iMac-Photography and Video Editing

[CaptMike]

This is what I'm thinking will do the trick.

21.5" LED Display 1920 x 1080 resolution
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M (512MB GDDR5 Memory)
3.1GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
16GB (2x8GB Apple) 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
1TB Fusion Drive

Anyone differ on the thoughts and why please?

 

[MacOG728893]

It'll work, but having a higher spec'd GPU will definitely come in handy for certain rendering times in both AE & PP.

 

[Apple Corps]

It'll work, but having a higher spec'd GPU will definitely come in handy for certain rendering times in both AE & PP.

Highly software dependent I believe - some off load to the gpu and others are way more cpu intensive.

Would you expand on your comment please?

 

[CaptMike]

It'll work, but having a higher spec'd GPU will definitely come in handy for certain rendering times in both AE & PP.

Hi

Yeah, I thought of that also but I would have to purchase the top of the line 27" to get the improved GPU AND the i7

Really getting the screw job by apple

 

[MacOG728893]

Pre rendering in PP does rely heavily on CPU, but the GPU does play a key role as well.
AE relies on RAM preview, but again, the GPU also plays a key role. Just know that GPU helps both the CPU & RAM in many rendering intensive tasks for both video and high mega pixel photos.