FCPX and FCE4 on same HD ?

Will it be possible to keep both FCE4 and FCPX on same Mac.
I am an Hobby Filmaker and I would like to keep the possibility to edit the "old" stuff.
Thanks for your opinion.

Unless this only applies to Final Cut Studio, I understand Apple recommend you run the two on separate partitions.
Andy

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paul71054 wrote:
... Any ideas?
add a few seconds black to your project.
Try again.
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I do most of my video work on an 3.4 Ghz i7, 16GB iMac, but I'd like to be able to use a Macbook Pro, when traveling or for handing off tasks to a secondary machine. My current Macbook is looking like it's on its last legs so the time is arriving to replace it with an upgrade.
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to the genius bar. Five "geniuses" tried to figure out what was wrong for SIX HOURS!
Continually assuring me this was not usual. Yeah, right. Across the internet the spinning ball of death with FCPX and Mavericks is pretty well known.
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I just migrated my iTunes library to an external HD to recover space in my main internal drive only to find out that when I start FCPX and go to the Audio section FCPX tell me that I have to load I Tunes to populate the section with my music, when I load iTunes separately from the external drive everything loads and all is ok.
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          separator_not_allowed   = 10
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