Final Cut Pro X on the MacBook Pro, how is it?

[Blackberryroid]

13 Inch users, how's Final Cut Pro X? Is it doing well? Is it in a not-irritating speed of render? It should be. It's branded as a Pro computer, it must be performing well at these kinds of professional tasks.

What about you, 15 Inch users? Is it heavenly? I'm sure it is.

I'm on a 2009 MacBook Pro, even my Air does FCP X faster than it. Yes, a consumer notebook that is many times thinner and lighter just became 3.5x more powerful than a Pro computer that is more than twice thicker.

So, 13-Inchers and 15-Inchers, how is your FCP X performance?

 

[Ifti]

Although I tend to use iMovie most of the time for my needs, Ive used FCPX a couple of times for small projects and it runs perfectly fine on my system. Completely happy with its performance.

Had a 2010 2.66GHz C2D before my current system, which it also ran fine on, although obviously longer render times etc, but more then useable.

 

[pbmagnet4]

13 Inch users, how's Final Cut Pro X? Is it doing well? Is it in a not-irritating speed of render? It should be. It's branded as a Pro computer, it must be performing well at these kinds of professional tasks.

What about you, 15 Inch users? Is it heavenly? I'm sure it is.

I'm on a 2009 MacBook Pro, even my Air does FCP X faster than it. Yes, a consumer notebook that is many times thinner and lighter just became 3.5x more powerful than a Pro computer that is more than twice thicker.

So, 13-Inchers and 15-Inchers, how is your FCP X performance?

My 13" i5 with SanDisk 240gb SSD and 8gb Kingston HyperX RAM, runs FCPX and Aperture at the same time with no problems, rendering off an external 500gb USB3 GoFlex. Smooooth Sailing

 

[MacBookProzak]

The MBP that you see in my signature along with a Seagate 750GB Momentus XT hybrid drive totally powers everything I do video editing wise with FCPX. I cut shows to shorts and this machine is bullet proof. All the video is ran off a Lacie Thunderbolt drive and I view my editing on an external monitor.

You can read through this thread I started when I got the new 2012 MBP-non retina -2 days after it came out and you will learn how hard I push this machine.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1386040/

I had a 2011 with the same specs in my signature line and it performed great, yet with the 2012 I am getting a bit more out of this machine, as well as I gained a USB 3.0 port.

I edit 10+ hours everyday on this machine and can handle anything I throw at it.

Hope my experience with this machine can help you with your decision.