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PPro on portable Mac 2017 not better than 2013 model?!
An upcoming project requires fast-moving 60sec promos edited on the road (hotel room desks and coffee tables) from scenes shot that very day.
My mid-2013 MacBook Pro actually works fine here in the studio with 4K transcoded h264-to-ProRes422, but definitely not fine with 4K mp4 clips. On the road I’ll have no time for transcoding before editing.
I reviewed specs of current Mac laptops and seems like there’s barely any improvement these last 4 years in meaningful processor power.
My current 2013 MBPRO—
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Total Number of Cores: 4
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MBI have small SSD RAIDs and storage drives, so the internal Mac drive spec is not a big issue.
Would anyone out there be cutting 4K mp4 camera files on a Mac portable with no stagger / stutter / lag / choppy performance impediments?
(I’ve been told a pumped-up new PC laptop will effortlessly cut 4K, but for this particular project I’m not able to switch away from Mac.)
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2 Replies
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I wonder what OS you are running on this machine and how it runs? Are you using Pr CC 2017?
I have a similar machine but with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
16 G RAMI am running Mac OS 10.8.5 and Pr CC “2013” because I haven’t wanted to update in the middle of several long projects.
Not an answer but thanks for your thoughts.
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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I’m running 10.11.6 El Capitan and PPro 2017, just short of the very latest update which I’ll install tonight.
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