Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:12 am
I spend the better part of 2 years working on a 2013MBP Retina 15' with DR12
And, although absolutely not the best solution, if its all you have there are some options to make your grading/editing experiences more enjoyable.
The best bang for bucks and performance i found was to put a TB(2) connected small 4 SSD drive RAID ZERO array on my macbook. ( It also had a large mac TB cinema display on it and even mini montor to SDI grading display as TB2 is fast/wide enough)
That would act as a super fast cache / working media storage for all the media you edit with. I was even grading heavy multi layer EXR files out of Nuke, which is crazy I/O intensive and pushing it a bit (not fun but this way doable). For editing you create proxies in Prores422HQ or even 444 works fine (for grading) as Macs like Prores.
My workflow was always to transcode EVERY piece of media into Prores before i start with editing/grading.
If you then stick to normal grading nodes a refrain from too many ofx / noise reduction etc. You can have a pretty good experience.
If you do start playing with ofx/noise, do it at the end of your work and cache these nodes so during your main activities it is smooth sailing.
Its all doable by just beeing a bit smart in planning.
External GPU's could add to this equation but you need at least TB3 for these types of things. By that time better build a hackintosh with a proper GPU in there and you will be much happier for likely about the same amount of money.
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