What to look for in a Mac for video editing?

**sunkast** · 07-29-2012, 10:09 PM

I am possibly looking to get a Mac for video editing, but I'm pretty unfamiliar when it comes to what is good for Mac. How fast should the CPU be and how much RAM should I ideally look for in a Mac that would work well for video editing? Also would anyone have advice on whether I should go with a MBP, Mac Pro, or iMac?

**andrewzarian** · 07-30-2012, 06:12 PM

Thats a great question im sure someone here will know

**Donovan** · 07-30-2012, 06:38 PM

I did video editing on an Air purchased in the first quarter of this year, so I would think that the latest iMac would definitely work fine. If you want portability, then go with a MacBook Pro.

**andrewzarian** · 07-31-2012, 05:15 AM

get the 15 inch Retina !!

**Linuxcooldude** · 08-04-2012, 10:22 AM

It depends on many factors. Short videos could be done quite well on nearly any Mac machine. Large to huge videos work better on a Mac Pro. The actual editing part, once you import the files is easily done on a lower end machine, its the rendering part once the video is finished does better on a multicore machine with more memory. Also video card may play into it depending on the video editor takes advantage of opencl or cuda for acceleration of realtime effects / import-export ect.

Really need exactly what you want to do with the videos, the length, budget ect. would be helpful.