MacOS Big Sur Support
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:42 pmPrior to its release this week, Big Sur was in developer beta for seven months and public beta for over three months.
I installed it yesterday, having run the public beta on another Mac since early August. I'm having no issues so far with the following applications that I use for video and photography:
Final Cut Pro X
DaVinci Resolve 17 beta (I only use parts of this application)
Capture One Pro 20 (I don't use Capture One for tethering)
Photo Mechanic 6
Logic Pro X
Native Instruments Kontakt, full version
Spitfire Audio Player
iZotope RX 8
iZotope Insight 2
The foregoing is not a recommendation. It's just my personal experience, although it accords with what others are saying on internet fora. The developers of some of the above applications, in particular Capture One, iZotope, Photo Mechanic and Spitfire Audio, have yet to give Big Sur a green light. In the case of Native Instruments, clearance depends on which NI product one is talking about. I also have iZotope Ozone 9, but haven't as yet tried it with the final version of Big Sur. In any event, there's nothing it does that I can't do in Logic.
Personally, I'm not impressed that companies that have had Big Sur for seven months are still messing around "testing" it. If we're just talking a few days for a final check, fine. But that isn't likely. For example, iZotope didn't give the green light to Catalina for many weeks. Capture One is being singularly vague on both Big Sur and the M1 Macs. Meanwhile, it may have a financial incentive to string this out until after it releases Capture One Pro 21 next month. Camera Bits, which makes Photo Mechanic, is not only refusing to say when it will support Big Sur, it's telling customers who are purchasing M1s that they shouldn't install Photo Mechanic. It won't even give these people a timeframe. At least Native Instruments, to its credit, is making demonstrable progress.
I installed it yesterday, having run the public beta on another Mac since early August. I'm having no issues so far with the following applications that I use for video and photography:
Final Cut Pro X
DaVinci Resolve 17 beta (I only use parts of this application)
Capture One Pro 20 (I don't use Capture One for tethering)
Photo Mechanic 6
Logic Pro X
Native Instruments Kontakt, full version
Spitfire Audio Player
iZotope RX 8
iZotope Insight 2
The foregoing is not a recommendation. It's just my personal experience, although it accords with what others are saying on internet fora. The developers of some of the above applications, in particular Capture One, iZotope, Photo Mechanic and Spitfire Audio, have yet to give Big Sur a green light. In the case of Native Instruments, clearance depends on which NI product one is talking about. I also have iZotope Ozone 9, but haven't as yet tried it with the final version of Big Sur. In any event, there's nothing it does that I can't do in Logic.
Personally, I'm not impressed that companies that have had Big Sur for seven months are still messing around "testing" it. If we're just talking a few days for a final check, fine. But that isn't likely. For example, iZotope didn't give the green light to Catalina for many weeks. Capture One is being singularly vague on both Big Sur and the M1 Macs. Meanwhile, it may have a financial incentive to string this out until after it releases Capture One Pro 21 next month. Camera Bits, which makes Photo Mechanic, is not only refusing to say when it will support Big Sur, it's telling customers who are purchasing M1s that they shouldn't install Photo Mechanic. It won't even give these people a timeframe. At least Native Instruments, to its credit, is making demonstrable progress.