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2018 13in MBP & FCPX
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DougFNJ
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I’m surprised nobody has responded to this.
If you have tried FCPx on a pre 2018 15” MacBook Pro, that is the performance I would compare it to. Mind you, I don’t edit 2 hour 4K movies that are going to the silver screen, but I am finding it renders at twice the speed of my 2017 MacBook Pro. The 4 cores make a very noticeable difference.
If you have tried FCPx on a pre 2018 15” MacBook Pro, that is the performance I would compare it to. Mind you, I don’t edit 2 hour 4K movies that are going to the silver screen, but I am finding it renders at twice the speed of my 2017 MacBook Pro. The 4 cores make a very noticeable difference.
I’m not surprised at all. I don’t think I ask very interesting questions cause most of the time no one responds. Thanks for your reply.
I’m coming off a 2012 iMac. So I’m hoping the new processors are more stellar cause the iMac was a little less than stellar. Not slow per-say, but not as fast as I wanted.
It was my understanding that FCP relies heavily on the GPU so wouldn't a 2017 15" with dGPU run FCP much better than the 2018 13" with just an iGPU?
DougFNJ
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As was mentioned, have you tried what your needs are on a 13" MBP before? Yes there is a bump in performance, but if you are doing video work a lot then I would look to the 15" IMO.
Get a 13" and give it a try for the 14 days you have, if in the US, and see how it works for you.
You stated that the performance of the 2018 13" is comparable to a pre-2018 15". Maybe I'm missing something??
I needed this question answered as well which is why I bought a base model 2018 15". I also have a 2018 13" 16/512 model on the way that I will test side by side running FCPX exporting the same projects. If they are comparable I plan on keeping the 13" and take the savings and put towards an external 4k display.
DougFNJ
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I may be missing something, and I'm not being sarcastic, I really don't want to give anybody misleading information. I have been editing on FCP X for years. The pre 2018 13" did a decent job, but after playing with FCP X on 15 inch MacBooks on a couple of friends, I had always wished I had the quad core. I have found the renders have been as fast as the quad cores on the 15 pre 2018. I am not going by benchmarks, but real world.
If I am off on something here, please let me know as I am always wanting to learn something.