macbook pro

[Walter Biscardi]

DVCPro HD and HDV yes.

ProRes 422 HD editing yes ONLY with the AJA IoHD due out shortly.

Uncompressed HD, no.

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[901_david]

also the newest macbook pro will be able to have up to 4 Gigs of RAM in it which will be a huge plus for on th emove editing, but personally although I have yet to use this new macbook pro, I have always been bummed on editiing even on the best laptops. They are slower and bog down, and mostly the thing that bugs me after working on two huge dual screens I cannot get over the crammed look of FCP. Really that is what bothers me, although I am very interested in this thread because I am thinking about purchasing a new laptop for on the road editing, although I only use DV, I am using an extreme amount of high-level efffects that take time to be rendered. On my macpro with 9 Gigs ram I am flying still but on a laptop I am afraid it will not be worth the time cause it will take so much longer, and end up being a waste of money

[Monty S. esq.]

Hey Anton,

I’m using the new 17 inch MBP to cut HD. It’s a breeze. What makes all the difference is where you store your media files. I suggest an esata solution. I’m getting read/write speeds around 120 MB/s. Thats plenty for anything but uncompressed HD.

[Jeremy Newmark]

We’ve been cutting ProRes 422 HQ at 1080 23.976 on a new macbook pro for two weeks now without any problems. And this is only with 2gig of ram and off of an old firewire 400 drive. We just received another 2gigs of ram and an esata drive today, so I’m sure that will only make things better. But yes you can edit ProRes on a new MacBook Pro, you don’t need the AJA IoHD to do it, however the IoHD may give you more real-time capability, we’ll see once they get them out the door.

best regards,

jeremy

[Monty S. esq.]

BTW, I don’t know what you had in mind for an external monitor, but I was just informed by matrox that the mxo does not work in mastering mode with the new MBP’s. It will only work in presentation mode. I cant tell the difference between presentation mode and just hooking my lcd directly to my MBP. I hope they are fixing this, as it was/is the only viable option for color accurate hd laptop monitoring that I am aware of.

[Rj Miles]

You echo my sentiments.

I think I might be able to live a MacBook Pro for running basic FCP edits, but more complex compositing in AE might be a little too close my experience with a G5 2.0/DP. After working on an 8-core and 3.0ghz 4-core, I’m talking myself out of a MacBook Pro for now, and have narrowed it down to a 4-core -vs- 8-core.

Happy shopping and thanks for the thread.