I started using iMovie back when I owned a 1st gen MBP core 2 duo. Then I switched to a 2011 iMac i5. And recently after a break with Linux Ubuntu I switched back to a late 2013 2.6 ghz IG MBP.
I've always been on the side business of making movies with iMovie. Usually it involves a lot of editing of about 98 clips running 45-60 minutes long.
With the first MBP, after doing all the editing(which often took awhile) I would need to take a break for about 3 hours while it compiled the movie.
When I got the iMac, editing was a lot easier, but it still took about an hour to compile the movie.
I was unable to do the movie work on my laptop when I was using the core2duo running Linux because there are just not any really usable programs in the Linux work that don't have very steep learning curves because they are just hard to use.
So... I found an incredible change to the new iMovie and my (new to me) MBP making the movies. Editing was very fast. In the iMac, 1.2 gig clips had to be compiled to .mov before they would load in iMovie, or they would take 40 minutes to load, and even so they took 10-15 minutes to load, and added about 5 gigs in the system.
Now they load directly from .mp4, and a 1.2 gb clip takes about 8 seconds to load, and is still only 1.2 gigs when its in iMovie.
And to top it off, I don't even have the discrete graphics card. Compiling the movie to a functional file takes about 5 minutes, as opposed to 60 minutes that it did on the big desktop iMac from only 2 years before my MBP.
Unbelievable the change over time.
I've always been on the side business of making movies with iMovie. Usually it involves a lot of editing of about 98 clips running 45-60 minutes long.
With the first MBP, after doing all the editing(which often took awhile) I would need to take a break for about 3 hours while it compiled the movie.
When I got the iMac, editing was a lot easier, but it still took about an hour to compile the movie.
I was unable to do the movie work on my laptop when I was using the core2duo running Linux because there are just not any really usable programs in the Linux work that don't have very steep learning curves because they are just hard to use.
So... I found an incredible change to the new iMovie and my (new to me) MBP making the movies. Editing was very fast. In the iMac, 1.2 gig clips had to be compiled to .mov before they would load in iMovie, or they would take 40 minutes to load, and even so they took 10-15 minutes to load, and added about 5 gigs in the system.
Now they load directly from .mp4, and a 1.2 gb clip takes about 8 seconds to load, and is still only 1.2 gigs when its in iMovie.
And to top it off, I don't even have the discrete graphics card. Compiling the movie to a functional file takes about 5 minutes, as opposed to 60 minutes that it did on the big desktop iMac from only 2 years before my MBP.
Unbelievable the change over time.
