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BobFiveHead
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I'm going to get a 13" MacBook Air. If I buy directly from Apple I can get it customized. For $100 I can get the RAM increased from 4-8GB, I'd have to buy from Apple and pay sales tax. My plan for the computer is to just everyday use and also I would like to get into editing video and making movies. I imagine the 4GB can handle this, but would there noticeable increase in performance for video editing with the extra 4GB of RAM? Thank you.
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Posted on: 2:59 pm on Sep. 9, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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While Mountain Lion (the operating you will receive with it) will do fine with 4GB of RAM, the extra 8GB will come in very handy for any video editing work you plan on doing.
I hope you are thinking about iMovie, as the MacBook Air will be underpowered for Final Cut Pro X (unless you get the Core i7 model). It is also recommended to get a decent sized external drive, to store your video materials and projects on. The internal Flash drive on the MBA will also be a limiting factor.
If video will be something you will be doing a lot, you might be better served with a MacBook Pro in the 13" variety.
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Posted on: 2:27 am on Sep. 10, 2012
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BobFiveHead
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Would the fact that the memory in the Mac Air Book is flash have any advantage for film editing? Also, the external hard drives that I have for my PC would also be fine for Macs? Finally, as far as the video software goes, the iMovie I am sure is pretty good stuff just for someone that is just doing this as a hobby, rather than as a profession. Would moving up to Final Cut Pro X, but just way too much for a hobbyist?
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Posted on: 8:55 pm on Sep. 10, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Final Cut Pro X is a fine bit of editing software - it may be over-powered for the MacBook Air. It is meant to be used on a larger screen, and with at least a core i7 CPU.
You will be able to use your prior PC hard drives - and while the Mac will read them, you won't get the best performance out of them unless you re-format them in the Mac's HFS file-system. The PC file-system, FAT-32, has a limitation of 2GB for individual files, which video projects and files can surpass.
The internal Flash will give you a nice performance boost, but the drive is most likely too small for video projects.
I have a mobile video editing system, based on a MacBook Pro 15", with external drive, that does a nice job.
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Posted on: 1:33 am on Sep. 11, 2012
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Wanderingsam
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While the flash is a nice touch for weight reduction as DD points out, the size is limited and its very expensive. No company producing flash makes much profit on the chips so I think it will be some time before the cost comes down.
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Posted on: 7:31 pm on Sep. 11, 2012
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koolbreez
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Doubling the RAM will have a huge impact on video editing. It gives more space for immediate update of changes, and reduces delay in editing. Also Adobe Premier is one of the best video editing programs, combined with Adobe After-effects.
Video editing is the heaviest most resource demanding processing you can do on a computer, and requires top specs to be able to do it somewhat fast. In HD mode you're dealing with around 24+megs of data for each second of video.
To load, and be able to edit just one minute of video at once takes lots of CPU power, and RAM, 8gigs is a starting point. Remember about 30% of the RAM is used just to run the operating system, and editing programs.
3 times the size of one minute of video is usually needed in RAM to effectively edit, and update changes, as the editing process does not overwrite changes, it adds to the original for revision, and reversal capabilities.
A one gig section of video becomes 2+ gigs with just a simple contrast change, and grows exponentially from there with more editing. A small computer can be used, but it will take forever to edit, with greater possbilities of program crashes.
The fat32 file system is almost obsolite now with the NTFS file system standard on drives in the last 3 years. Macs can read these with no problem, although writing to them is a different matter.
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Posted on: 5:12 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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BobFiveHead
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Thank you guys for your help. After taking Daffy's advice I upped to the MacBook Pro 13" 2.9ghz. I liked the Air for its lightness, but this seems more useful for what I plan to do. Thank you again.
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Posted on: 8:58 pm on Sep. 12, 2012
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