FCPX running at 2880×1800 on a Retina MBP

[Ben Holmes]

By the way – all of the above have been adjusted to give the much vaunted 100% HD video window. Here’s the ‘true retina’ setting GUI with a 100% window:

Unless I’m missing something, not sure I’d ever use FCPX like that – no room for the inspector for a start. If you note the windows above all claim to be 100% for HD, it’s obvious the scaled outputs give scaled HD…

Ben

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[Jon Barr]

Hey Ben,

Thanks for these screenshots – very helpful!

Out of curiosity, what CPU and RAM are you running with this? How’s the performance of FCP X?

Jon.

[Ben Holmes]

Hi John

I’m running the 2.6Ghz with 512Gb flash memory (read and write speeds of 400Mb/s+!) and 16Gb RAM. Performance is very ‘snappy’ – feels a little quicker than my 2011 quad-core iMac, and way faster than my 2008/9 Mac Pros.

As I said in the FCP forum thread, the weirdest thing is adapting to a display that looks sharp at so many different sizes. Although you only get the ‘print sharp’ text at ‘optimised for retina’ 1400×900, all of the ‘more space’ resolutions (which officially max at a 1920×1200 ‘equivalent’) look super sharp as well – no scaling evident.

For info, I achieved the 2880×1800 resolution using the Wineskin hack (see other thread). It’s surprisingly readable…

Ben

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[Jon Barr]

“way faster than my 2008/9 Mac Pros” is what I’ve been waiting to hear! great to have it confirmed.

i imagine it’s going to be even tougher adapting to that display when it’s sitting next to an external Apple Cinema Display.

[Eric Santiago]

Im curious as to how this rMBP works with an Apple Cinema 30 (if its even possible) or (uggh the glare) Apple 27 TB.

[Ben Holmes]

[Eric Santiago] “Im curious as to how this rMBP works with an Apple Cinema 30 (if its even possible) or (uggh the glare) Apple 27 TB.”

Hi Eric. I don’t own either, but I’ll try tomorrow with a 27″ iMac – I plan on using this setup from time to time in the field, as it’s a nice way to get a bigger desktop and a mobile system when I’m working out of a hotel on tournaments.

FWIW, the rMBP is still glare-y if the sun’s behind you – but who edits outdoors?

Ben

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