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alongdingdong

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Jul 16, 2014
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Hi all,

I want to buy a secondhand Macbook Pro 2018 13 inch. I5 with 8GB, to bridge the 6 month gap till i buy the new 2019 13 inch version with specs bumped up.

So my question is can i do the below without massive forms of lag on the timeline/preview viewer based on the currently lowest entry level macbook pro 2018 13 inch (no touchbar version)

I want to get cracking on FCPX as i am only versed with Adobe premiere so far.
I make daily youtube videos.

These are the specs:
  • 10~ minutes long
  • source: Iphone 4K/30/60fps (H.265), GoPro Black hero 7 1080 at 30 FPS(H.265 i believe)
  • Some videos have 2/3 video channels as input, but i cut the clips so they dont overlap on the timeline.
Videos are down sampled to 1080 and uploaded to youtube, to shorten down rendering time significantly and since most of my viewers use smartphones to watch it its not going to make dramatic differences, as most content is time period bound, fast publishing is good.

I understand its not a beast of a laptop so there are compromises, i try to avoid having to use proxy files as that would slow down my workflows too much.


Also do you recommend i render the iphone 4K material down to 1080 or just use 1080p native and then render it out in FCPX? i do know about the youtube compression which sucks up the bitrate and overall quality of videos, but i try avoiding spending too much time with 4K files honestly.
 
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