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Mac Book Pro setup
Hi,
Planning a purchase of a Mac Book Pro to use for editing Red Raw Footage in the field.I notice most guys are using a 8 core Mac Book Pro, Where do I get one, Mac store doesn’t offer such a configuration. Our is it something that I can install later. I have built plenty of PCs but have never touched the insides of a Mac.
Any other suggestions on the best set up for Red editing with the Mac Book Pro, please let me know.
Cheers,
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4 Replies
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8-Core are desktop units (Mac Pros). The Mac Book Pros only have due core and they are slower grade chips. So the slowest Mac Pro will smoke the fastest MacBook Pro.
You may want to define Red editing. Ingesting viewing or actually doing full on editing?
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Mainly just want to handle footage for clients, I am a cinematographer, not an editor, but I want a Mac Book Pro so I can show clients footage in the field for them to review. And maybe convert RAW footage to something (quicktime)I can ship off to them for review.
I love the RED cameras, but my clients are demanding more editing and workflow knowledge on my part, so I am trying to get up to speed and offer more options.
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It is all doable on a MBP, downloading and viewing especially. but transferring the files to ProRes it will probably be painfully slow. If you go on the RED forums you find people build some serious render farms to ingest the files. I have seen a lot of towers brought onto the set to do this.
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With my MacBook Pro, importing footage to ProRes HQ using Log and Transfer takes about 5 minutes to every one minute of 4K footage (24p).
Editing with the _P QT files is actually pretty acceptable. So for just reviewing footage, I’d feel okay just dragging those into FCP on a MacBook Pro.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Universal Post
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Salt Lake City, UT
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