11.6 MBA runs Final Cut & ProRes

yoak · Jan 12, 2011, 08:36 AM

I just came across this post while researching the MBA for my workflow on location.
Pretty impressive. Enjoy:

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-xdc...1-success.html

Scott6666 · Jan 12, 2011, 09:36 AM

Thanks for the post. Interesting to know.

fs454 · Jan 12, 2011, 07:40 PM

I just did a local 48 hour film fest with my 5D mark II and my new MBA 11". I usually do all of my work on my 8-Core Mac Pro, but I wanted to see what the MBA could do. After every shoot we had a runner back to the house to dump and convert the 1080p files from the camera to 720p ProRes(1080 was pointless for this particular project) on the Mac Pro, and then we did our first cut in FCP(13 minutes long) on the MBA as we had to be mobile. it was flawless.

It's perfectly capable of being a quick mobile video editor. You just need to be weary that rendering complex effects/mattes will take a bit longer, but if you're just cutting something together it's not like you'll need to render those types of things out all the time.

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yoak macrumors 65816 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Oslo, Norway	11.6 MBA runs Final Cut & ProRes I just came across this post while researching the MBA for my workflow on location. Pretty impressive. Enjoy: http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-xdc...1-success.html __________________ 2.8ghz MP Octo 2,66ghz MBP, SSD Corsair Force 240GB, 8GB RAM 12" iBook 1.2ghz 60GB HD & 768RAM www.sombrafilm.com
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Scott6666 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2008	Thanks for the post. Interesting to know. __________________ 13" MB Air i5 2011, iPhone 4S 64G, iPad3 4G 64, 27" i5 iMac (getting slow) \|\| basement museum: iPhone 1, Apple IIe, Mac SE, iPad1 3G 64 \|\| Apple Stock.
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Jan 12, 2011, 07:40 PM	#3
fs454 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Boston, MA	I just did a local 48 hour film fest with my 5D mark II and my new MBA 11". I usually do all of my work on my 8-Core Mac Pro, but I wanted to see what the MBA could do. After every shoot we had a runner back to the house to dump and convert the 1080p files from the camera to 720p ProRes(1080 was pointless for this particular project) on the Mac Pro, and then we did our first cut in FCP(13 minutes long) on the MBA as we had to be mobile. it was flawless. It's perfectly capable of being a quick mobile video editor. You just need to be weary that rendering complex effects/mattes will take a bit longer, but if you're just cutting something together it's not like you'll need to render those types of things out all the time. __________________ Mac Pro - 2.8 Octo - 28GB - 300GB Raptor/3.8TB 11" MacBook Air 1.6/4gb/128gb - iPhone 4[S] 64GB White iPad 3 16GB+Verizon LTE
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