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Install Final Cut Studio on Macs with less than 128MB VRAM
Authored by: butaka on May 11, '11 11:51:50PM

It's might be because I am more of a GUI guy or more likely because I'm lazy... But, I found another (simpler - for me) way of editing the files mentioned. ** No Xcode required **

- Insert your Final Cut Studio disk
- Navigate to the disk (if the finder window doesn't automatically appear)
- Right-click or Control-click on the "Install Final Cut Studio" (installer alias) and choose Show Original from the pop-up menu
- Copy the "FinalCutStudio.mpkg" file and the "Packages" folder to your Desktop
- Right-click or Control-click the installer and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu
- Navigate into the Contents >> Resources folder
- Right-click or Control-click on the Requirements Checker and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu
- Navigate into the Contents >> Resources folder
- Right-click or Control-click on the minsys.plist file and choose Open With >> TextEdit
- Hit Command-F (to find) and search for the following(without the quotes): "AELMinimumVRAM"
- Just below "AELMinimumVRAM" change "<string>128</string>" to say "<string>64</string>"
- Hit Command-S (this will save to the original location without prompting)
- Navigate to the Desktop and double-click on the "FinalCutStudio.mpkg" file (install FCS as you would any other application)

DON'T FORGET THIS PART (Or the applications you spent so much time installing won't open)
After installing:
- Right-click or Control-click on the Final Cut Pro.app in /Applications and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu
- Navigate into Contents >> Resources folder
- Open the mimsys.plist file found there, and make the same change as above
- Repeat for all the Final Cut Studio apps you have installed



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