Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:44 am
Are we talking about editing or grading too? Any advanced VFX, like temporal NR, optical flow etc. ?
So, why I'm asking is this: if you are not sure to earn that money back within one year or maximum one and a half, don't invest in any Intel based Mac at this time! Decoding Arriraw is not very demanding, it just needs fast media. I can play back Arriraw smoothly at 24 fps in an HD timeline with decoding set to half res on a MacBook Air M1 with 8 GB RAM.
These current ones are just entry level machines, but Apple will switch to their own silicon over a period of two years, having started in late 2020. Even the current Mac mini is outperforming the current MacPro in some tasks.
Don't waste your money.
My disaster protection: export a .drp file to a physically separated storage regularly.
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