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: There is no official digital version for purchase or download from Apple. Users who previously owned it may sometimes find updates (like 7.0.3) through Apple Support or legacy update tools, but these require the base application to already be installed from the original discs.
As a 32-bit application, FCP 7 does not run natively on macOS versions newer than .
Alternatively, you can run a virtual machine (like UTM or VMware Fusion) with macOS High Sierra installed. Inside that virtual sandbox, your will work perfectly. But editing 4K ProRes footage inside a VM on an M1 Mac? The performance is abysmal.

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