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Well sounds like the Retina model is the right choice for you then – the Retina is about a pound lighter and about 6mm thinner and if you don’t need the optical drive or need to use that space for an additional drive/SSD then it makes even more sense.
Whichever you go for they are really great little machines, I am sure you will love it.

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Hi Jona

your machine should be fine, running the media from a SATA external drive should also be fine. What “flavour” ProRes are you trying to use ?
Certainly LT, 442 and even HQ should be OK as long as you are not trying to playback a 9 camera multicam sequence. ProRes 4444 might cause you some issues but unless your source is RED, Alexa etc etc or you need the embedded alpha channel you dont need 4444 anyway. Unlimited RT might help.
Have you tried disconnecting the 2nd monitor ? I have heard of instances where that slows things down on the older GPUs which might affect playback.
But otherwise your machine should handle things without too much complaint.

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Neil
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It will run FCP7 and is a great machine. FCP7 and X can live on the same machine. When you download FCPX it moves FCP7 into a new folder called Final Cut Studio. So you will have to replace any dock icons with the new path but other than that works fine.
One thing you might want to consider, which is what I ended up doing after chatting to a couple of guys here, is getting the Hi Res anti-glare model.
(1680×1050 rather than 1440×900)
You can have the same i7 2.6 or 2.7 gig processor, same GPU, same 16 gig Ram capacity as the Retina machine (buy from Crucial) so the performance is pretty much identical,
However it retains the optical drive, a FW800 port and a Gig Ethernet port. It has 2 x USB3 ports and of course Thunderbolt. So it offers quite a bit more connectivity without the need for Thunderbolt adapters, which may be a consideration depending on what peripherals you have.
You can use the optical bay to install a 2nd hard drive or an SSD if you don’t really need the Superdrive.
The downside is it is slightly thicker to allow it to accommodate the extra space and therefore a touch heavier and obviously the display is not as hi-res as the Retiina. I am in the UK and the base price here of the i7 2.6 is £500 less than the equivalent Retina so quite a saving.
Oh and it does not come with an SSD but you can spec it from Apple but much cheaper from OWC or OCZ or whoever you choose.

Anyway just a thought I am really pleased with mine and it beats my old 8 core Mac Pro in just about most benchmarks.

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Neil
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I am pretty sure you can do that by assigning and exporting roles from FCPX to Logic. I dont think any automation is transferred though.
There will be someone here who understands FCPX much better than me who can elaborate on that I hope,
Logic X is rumoured to be appearing soon. That may well see easier round tripping but who knows quite what or when.
Maybe post the XtoLogic question in the FCP Techniques forum probably get more answers.

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Neil
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I primarily edit on Avid Symphony which actually runs very well on the MBP. I still use FCP legacy which equally runs well. I used Premiere CS5.5 recently although only on some simple assembly of clips however that ran absolutely fine. It was a very simple edit of 4×15 min 720P h264 .mp4 clips onto a ProRes LT timeline (without rendering.) Then exported as a 1 hour ProRes LT clip which took just over 9 minutes which seems pretty quick to me. So certainly the basics seem to run very well.

Resolve-wise I have to say I have not used it in anger on the MBP however I have installed the 9.04 Lite version just to play around. It certainly does not report any issues or errors. Just to test have applied some fairly heavy grades to 1920×1080 material, added vignettes and blurs all together and it still plays realtime, which is actually better performance than my macpro with the standard 5770 card. Not really taxed it any more than that but it certainly seems to be using the GPU quite well but accept thats hardly a scientific test.

Certainly investment-wise yes the 2012 model is going to be better plus as I mentioned before the non retina model could work out not much more expensive than the 2011 model.

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Neil
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Hi Marty

Is it the “Out of Memory” error message ? Do you have stills in your sequence bigger than 4000 pixels in any dimension ? Or high DPI images.
If so reduce them in size and to 72 DPI
Thats a very common cause for that error. Not sure about the Twixtor renders, Might be worth the old prefs trash.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

I have also heard of people reducing the stills cache setting to 1 to get around this.
You will find lots of threads here on this error in general

Hope something there helps

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Neil
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Sadly I think that FCP 6 relies on a Rosetta component that is not supported on ML. Although FCP6 was intel compatible the installer was somehow Power PC based hence needing Rosetta for it to work. I am pretty sure as yet there is no way around this, but I am sure someone will chime in if there are any hacks or methods to do this. FCP7 is fine although I realise that not much help to you right now, maybe if you can find an upgrade somewhere (Ebay?)
Otherwise there is a thread here where someone had FCP 6.06 already installed on Snow Leopard and then did a ML upgrade (not clean install) that worked.
Maybe thats a very long winded option ?

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1162499

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Neil
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I decided to get a 15″ 2012 2.7Gig i7 MBP but went for the hi res anti glare display over the Retina which is around £450 less so may compare well with the 2011 model price.
Other than the screen it is pretty much identical in spec to the Retina model however it retains the optical drive, has FW800 and Gig ethernet connections as well as Thunderbolt and 2 x USB 3 ports. Since I have a few FW peripherals I still use, made it a lot easier than buying Thunderbolt adapters on top.
The Nvidia site says the GT650M has 384 Cuda cores so as you say it will help with Resolve etc.
I am very happy with the machine, its very quick, it beats my old 8 core MacPro in just about most areas. Might be worth a look for you.

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Neil
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Well said Bill, Premiere and Avid are going to work much better on that machine so Michael has choices, but if happy with CS.X why change/struggle ?
I have an old 8 core MacPro with a 5770 and X runs OK but is sluggish and I am sure would get bogged down on anything substantial. I also have a MBP i7 2.7 gig and X runs super quickly on that – It certainly seems you really do need pretty much up to date hardware to get the best out of X.
I was surprised how well the MBP did in Craigs shoot out post.

As Bill says Michael “move along” – happy editing.

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Neil
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I could be wrong but I believe VHS is actually upper field first, at least it is in PAL however Jerry’s suggestion still holds true, try changing the field order.
I had a quick look at VideoGlide as I was not familiar with it and it seems to output a 640×480 frame size – so that is going to be expanded a bit in a normal SD timeline which may also be adding to issues.

From Spec

– 640 x 480, 29.97 frames per second NTSC video capture.
– 640 x 480, 25 frames per second PAL/SECAM video capture.

You might get better results from something like this

https://www.grassvalley.com/products/advc110

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Neil
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