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Resolve is great on one machine for transcoding. One app across multiple machines using the same project. Does Avid support clustered transcodes?Ĭorrect. – Patrick SouthernĬompressor doesn’t generate DNxHD or DNxHR files at current.

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Which is gonna be significantly faster than if you were working off of a single iMac Pro or an old Mac Pro. Imagine having five or six Mac Mini’s over 10 gig connecting to a Jellyfish and doing render farms, where you’re taking raw footage and making pro-res proxy footage, or H264 footage for use in Premier or Final Cut or Resolve and doing this all with multiple machines at once. Patrick Southern from Lumaforge delivers his take on the new Mac Mini and it’s benefit’s to indie filmmakers, DITs and networked edit bays, now that we have a Mac Mini that is ‘ powerful enough to chew through 4K RAW‘. You can connect devices over 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USC-C) ports and two USB 3.1 ports, which should give you just about enough ports to maintain all your essential peripherals.

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Up to two displays: One display with 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt 3 plus one display with 4096-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz connected via HDMI 2.0.

Up to three displays: Two displays with 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt 3 plus one display with 4096-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz connected via HDMI 2.0.

The Mac Mini supports following combinations of displays: Thunderbolt 3 is a great for external fast SSD #fcpx #appleevent Internal storage connected by the T2 chip is industry-leading. Video editing only needs a few GB of RAM because it is about combining 4-8GB of different video frames 60 times a second. The 1TB to 2TB difference isn’t worth the price differential.

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While we don’t consider the memory directly end-user accessible, service providers can access the internals of the Mac mini to upgrade the memory.”įinal Cut Pro X doesn’t need more than 16GB of RAM. “Yes, Mac mini is configurable up to 64GB and uses industry-standard DDR4 SO-DIMMs. That’s why I’ve chosen just 512GB of internal storage (for the OS and applications) and ‘only’ 16GB of RAM in this configuration.Īt an increase of $1400 to go from the base configuration of 8GB of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM to the maximum 64GB, that’s a big price to pay.īut according to this article from David Gerwitz of ZDnet, the RAM is upgradable after purchase: If the RAM really is upgradable post-purchase (see below) then you can save a ton of money – enough for an eGPU Pro (see below) – by buying it and more storage from anyone but Apple. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Nbase-T Ethernet with support for 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb Ethernet using RJ-45 connector).3.2GHz 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz).Here’s how I’d set up a 2018 Mac Mini for use with video editing.

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Updates – Be sure to scroll down the bottom for some updates on performance benchmarks, hands-on reviews and now how to upgrade the RAM yourself! My Mac Mini 2018 Spec for Film Editing Now it all remains to be seen of what becomes of the Mac Pro (2019?!) and I’m in no hurry to upgrade my desktop, having recently upgraded my laptop.īut if you’re considering a new desktop Mac now, then it’s either this or an iMac Pro, starting at $4,999, but a more powerful machine.

This is because I already have a nice 31″ LG 4K monitor and some lovely Yamaha HS7 studio monitors. It’s still going strong mind you, but I’m always on the look out for affordable ways of increasing it’s performance, or replacing it with another desktop system as I don’t want to buy an iMac. Is the new 2018 Mac Mini suitable for video editing?Īs someone who owns a 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan) I know that it won’t last forever. Using the 2018 Mac Mini for Video Editing