10/30/2023 0 Comments Macbook air final cut proWhen I am in the office I plug into a hub, a speaker system and a monitor. My work desk is a constantly shifting spiderweb of USB3 cables and portable drives. I don’t get much more than an hour or two of battery when pushing the system hard, but I'm usually plugged in so I am fully charged when need be. If the project is small enough, working straight from the flash drive is a dream. Editing 720p, and even 1080p, from those tiny little drives is a breeze. My backpack-friendly editing system is now an 11” MacBook Air (Mid 2012, 2GHz i7, 8 GB RAM) and a few USB3 bus-powered drives. So I switched my system, software, and hardware all at once over to the Air, leaving my old Mac Pro/Final Cut 7 system intact. I would wait (and wait, and wait) for the next Pro. But even the crazy priced top-of-the-line ones did not benchmark fast enough to justify the cost. Like many, I have struggled over the last year (or more) with the decision to buy or not to buy a beefier Pro. Checking some benchmark results online, I was surprised to see that my "little 11” exceeded the performance of my Pro in several categories. Last summer I started a Motion project on my MacBook Air and found it quite capable. I had been editing for several years on a Mac Pro. So we decided to contact everybody who had posted a comment or had emailed in saying they were editing on a MBA and asked them to share their thoughts and experiences.įirst up is Tracy Evans from Tracy Evans Productions based in Houston, Texas. Half criticised us for bashing the MBA and the other half praised us for not being 'complete Apple fanbois.' (Not our words or spelling we hasten to add!) It was interesting as the mail we received was split down the middle. The article that we published on the rendering problem with FCPX running on a MacBook Air certainly stirred up quite a bit of feeling in the community. As a follow up to our rather controversial article on FCPX on a MacBook Air, we thought we would do a roundup of FCP.co readers' real life editing experiences on the combination.
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