Running on 2013 Mac

[Dennis Dean]

Hi Abraham,

I can’t speak to your 2013 but I ran Premiere on a Mid 2014 with 2.5 Ghz i7 and 16 GB of memory – for several years quite successfully. I attached two monitors and an external Western Digital Passport drive, and went to town. Most of the time I was editing relatively simple 2-3 minute videos. Nothing extraordinarily complex. I can tell you the biggest thing that helped was converting ALL of my video to Pro Res. Any flavor. The stuff is made for editing. I tried editing MP4 a couple of times – the machine tended to go slow or falter. Otherwise I was pretty happy with performance. No problem running several tracks of video and audio… The Graphics card in this machine is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750 M 2048 MB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB. (reading from “About this Mac” I was running macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 I’d say if Premiere Pro has compatible version for it still, load it up and see what happens. I was also able to run PhotoShop simultaneously, for prepping graphics when needed. Good luck!

[Rowdy Wiegmans]

Coincidentally yes. I’ve recently worked wirh 2013 imac’s with similar specs on a sportsevent editing 1080p content.

Worked fine. Responsiveness will depend on the codec, but you can always create proxies ofcourse.

Happy editing 🙂

[Marcel Lalonde]

And this with which ver. of Premiere Pro ?

Thks

[Eric Santiago]

I’m running CC 2021 on a few older Mac Pro 2013s and MBP 2015.

[Marcel Lalonde]

Thanks Eric, any modifications you needed to make for everything to run smooth ?

What OS was being used on each ?

Have a MCBP 2015 running Mojave 10.14.6 and Premiere CC 2017 but wish to move up the OS chain, for other apps. Realize I will be limited to a certain level but just want to be assured PP will run ok.

[Eric Santiago]

No mods other than buy the most ram possible at the initial purchase.

We did upgrade the tubes ram to 64GB for both D500/D700s.

MacBooks I tend to reformat once a year and try a new flavour.

Since they are for backup/onset use we can afford to be offline for a few days with them.

I find cleansing the best remedy for a slow Mac.