Hey there guys,
I hope that this post finds you all in excellent spirits, and that you are having a great weekend.
We use DVD Studio Pro to create DVDs from material edited in FCP X and exported via Compressor. We run DVD Studio Pro ('DVDSP') on one MacBook Pro (15” Retina, mid-2012) and house FCP X and Compressor on another one (15” Retina, 2016).
The 2012 MacBook Pro with DVDSP on it is running OS X 10.8.5. We have kept it this way for reasons of compatibility. However, a couple of other apps that are very important to us no longer support this operating system, and have stopped working. We are therefore thinking of updating the OS on this machine.
So my two-part question is as follows:
1. What is the latest version of OS X or macOS that DVD Studio Pro successfully runs on?
2. Is it possible to install the latest version of macOS on a separate external hard drive, and boot this OS on the 2012 MacBook Pro, while leaving the original OS on Macintosh HD intact - effectively, switching between the two where necessary?
Any guidance, tips, ideas etc. are sincerely appreciated.
Thank you very much indeed for reading this!