MacBook spec for video editing ?

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I’ve not done much video editing, but played a little and want to do more, limited budget but I found the below local to me and wanted advise if it will handle GoPro and D500 2.7k or 4K editing, rendering out to 1080, using premier pro.

Will mainly be using for LR + a little PS as it’s main use, but playing and learning video.

Macbook pro 13 inch mid 2012
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Model no A1278
16GB ram
2.5ghz Intel core i5
128GB SSD upgrade
 
I'd personally would opt for a 15" screen I think the 13 is too small. I've edited video on a 15" Macbook pro and it's OK. You might find the smaller 13" screen s bit more difficultly due to the smallness of the image. The SSD is a it small and video files once transcoded tend to eat up storage space. One way round this is to off load the files once the project is finished. Or simply use a second drive to hold those files and edit from that. Leaving the onboard drive for for apps.

Mac's come complete with iMovie, which is a very good starter app for video making. It should already be on the Mac. If not it can be downloaded from the app store. It should be a free download.
 
Chappers said:
I'd personally would opt for a 15" screen I think the 13 is too small. I've edited video on a 15" Macbook pro and it's OK. You might find the smaller 13" screen s bit more difficultly due to the smallness of the image. The SSD is a it small and video files once transcoded tend to eat up storage space. One way round this is to off load the files once the project is finished. Or simply use a second drive to hold those files and edit from that. Leaving the onboard drive for for apps.

Mac's come complete with iMovie, which is a very good starter app for video making. It should already be on the Mac. If not it can be downloaded from the app store. It should be a free download.
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Cheers, I do have an imac (old now and really hates video editing, also tucked away in bedroom) iPad etc, and yes would defo offload once complete to keep space to a max.

I’m happy (ish) with 13” but not sure the specs would cope with video editing ?
 
I've got a 2012 macbook pro 15" (which only gets used occasionally as I've got newer macs) while it's fine for editing 1080 using Final Cut I'm not sure it would handle 4k all that well.
 
davidy233 said:
I've got a 2012 macbook pro 15" (which only gets used occasionally as I've got newer macs) while it's fine for editing 1080 using Final Cut I'm not sure it would handle 4k all that well.
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Hi mate, same specs as above ? Have you tried editing 4K ?
 
scott199 said:
Hi mate, same specs as above ? Have you tried editing 4K ?
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The 15" MBPs are much more powerful than the 13" versions, 2012 is before 4k was a thing so there is pretty much zero chance of a 13" working very well (although FCP is highly optimised for MacOS and works waaaay better than Premier Pro).

I have a high spec 2017 13" MBP and I wouldn't want to do lots of 4K editing on it. 2012 is prehistoric (literally, for 4K).
 
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Cheers all, had my doubts, hence the post, but with really limited funds I was hoping it might do the trick, think it was £325 which I thought with 16g ram and SSD was cheap (ish) and may work
 
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