So the editor of Causality Scheme, Sarah Gersh, edited the film using Final Cut Studio 2 and I own Final Cut Studio (the 1st version).  Well, she sent me back the hard drive that I sent her and on which she edited the film on.  I was very excited to see my hard drive come in the mail and at the time my Mac was out of order - the hard drive had crashed on it.  I was using my work laptop for my day to day activities so I didn’t REALLY need to fix the Mac - that was until I got the hard drive back!  So, I scrimped and saved and sold off some old film equipment and found the money to buy a new hard drive and also to buy the new Mac OS X version.  I was stoked when I got that stuff in the mail!  So I installed the hard drive in my Macbook Pro and then I popped in my Mac OS X Tiger install discs.  1st disc went just fine… the 2nd it turned out was used to go sledding on over a sharp rocky cavern - it was unreadable and I could not finish my install!

The next day I took my Mac in to the Apple store and they were super cool and installed a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.5 on my Macbook Pro!  Okay, so then it was finally time for me to go home and install Final Cut Studio.  I didn’t remember this but it took me 3 friggin hours to install it!!  Now, finally, it was time to look at Sarah’s cut of Causality Scheme directing in Final Cut Pro… I clicked File, Open, and navigated to Sarah’s Final Cup Pro Project file and…..   ‘general error 41′

DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!  I did some searching and found out that I can’t open a FCP file that was created in a later version than mine!  Big Shitski is what that is!

So there I was digging in my garage for more things to sell.  I found a few things worth a few hundred and started hocking them.  It took me a few weeks, but I was able to wrangle up the fundage to purchase the Final Cut Studio 2 upgrade.  That was today.  I’m actually pretty excited about it though.   Final Cut Studio 2 has some really awesome stuff in it.  I can’t wait for it to show up.  It’s like it’s Christmas!