Vue Video Editor For Mac Book Pro

VideoPad Video Editor Full featured video editor for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Learn more >> Switch Audio Converter Convert and encode audio files between many audio file formats on Windows or Mac. Learn more >> Debut Video Capture Record and capture videos from almost any source using Debut on Windows or Mac. Learn more >. The $1799 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is not for video editors or movie makers — although the laptop can certainly do this. If you need to edit 4K videos, which most people will eventually need to do, get the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

If you're editing video as a hobby and iMovie HD & iDVD fills your needs, then the video card does not play a great part in the editing process. Lots of RAM and a fast processor take care of the number crunching when it comes to turning your epic in to a DVD. At the high end, Final Cut Pro and the rest of the Pro series Editing Suite, would benefit from a better graphics card. (Rendering in Real Time for instance) for another thread on the same subject. (One day I'll figure out how to include the link nicely!) P. I've seen the video card/video editing question more than once. I know what I THINK the video card does but my knowledge stems from a few years ago when I built a winbox.

Does a video card work differently on a mac or serve different functions? Quite honestly, my knowledge of hardware has always been based on learning what I needed to learn in order to get the job done and then leaving it alone after that. A video card basically affects the monitor/display and video play back but not necessarily the actual editing/rendering.

A good video card with a lot of RAM and it's own processor can take the load of the computers processor and thus allow for a more efficient display of graphics. I always understood that the card, within certain limits, did not make a deal of difference to your video editing efforts but in the thread that I have linked to, grtgrfx indicated that at the high end, a good video card is essential. My experience, albeit limited to iMovie and a litte Final Cut Express, indicates that all of the current shipping Mac's are quite capable of performing well when editing, with their stock cards. Hopefully someone who has a whole bunch more experience than I will come along and explain the whole thing. I think i am right in saying that only the MBP 17 inch has the option of using an eSATA card to connect to eSATA EXTERNAL hard drives - which is THE sensible solution for holding mass video data - not on your MBP - and editing remotely. ESATA is as fast as if the external drive were an internal one. I THINK that the 15 inch and new 13 inch dont have that option - so are not really serious contenders for a true desk top replacement.

I am sure they easily could. Without the ExpressCard/34 eSATA, higher speed external hard drive options are not available to 13' and 15' new MacBookPro owners. WHY did Apple omit ExpressCard/34 from these? The capabilities of the graphics card will fall to three areas: Hardware support, driver support, and application support.

If a GPU supports a feature, such as hardware encoding of the H.264 video codec, in order for any system to use it the system will need drivers that support this feature, and then also require an application that interfaces with the driver properly as well. If any one of these links is broken or bypassed, then the encoding will be passed to the CPU or not work at all, resulting in a far slower encoding of the video file. In Final Cut Pro, the program will use the video card to help with the rendering of the video, mainly because of support for video codecs (H.264) but also because of support for effects processing in real-time, which can be done and passed to the video encoder. All this will result in a faster Final Cut Pro experience when using a more advanced video card; however, there are times when video capabilities are not supported by the video card, and are processed by the CPU. Apple hopes to tackle the gaps in processing power when the GPU is not fully utilized, by implementing the OpenCL libraries which application developers can use to speed up their applications. As such, the specific role of video cards in the computing environment is getting fuzzy.

If you’re just sharing small files between computers, however, it’s a fine system to use. ExFAT: This is an updated file system created by Microsoft to replace FAT32. It debuted in Windows Vista SP1, it has a maximum file size of 16 exabytes (EB) (it's going to take us a while to hit that), and it's compatible with both Mac and PC. The biggest limitation is that it has a file size limit of 4GB, which can be a problem with today’s Blu Ray rips and 4K video files.