Apple Pro Apps and macOS High Sierra compatibility

What versions of Final Cut Pro X are compatible with macOS High Sierra?

During Apple’s 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference, macOS High Sierra was announced. Apple has a public beta test programme, where you can sign up to try early versions of Apple operating systems before they are released.

macOS High Sierra is supposed to a version of the Mac operating system that consolidates on previous features and stability. This gives Apple and third-party developers the chance to catch their breath for a year. They can concentrate on reliability and stable improvement.

The question for Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor and Logic Pro X users is whether to update their Macs to High Sierra.

Apple says that if they are using older versions of these applications, if they want to use macOS High Sierra, they will need to update to

• Final Cut Pro X 10.3.4 or later
• Motion 5.3.2 or later
• Compressor 4.3.2 or later
• Logic Pro X 10.3.1 or later
• MainStage 3.3 or later

If you still use Final Cut Pro 7 – or any other applications in the Final Cut Studio suite (including DVD Studio Pro and Soundtrack Pro), or need to use them once in a while to open older projects, don’t update all your Macs to macOS High Sierra:

Previous versions of these applications, including all apps in Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio, are not supported in macOS High Sierra.

Interesting that the ProApps team are pushing users forward this way. It will be interesting to see if new application features and bug fixes require newer versions of macOS than previous transitions.

Final Cut Pro 7 was last updated in September 2010. It is impressive that it still runs on Macs being released in 2017.

If you have more than one Mac, perhaps it is worth keeping one on macOS Sierra for the foreseeable future. When the next major version of Final Cut appears, it is likely it will work on Sierra. If you don’t have more than one Mac, prepare a clone of your most reliable macOS Sierra startup drive for future use when you need to revisit old projects.