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The new Mac Book pro
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[Tom Sefton] “Work with red footage”
RED footage! What??!! I’m shocked! You don’t strictly work with iPhone footage … like Apple intended!
☺– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Shane Ross] “Yeah, I hate it when people do that. Protecting their reputations behind a mask. I’m all about putting it out there and backing up what I say.
“AMEN my friend.
That said, I’m sure if I went to the WAYBACK machine and pulled down all my old posts, at least a solid 30% of them would have me hiding under my desk in a ego crushing cringe-fest.
The inter webs have no mercy. And apparently an infinite memory!
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[Michael Gissing] “With all hardware and software we spin the chamber and click the trigger every day. Caveat emptor.”
Amen to this entire post.
Some kid somewhere right now is eyeing his dorm room six pack cooler and thinking.
“Hey, I bet I can design a bolt on vodka based evaporative chiller that i9 users could strap under their laptops that would let them solve the heat problem and PARTY after work simultaneously… I should fire up the CAD system and take a run at this…”
Ingenuity runs strong in the professional video tribe.
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So, you just cut on your laptop? You don’t transcode any of the footage first? Don’t let FCP-X “optimize” it for you first? It’s that optimization that utilizes the processor. Final exports? They will be faster with an unthrottled i9…having a faster processor means it gets done sooner, and you then edit faster, and get the edit done sooner and….that’s your whole point of liking FCP-X…that it makes you faster.
It’s not only for CAD or 3D or graphics…or DITs. It’s for you, the editor. Importing, exporting…transcoding, rendering complex layers, doing graphics with Motion, rendering out something from After Effects…doing a final render in Resolve. ALL tasks editors do.
Shane
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[Miha Pece] “I think Apple is still king for mobile editing. I would love some real competition here, but I’m not holding my breath.”
Look, I don’t want to derail a very interesting thread, but Apple’s intentional lack of ambition for mobile computing is one of the big things that lost me. Not any gnashing of teeth or outrage on my part, as much as a shrug. “Really? That’s all ya got?” I think there’s a LOT of great non-Apple options.
What I love about my Dell XPS 15 isn’t just the years of enjoying a 4K touchscreen, DDR 4 RAM, a proper keyboard, and lots of other stuff, but Dell’s incredibly low-priced, but highly effective ON SITE repair. This is a big deal for me. I live in a remote, humid location — on an island where in the past 6 months alone, we’ve had to replace 5 ceiling fans, a TV, a washing machine, and a microwave solely because wobbly power and salt air fried the circuit boards, often in a lovely hail of sparks.
And the one time I had a problem with a logic board, I went straight to a dedicated support number for Dell mobile workstations, and they dispatched someone to my house with the part the next day. It happens that there are a number of military installations on the island, and repair people here are well-stocked….but one time, our cat knocked my wife’s laptop off the table, and it landed face down on the floor. She needed a new screen, hinge, and wireless antenna (the wifi card is where you’d expect under the keyboard, but the antenna runs behind the screen) so it took all of 3 days for the parts to be FedEx’d and the repair guy to be sitting at our dining room table making the fix.
For this, we pay the princely sum of $145 for 3 years iirc. Something very close to nothing, on top of a machine that I got with better specs and a lower price than an MBP….that they’ll service in my house within days of my call to their mobile workstation hotline.
And yes, the repair agreement covers stuff like the cat messing up the machine, pouring daquiris on the keyboard, whatever. No restrictions. (The agreement doesn’t mention cats or alcohol, but it does mention drops and liquids.) If I need help, there’s no discussion about why, or who’s fault it is, or whether it’s “acceptable” trouble.
I get that if you’re using FCPX or will only use Macs for whatever reason that this isn’t an option, but man, the LAST thing I’d say about Apple is that they’re king for mobile editing. Y’all know that I remain mightily enthusiastic for X, and strongly believe that a strong Apple hardware platform is good for the whole industry, even folks using Windows.
But even more than desktops, where the iMac Pro is dynamite imo, I feel like this is an area that they’ve really stopped trying the way they used to. I don’t use Apple stuff, but I take no pleasure from them not swinging for the fences anymore. I WANT them to do better.
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I don’t buy the ‘bug’ line. Apple never admit to bugs like the behaviour of FCPX grade tool that just got quietly fixed. Calling it a bug makes me suspect it wasn’t. Actual bugs never get publicly outed by Apple.
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Here’s a link to his original review, which was linked in that article. It was updated after the firmware update.
This is an interesting observation that he makes:
“Apple is trying to push its own envelope with the CPU options it has included in the 2018 MacBook Pro, but it’s business as usual in terms of GPU performance. I believe that’s because Apple wants to wean pro users with serious graphics needs onto external GPUs. Those users need more power than a laptop can ever reasonably provide—especially one with a commitment to portability.”
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “Those users need more power than a laptop can ever reasonably provide—especially one with a commitment to portability.”
“This makes sense.
Also, not just portability, but sensible thermal management.
“Need SERIOUS power? Consider the Grointanner 6000 – the 6 internal GPU laptop for editors who have absolutely no desire for future children…”
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Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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That’s really, really impressive service for an amount far less than Apple care.
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http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk
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