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  Editing Premiere on a MacBook Pro

  Posted by Brooke Webb on February 23, 2013 at 2:29 am

  Looking for some advice on using Premiere CS6 with a macbook Pro. I used my old Macbook Pro with Final Cut Pro 6 with little difficulty. After a year or so off from editing, I back working and my collegue is using Premiere Pro. I’ve had a lot of difficulty with Premiere, esp with the constant rendering for HD material. Is anyone editing using a laptop. Or is it just impossible to enough power from it?

  Brooke Webb replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  February 23, 2013 at 12:39 pm

  I’ve edited smaller things on my 2006 MBP intel core duo in native h.264 originating from Canon cameras. I probably wouldn’t consider editing larger projects, mostly due to screen real estate on a laptop, or begin to touch a project in heavier formats like RED raw or ARRIRAW.

  Consider keeping all your footage in ProRes like FCP6. Just because Premiere can edit native formats, it doesn’t mean you should. Underpowered machines (anything less than a quadcore machine with 8 gigs of ram) really benefit from the use of intermediate codecs like ProRes or Avid DNxHD.

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  Brooke Webb

  February 24, 2013 at 5:59 pm

  Thanks for the tip. I’d wondered about the codec. Like you said just can you can import everything native…sounds too good to be true. At least in my situation.

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