It’s been a tough morning.
My 2011 MacBook Pro will not power on. It hasn’t all morning. I’ve tried everything I can find to do online, but it looks like their’s a fair chance it’s just totally shot.
Everything relevant to this project is stored on external drives, so I’m not super concerned with losing it.
The potentially showstopping problem, though, is that everything is within FCP7, software that will not run on versions of MacOS more recent than 10.12 Sierra, initially released four years ago.
If my old machine will not power up, and I simply cannot afford to get a new computer at all right now, I will not be able to finish this or even export what I’ve already gotten together without a Macintosh computer that can run 10.12 Sierra. And even then I’m not 100% confident FCP7 will even install at this point.
If the computer does manage to boot back up, the first order of business will be to export the current state of the project as ProRes video and lossless audio stems.
