Vectorscope that your color Red is too hot.
[Click here|http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz356/rienkL/Screenshot2010-04-02at1324 20.png] to see the vectorscope of your picture?
You also see the small boxes (clockwise)
Red, Magenta, Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow. The signal of your picture should stay somewhere between those boxes. You should read [this article|http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_scopes.html] (two third on the page) about the vectorscope. Also has a picture with the range to be broadcast safe.
So back to your picture and your vectorscope. You'll see that just along the right side of the R in the vectorscope there's a peak which goes way out of the range. And that's exactly the color of your graphic.
I tried isolating that color, reducing the saturation, and then do an export, but that failed. You should adjust that within the PSD's first and then see how exporting goes.
So now you are thinking: My client wants his own colors! Sure he does. But those colors were probably designed for print, which does have another colorrange. Simple technical story. You're bound to specific saturation. Going over that means troubles....
And I'm not claiming that your problem will be solved when you adjust this. It is still possible that h264 just doesn't like red too much. Maybe that's on purpose. Our eyes are most less sensitive to red, so that gives the compressor some extra room to compress in the reds (Don't know if this is what compression developers do; just thinking out loud, just an idea...)
Hope this helps at least a little.
Rienk

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