MacBook Pro with a Retina display … is that a young persons thing?

[Michael Gissing]

Small screens might appeal to inexperienced editors. Regardless of resolution small screens and scratch pad controls would make fine adjustments of things like color correctors difficult. There would also be lots more zooming in and out.

I hate one screen so just one and only 15 inch sounds like torture. After a six week edit on a small screen, I bet that there will be young editors with glasses long before you needed them Andy.

[Timothy Auld]

I often need to work with transcripts open as well as the NLE. That’s tough to do on one screen, let alone a small screen – no matter what the resolution. I am not against better resolution on a mac book per se but to work on a 15″ screen all the time? Ouch.

Tim

[Daniel Frome]

I most certainly agree it won’t be all that useful. I am buying one, but not for the display. However, I am also getting laser eye surgery in coming weeks, so perhaps it’s a necessary combination! 😉

[Craig Shields]

I have forty some year old eyes and I work on a 15″ everyday. When I’m not in the field I hook it up to the 27″ on my desk. Having said all that, I just got tri-focal contacts sooo…

[Rafael Amador]

I had no need of glasses when I started editing on my first MBP 17 four years ago, now I can’t even read this forum without zooming in on a DELL 24″, so when the people dreams about editing on an iPad y just can think “poor boys’.
The Retina display will force people to buy a second monitor, or perhaps Apple is developing the iGlasses to be able to work just with the laptop. Who knows. Apple know what you need better than your self.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Mark Beazley]

Pretty much think it is a joke that Apple is bragging about streaming uncompressed video footage for editing off the internal storage. 768GB isn’t even close to having enough storage for any sort of editing using uncompressed footage.

-mark

[Gary Huff]

[Michael Gissing] “After a six week edit on a small screen, I bet that there will be young editors with glasses long before you needed them Andy.”

That’s an old wives’ tale.

[Rick Lang]

Andy Mees:
“I’m struggling to imagine how displaying pixel perfect 1080p video inside of a small window within my NLE is going to make my 15″ world a better place?”

Soon someone will be using the MacBook Pro Retina with FCPX 10.0.5 and they’ll be able to give you informed feedback. Until then, it seems to make sense as you are editing that it must be a good thing to see the entire HD video in the preview window, particularly when looking at effects and keying. It may not make the world a better place, but it may be easier on our tired eyes seeing ‘retina’ images rather than what we are used to. So I think for image display it will be good even more professional to have a pixel perfect rendition. It remains to be seen how easy it will be to edit on a 15″ screen though where the physical real estate is smaller than than 17″ most would use previously. At home or in the office, you may want to edit on your larger desktop screen (you know the much larger screen with less pixels), but when traveling, may be more challenging.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Gary Adcock]

Andy,

I have seen a number of pixel based issues with many of the newer cameras that are not visable if the content is not viewed at 100%. This was an issue with the original RED One cameras, offering so much rez when only allowing a low quality 720p output many issues were not seen

gary adcock
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[Tim Wilson]

[gary adcock] “his was an issue with the original RED One cameras, offering so much rez when only allowing a low quality 720p output many issues were not seen”

Agree that pixel-for-pixel footage is critical for monitoring, but I also agree with concerns about UI remapping at that scale. Yeah, it’ll be crisp, but it’ll be TINY, right? Gonna be interesting to see this thing in the wild…