Adobe Premiere and Macbook Pro Advice

[Rbfinch570]

I keep getting mixed reviews when I read forums or watch YouTube videos about Adobe Premiere. I've been waiting on the new iMacs to drop thinking this is my only option next to getting a Macbook Pro 16". Anybody out there run Adobe Premiere on the Macbook Pro 13 2020? If I can get away with it I'll spend the money on the 10th gen Macbook Pro 13" to save some money. Should I just wait for the refresh iMacs or get a Macbook with a dedicated graphics card like the 16?

I am teaching a new course next year and plan on teaching this app to students. My workload on the app will not be long 4k videos.

 

[Rbfinch570]

Anybody?

 

[LinkRS]

I keep getting mixed reviews when I read forums or watch YouTube videos about Adobe Premiere. I've been waiting on the new iMacs to drop thinking this is my only option next to getting a Macbook Pro 16". Anybody out there run Adobe Premiere on the Macbook Pro 13 2020? If I can get away with it I'll spend the money on the 10th gen Macbook Pro 13" to save some money. Should I just wait for the refresh iMacs or get a Macbook with a dedicated graphics card like the 16?

I am teaching a new course next year and plan on teaching this app to students. My workload on the app will not be long 4k videos.

I have Adobe Creative Cloud, with Photoshop (I don't use Premiere) on a 16" MacBook Pro. It works fine for me. What exactly are you asking about? If you are planning on doing 4K video editing, and other things at the same time, you probably want to splurge, and get 32 GB RAM. Good luck!

Rich S.

 

[Rbfinch570]

I'm just curious if I can get away with using the Macbook Pro 13" with 10th Gen Intel chips with Premiere? Or will it be a problem and I'm wasting my money instead of getting a 16" or an iMac. I figured I'd ask mac users that might have this configuration.

 

[rdubmu]

If you are looking to have this be a desktop, I would look into an iMac and or Mac mini.

If you are doing some serious video editing I recommend 32 gigs but you could get by with 16gigs.

 

[Rbfinch570]

If you are looking to have this be a desktop, I would look into an iMac and or Mac mini.

If you are doing some serious video editing I recommend 32 gigs but you could get by with 16gigs.

So 13” pro is out of the question?

 

[rdubmu]

It isn’t... if you want something super mobile sure

 

[profcutter]

It's hard to make a determination, the new machines are too new, many of us haven't even seen them because of the closures. We don't know exactly what you're editing, but I've been working with a 2013 15" MacBook Pro with students, it's worked out fine for 5-10 minute videos, I can't imagine the new ones wouldn't be fine, albeit hot or noisy from time to time. If you're going to do more heavy lifting, an iMac is a huge boost in performance.

I will say if you're going to be having students editing zoom or Skype video, I've found that Final Cut is more robust and can handle the wonky frame rates you get from conference video much better than Premiere. With Premiere, you may need to use a utility to conform the video to a standard rate like 24, or 30 fps. Final Cut just does it automatically on the timeline, and does so with fewer hiccups than Premiere.