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Just updated to Big Sur 11.2.1. Now, Final Cut Pro won't work without an update. But when I visit the app store, there's no update for it. It says I have to purchase it again. I can access the app through its terminal, but I'd like to know if there's currently a way to update Final Cut Pro that I'm missing instead of having to use the terminal to use it.
Thanks everyone!
Are you logged in to the App Store with the same Apple id used to purchase?
Click on Updates - do you see FCP there? Does it say Update?
Click on your account - Bottom left of the App Store window. Do you see FCP on the right, amongst your purchases? Does it say Open?
If you see it in your purchases, but not on Updates: make a zip of the application in the Finder (control-click, choose Compress Final Cut Pro) for safekeeping, and drag the application to the trash (don't need to empty the trash just yet).
Go to the App Store again, click your account, and FCP will say "Download". Click it. It will be the current version.
I think the issue might be that my MacBook was purchased for me with Final Cut Pro already installed a few years ago. The purchase was not associated with my Apple ID. I'm assuming I'll have to purchase it again under my ID this time? That would make sense. Because it's not on the Updates tab or under my purchased apps.
I read elsewhere online that I could still access FCP even though it wasn't updated for Big Sur. Click on Finder, go to Applications, right-click on Final Cut Pro, click Show Package Contents, open the folder MacOS, then double click on the item in the folder titled Final Cut Pro. It actually worked, it opened a fully-functional version of Final Cut Pro. This way of accessing it was the terminal. I found it was too inconvenient and I wanted to update my FCP to improve exporting my projects, so I just purchased the new version and it works beautifully.
Hope that explained it okay!
If you bought the computer from someone else with the software installed you'll have to purchase it with your Apple ID.
Gotcha. Thank you!
BTW there is a 90 day free trial of the current version available from the Apple web site.
Yes, you got the answer. But if you don't mind, please explain "terminal" in "I can access the app through its terminal . . ." I'm just curious. TIA!
All the updates since 10.0 have been free, so unless you didn’t actually have a license you’d never have to “purchase the new version”!
Final Cut Pro won't work on Big Sur
