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Movie editing on Macbook Pro 15" 2010...

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d-boy86

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Jan 19, 2011
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Hi Guys --

So I purchased a 2010 Macbook Pro 15" a few days after they released the new ones with the SB processor. I've been using Macs for the last four years for audio editing and now moving over to video. And I am highly disappointed. When I tried editing in Final Cut Pro with one filter, it tends to lag. I'm not sure if its because the video quality is in 1080 and maybe I should bring it down to 720p.

I am not trying to do anything grand. Just a color correction filter and also a envelope effect (black borders on the top and bottom) of the video to give it the Wide Screen look and feel. Any ideas? I would hate to install Windows via Parallels and use Sony Vegas (in which my video editing worked fine on my moms jacked up PC).
 
d-boy86 said:
Hi Guys --

So I purchased a 2010 Macbook Pro 15" a few days after they released the new ones with the SB processor.
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Why did you not exchange? it was free?

the speed boost in the latest mbps is immense.
 
Because the product went on sale. Thats why. But that's not the question I asked. People were raving how the 15" Macbook pros (i5) were all so grand, yet my moms PC beats it out by doing the same thing. I am a huge Apple fan boy, but I am tired of having to find work arounds. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
 
My machine (see sig) handles the entire Final Cut Suite with no issues. Well, not totally, things can lag a bit in motion. But for the most part I cruise right along when editing.

I would suspect your computer should be able to do everything you need with no problems.
 
I guess you use footage which is not conform to your project and sequence settings.
FCP likes to have its footage in .mov container using the ProRes or Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) for video and Uncompressed for audio. You can use MPEG Streamclip to transcode your footage (CMD+E) to that proper format, it even allows batch transcoding (CMD+B).

Also take a look at the manual coming with FCP, you paid for it anyway. It explains a lot about the proper footage and sequence settings. After that, you will see, that you have bigger files and less rendering to do.
 
^^ Thanks! Yes, whenever I import video it does give me a message about some sequence crap. I haven't yet mastered FCP yet. I'll give it a try sometime tomorrow.
 
d-boy86 said:
^^ Thanks! Yes, whenever I import video it does give me a message about some sequence crap. I haven't yet mastered FCP yet. I'll give it a try sometime tomorrow.
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And you probably use some MPEG.4 encoded video, which is not meant for editing, as it does not store every frame and those missing frames have to be calculated again and again and therefore the CPU gets used a lot and RT effects aren't RT anymore, as the footage is not using an editing codec.
 
Thanks. My problem wasn't with it lagging with just the footage by itself. But soon as I applied one filter (usually Mojo Bullet) it will slow down a lot.
 
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