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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Do NOT buy a mac pro yet. They haven't been upgraded properly for years and they've promised a new one this year.
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Ok cool thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. There is a new one available now, but it looks like its just the same hardware but with more cores. Everything else is, I think, just the same.
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Originally Posted by DamianJ
I'm assuming all the video files are on your internal drive and the bottleneck isn't a slow USB external drive?
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Correct. All files are local to the machine.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Dual Core 27" ?
You'd do much better with the quad core.
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Thats right - Dual Core i7.
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Originally Posted by Oliver K.
I'd second Damian on holding off with buying a Mac Pro. They will be updated pretty soon.
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Ok thanks !!
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Originally Posted by Oliver K.
The current iMac models are pretty fast. I am cutting FullHD on a 2011 i7 iMac with 8GB, and it is blazing fast.
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Wow something is wrong then. My machine is creeping along and nothing that can be called fast. I am suspecting it might be my OS. I recently backed up my older machine to my newer machine and maybe I wrecked something. Dammit.
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Originally Posted by Oliver K.
What software are you using for editing?
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Final Cut Pro, but even iMovie is dragging.
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Originally Posted by Oliver K.
Also SSDs help a lot, but you need at least Firewire800 connection to make any use of those on your iMac.
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I have been considering SSD for a while but I would like it setup as my boot drive if possible. Are you setup this way? Or do you use SSD in another way?
My external drive is Firewire800 already. (I was using the Apple Time Capsule drives over Ethernet originally. Firewire800 is a big improvement).
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Originally Posted by Oliver K.
I think "12 Core Mac Pro with 24GB of Ram" is a nice machine, but overkill for editing. It is a different story when it comes to rendering, but if you don't need to do this a lot, you can let the Mac do that work overnight or (if you use FinalCut Pro X) distribute that rendering load to the Macs in your network.
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That would be the ultimate setup but way way overkill for this. Thanks though!
