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Super ultra wide or 4K displays
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For 4K (without an egpu) make sure you have at least 16GB of memory or it’ll be glitchy.
If you run one display it can usually handle non-even scaled resolutions (ie something other than “looks like 1920x1080”) without issue. Not 100% sure how this will play out with video heavy apps though.
If you run two 4K displays it won’t be smooth if they’re using a non-even scaled resolution - you’ll get glitches and some lag doing basic things.
An ultra wide is probably less strain on the system as they’re essentially all low enough PPI that you don’t need to use macOS’ UI scaling.
If you run one display it can usually handle non-even scaled resolutions (ie something other than “looks like 1920x1080”) without issue. Not 100% sure how this will play out with video heavy apps though.
If you run two 4K displays it won’t be smooth if they’re using a non-even scaled resolution - you’ll get glitches and some lag doing basic things.
An ultra wide is probably less strain on the system as they’re essentially all low enough PPI that you don’t need to use macOS’ UI scaling.
Thanks- looking to just power one display and will see how it goes when I pick one up this week.
Running an LG 38UC99-W. Runs great for day to day work certainly. Haven't gamed on it yet, still waiting for the Razer Core X to come back into stock.
EDIT: Well it did run great. Now I get a black screen on boot up, (but I understand this is related to Filevault).
EDIT: Well it did run great. Now I get a black screen on boot up, (but I understand this is related to Filevault).
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My Mac mini is running 3 Dell P2415q 4k monitors. The monitor using HDMI has to be set to HDMI 2.0.
I run LG Ultrafine 4K + Packed Pixels 9.7" 2K (2048x1536) on Mini i7/32GB RAM.
FCPX runs pretty poorly. But not because of the screen, because the GPU in the Mini is rubbish. If you want to do decent stuff in FCPX, think about running an eGPU.
It ran just as poorly on a single 1080p screen.
for everything else its smooth and well.
FCPX runs pretty poorly. But not because of the screen, because the GPU in the Mini is rubbish. If you want to do decent stuff in FCPX, think about running an eGPU.
It ran just as poorly on a single 1080p screen.
for everything else its smooth and well.
I would think that an ultrawide display would "work against" Final Cut Pro, because of the way the app is "set up" onscreen.
It would actually look better on a "standard aspect ratio" display, with enough "height" so that all the controls could be seen easily.
Re Ploki's comment about speed of 4k editing:
Do you create proxy media when importing your 4k clips?
It would actually look better on a "standard aspect ratio" display, with enough "height" so that all the controls could be seen easily.
Re Ploki's comment about speed of 4k editing:
Do you create proxy media when importing your 4k clips?
Yeah, unworkable with native.
The Iris Pro 655 on my MacBook 13" does FCPX better unfortunately
630 HD is not made for this, really.
What resolution are you running? I have the 49" 5k2k monitor and I'm struggling to get decent clarity and scaling.
at native 5k2k 120Hz running on an eGPU. Straight out of the mac mini HDMI port was pretty bad for this monitor.