Mac mini for Video Editing?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 10:33AM My previous blog post Real Life MacBook Air 11" Benchmark - Video Encoding showed some spectacular results whilst video encoding when comparing the 1.8Ghz i7 MacBook Air with a 2008 MacPro with 8 cores and 16GB RAM.
I can only assume that the new 2.7GHz i7 Mac mini would actually be comparable to my ageing Mac Pro especially if upgraded to the full 8GB RAM (or even 16GB using third party kits)
A ScreenCastsOnline viewer (and Video Professional) Allan Tépper, sent me a link to a recent blog post on using a Mac mini as the core of a professional video editing rig.
It makes for interesting reading!
Mac Mini w/Thunderbolt: preferred platform for many new editing systems
There are still some missing pieces (especially the Thunderbolt enabled professional interfaces from AJA, Blackmagic and Matrox) but hopefully they will be with us soon, along with a wider selection of Thunderbolt enabled drives.
It really makes it interesting to see if Apple actually do come out with a replacement for the Mac Pro, or if this is the future of Pro level machines.
My gut feeling is that they will produce a monster Mac Pro, but with a Mac mini configuration like this, how many people will actually need one?
Reader Comments (1)
This is an area that I am watching with great interest. As I get more and more into video production I find that the all of my Mac's are suitable for the edit part of the process. The hard part is of course the encoding, especially when I need to produce multiple versions.