2019 Mac Pro Thinking
- Stabilisation (faster + more effective)
- Noise Reduction (faster + improved)
- H265 (faster + higher quality)
- Proxy-free 4K workflows
Anyone needing more reasons to switch to the new Mac Pro, coming out some time in the next 3 months, is never going to be happy.
2013 saw the most recent iteration of Apple’s Work-horse desktop machine, manifested as a sleek ‘black bin’ that rocketed Video Editors into seamless, smooth, multicam 4K workflows with effortless, efficient ProRes proxies.
For those using 2010-2012 Mac Pro towers, the benefits of the ‘black bin’ migrated in large parts to their setups too in the form of a schmick new Final Cut Pro simply renamed FCPX.
‘Flustrations’ aside from established Editors who choked at having to work with a new magnetic timeline (ignoring the Position tool’s track based clip positioning) it was a big jump fwd. We won’t discuss the ‘black bin’s’ peripherals and internal modularity issues.
6 years on, the latest Mac Pro beast, in typical Apple fashion, is a brute of an item that is total overkill for the average Mac user. Without a doubt it will remain useful for at least the next decade and be a talking point for any studio visitors.
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