HT200166 Can I upgrade fromFinal Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X

Can I upgrade from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X ?

Two more important tidbits of information:
1) There is a free trial of FCP X, that is fully functional for 30 days, so you can try it out and learn the ropes before you buy.
2) In case you want to bring in some old projects cut in 7, and work on them in X, you are going to need a tool called 7toX to convert them.

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    I am a Mac Pro (earlier 2008) owner. I upgraded it to 4 x 1.5 Tb Seagate hard drives and 10G of RAM from OWC (Other Word Computing). First let me tell you NOT to buy from Apple Store for your hard drive and/or memory upgrade. They are totally out of price list. I got my Mac Pro first with one 500 Gb Seagate drive. Then I added 2 x 500 Gb hard drives from Apple. I payed them 199,00 $ each
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    *+Source Apple Store :+*
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    Yesterday I posted this into a thread to answer a user :
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    +With all these apps running, I still have 6.48G of Free RAM out from the 10G installed!+
    +It's when I start hungry applications like VMWare Fusion running Windows XP, or Quicktime with a lot of movies opened that I could see the memory level going low!+
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  • Upgrading Final Cut Express to Final Cut Studio

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