FOR VIDEO EDITING PORTABLE VIDEO EDITING

For Video Editing Portable Video Editing

Scrubbing 1080P videos through the timeline updates the viewer instantly.I've also tried editing with the original video files on USB 3 and Firewire 800 external drives ( Western Digital My Passport 5400RPM) and there's no lag or stutter while skimming. Both are snappy on the Mac Mini. Choose the best app and download it today for free.Fusion Drive is helps save time during file importing but after that it doesn't really impact the performance during video editing.My videos are usually 1080P at 25FPS so the comments below are regarding those settings.I use both iMovie 11 and Final Cut Pro X. Importing huge video files is breezy with USB 3, SD card slot, SSD and Fusion Drive.MacUpdates software library contains more than 125 Video Editing Software apps designed for Mac owners. Part of the Evolution Series, G-DOCK ev ships with two hot-swappable USB 3.0 G-Drive ev hard drives for convenience and. This review is part of the overall Mac Mini (2012) review.For a portable video editing drive array, The G-DOCK ev with Thunderbolt storage solution is a two bay, swappable drive system with user configurable RAID 0,1 and JBOD and is designed to optimize the digital content workflow.

Even Final Cut Pro X does not use all 4 cores. From the Activity Monitor, I see that it actually uses around two cores for rendering as compared to one for iMovie, which is about 40% vs 25% CPU usage. Impressive! And at less than half the price.And Final Cut Pro X is about two times faster than iMovie. The only time I feel the fans speeding up is while Final Cut is encoding.Just for comparison against my old Mac Pro quad 3Ghz, I downloaded these two videos below, imported and then exported them using Final Cut Pro X.Chinatown Mid Autumn Festival Sketchwalk (2m15s video at 1920 by 1080, 25fps):Kampong Glam Sketchwalk (2m16s video at 1280 by 720, 25fps):The 2012 Mac Mini is almost twice as fast as the 2006 Mac Pro when it comes to rendering videos. For example, iMovie doesn't maximize the use of all cores while rendering video.Final Cut Pro X makes use of multi-core when exporting so it's faster than iMovie. The difference is only speed when you're transferring files.Depending on what applications you use, you might not get the multi-core advantage to rendering.

It still can be done though, slowly. Scrubbing the video isn't that responsive but it's not surprising given that 4K video is really data-heavy. OSX will take its time to readjust the Fusion partition for best use of the SSD and slow hard drive, and during this period of time, even copying files to USB3 drives are limited by the hard drive speed.Editing 4K video is quite a challenge. It seems after the first 4GB is imported (using the SSD), the speed of import slows down drastically afterwards. IssuesBut importing huge files, I mean importing more than 4GB of files. You'll want to check out barefeats.com tests that compare this Mac Mini to the iMac with a dedicated GPU.

I use a 2012 MP Air with only 4GB of RAM as my away machine and it also runs FCPX amazingly well. FCPX does run very fast on the OWC SSD. I need Snow as my main OS since I use some 3D apps that don't work in Lion or Mtn Lion and run FCP mainly from that drive. The drive can always save and write files faster than what your processor can render out.Here are my rough disk speed tests you can use for reference:I am using a MB Pro 2.2GHZ i7 quadcore 16GB RAM Snow Leopard, and a 750GB Momentus Hybrid as my main drive but installed an OWC 120GB SSD with Diskdoubler (removed DVD bay) and Mtn Lion to run some newer apps.

But FW800 and USB 3.0 (for the MB Air) is good enough for now so I will wait for more price drops.BTW your S'pore videos look great, very clear and nice vivid color. There are also LaCie Little Big Disk refurbs available for around $225. If I have some time later I may post some benchmarks to share with you.FYI, Thunderbolt seems to be finally dropping in price, Amazon has the Seagate 1TB for $179USD and here the Buffalo drives go for about $180-$200.

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