Video Editing For Mac Like Premier

Is video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro on a 2012 Macbook Pro a good idea? Premiere Pro will run fine off of your Mac. Happy editing. 14.2k Views View 3 Upvoters. Because Macbook air is created for businesses and light works like presentations And Adobe Premiere pro takes high Ghz.

Hey, how are you guys doing? I'm a video editor (starting out) and beginner music producer. I work with Adobe CC programs. Gcc for mac os 10.6.8 eclipse.

Im looking to buy a 2017 27 inch iMac. I have a budget of about 2700€ / 3000$. I'll be crying when I spend it because it took so long to earn that money but hopefully the new iMac will will bring me more joy in return. Probably wont do much or no 4k editing for now. Did a lot of reading and I think the general consensus is: 4,2 i7 7700K = by far best performance but loud and hot 3,8 i5 7600K = Hotter than 7600 but cooler than i7 3,5 i5 7600 = sweet spot 3,4 i5 7500 = for the regular consumer I thought about getting the follwing configurations: 3,5 i5 7600 8GB RAM (will upgrade in future) 256GB SSD (only OS, applications and cache on SSD.

Footage, sound libraries, VSTs on external HDD) Any video editors or music producers here? What are your thoughts? How can I get the most out of my budget? Thanks in advance. I just ordered the i7 with 2TB SSD. Will have 40 GB RAMby the time I've installed the extra memory from OWC.

I do video editing, not yet 4K but multiple full HD streams/multi-cam. Maybe my configuration is overkill at this time, but I want it to be sufficient for a few years.

With video work, depending on what you do you're either I/O limited or processor-limited. With the i7 and the fast and large SSD, I hope to do alright on both fronts. (The computer isn't here yet, so no performance report at this time.).

Hey, how are you guys doing? I'm a video editor (starting out) and beginner music producer. I work with Adobe CC programs. Im looking to buy a 2017 27 inch iMac. I have a budget of about 2700€ / 3000$.

I'll be crying when I spend it because it took so long to earn that money but hopefully the new iMac will will bring me more joy in return. Probably wont do much or no 4k editing for now. Did a lot of reading and I think the general consensus is: 4,2 i7 7700K = by far best performance but loud and hot 3,8 i5 7600K = Hotter than 7600 but cooler than i7 3,5 i5 7600 = sweet spot 3,4 i5 7500 = for the regular consumer I thought about getting the follwing configurations: 3,5 i5 7600 8GB RAM (will upgrade in future) 256GB SSD (only OS, applications and cache on SSD.

Footage, sound libraries, VSTs on external HDD) Any video editors or music producers here? What are your thoughts? How can I get the most out of my budget? Thanks in advance.

Click to expand.I don't think there is much basis for that. I have a top-spec 2015 iMac 27 with 4Ghz i7-6700K and have ordered a similar 2017 iMac with 4.2Ghz i7-7700K.

I'm a professional video editor and often use the machine 8-10 hr a day. In FCPX it is not loud and I rarely hear the fans for normal editing.

I also have Premiere CC on Mac and it does spin up the fans more, but it probably would do this on an i5 as well. Video editing is highly CPU-intensive, especially on Premiere on the Mac. Anyone can see this by just fast forwarding on a 4k H264 timeline and watching the CPU levels.

This is because Premiere does not use Quick Sync on Mac so it results in very high CPU levels for basic operations. This is a Mac forum but as said, if you'll be using Premiere I really don't see the advantage of using a Mac. It's the same same editing software, has the same interface with the same features on both Windows and Mac.

On Windows you can get a more powerful, less expensive machine to help compensate for the lower efficiency of Premiere vs FCPX. I think Premiere on Windows uses Quick Sync to some degree (Adobe says it does) but I have not tested this. Premiere is a great program, especially if you use the entire suite don't mind paying $50 per month. All editing software has strengths and weaknesses. My documentary team used Premiere on Windows from CS3 to CC, but now use FCPX on Mac. If we still used Premiere we'd be on Windows not Mac. Can you provide more specifics for your video editing workload?

Resolution being captured? Does the camera(s) have simultaneous recording for a proxy? Are you using any effects? Color grading?

Will you be exporting a highly compressed rough copy for review by a client/friend/whatever? Final export file codec? Without a bit more info your hardware requirements for video editing range from the base model being more than enough to needing the top of the line model. Probably the most important question though. How confident are you your needs will not change before you are comfortably ready to upgrade your iMac?

Be a shame for a slight shift in your workload to render your iMac inadequate for the job. Any 2017 iMac is going to edit 1080p video just fine. I've been using FCPX and motion on a stock 2012 21' -- didn't intend to do it on that machine just worked out that way and never bothered to upgrade until now. Even on that machine there have been very few hiccups.