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MacBook Pro: 2014 vs. 2018 - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X Weekly
MacBook Pro: 2014 vs. 2018
- [Jeff] Welcome to Final Cut Pro 10 Weekly. This is Jeff. Nick's not here this week. And I spent some money on a brand new MacBook Pro and I thought the results were really interesting enough that they were worth sharing as a tip, especially if you have old hardware and yeah, you know the message at the end, I'm gonna suggest that you buy new hardware but let's see what sort of difference it actually makes. So I'm going to be comparing my 2014 MacBook Pro, my current one. I'm gonna look at two common benchmark tools and then I wanna take a look at some real world, two common exports, some ProRes material and some h264. I did some HEVC exports and something interesting happened. Let's find out. About four years ago, I picked up this MacBook Pro. It's a 15-inch i7 with 16 gigs of RAM. Recently, I picked up a brand new system and it too is a 15-inch machine but it's a hexacore. That's six i9 cores rather than an i7 and I've got a lot more RAM on it. The comparison looks like this. It's…
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Why the Range tool should be your favorite and why to use it more5m 26s
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It’s all about the color board9m 53s
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5 things you should know about Motion 510m 34s
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The ultimate short guide to mastering speed effects6m 52s
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3 things you should use Compressor for right now6m 38s
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5 keyboard shortcuts you should know in FCPX7m 9s
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Uploading videos to the web4m 27s
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Setting up workspaces5m 8s
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AE workflows10m
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Cool things about the Info panel5m 36s
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5 tricks for dealing with the inventible stills montage8m 35s
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Animation in a hurry: Have no fear, custom text is here7m 9s
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The least you need to know about After Effects10m 21s
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Video roles in FCP X7m 44s
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Three Timeline tricks7m 31s
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Split edits to elevate your storytelling5m 53s
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Color Finale for traditional color correction10m 37s
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Tricks for managing titles12m 21s
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Perfect slow-mo with HFR11m 35s
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The power of generators10m 49s
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Portable proxies12m 30s
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LUTs and you12m 47s
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Free Apple sound libraries6m 40s
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Getting more from the Ken Burns moves7m 46s
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Storyboards5m 18s
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Three things about 3D text9m 8s
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Playhead and skimmer management6m 22s
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360VR in Final Cut Pro, part 15m 46s
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360VR in Final Cut Pro, part 29m 23s
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Keyframing best secret: Solo animation4m 50s
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3D text in Motion7m 45s
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Smart collections8m 51s
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Transitions6m
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Frame.io9m 55s
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RED workflow10m 2s
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Timelapses, part 17m 32s
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Timelapses, part 27m 23s
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Setting up a stronger Color Workspace7m 34s
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Shortcuts for faster color correction in FCPX 10.47m 12s
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The Power of Overshoot6m 53s
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Better LUT Workflows3m 32s
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Eyedroppers in Curves4m 57s
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Clip Filtering in the Browser3m 2s
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Animation Headache Avoided2m 40s
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SpeedScriber7m 6s
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A Solution for Charts4m 48s
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Speeding Up Basic Transforms4m 33s
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Common Transform Libraries3m 58s
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Viewing Smarter in the Browser3m 46s
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10 keys we wished more FCP X editors used: Part 16m 22s
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10 keys we wished more FCP X editors used: Part 27m
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3 things to know for working with 360 in FCP X6m 46s
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360° Patch6m 20s
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Finishing the job: Archiving best practices4m 11s
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Using auditions with color correction2m 36s
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Using a color chart4m 29s
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Using Motion color looks in FCP X6m 26s
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Using the Finder for easy organization6m 33s
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Using Palette Gear with FCP X7m 51s
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The ultimate reframe: 360 in everyday projects5m 44s
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Snapshots: Better than duplicates4m 43s
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Closed captions7m
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Which ProRes is right for you?10m 24s
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FCP X in the real world: A sit-down with Kelsey Wilson from the Toronto Star14m 50s
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Dual displays: Maximize your layouts6m 19s
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Creating custom clip names in FCP X5m 21s
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Creating a channel blur in Motion for FCP X8m 7s
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Tweaking flesh tones9m 32s
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Saving useful effect presets in FCP X8m 28s
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Audio compression9m 27s
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Creating great lens flares with mFlare 211m 48s
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Voice EQ: Making everyone sound better10m 40s
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Smarter effects workflows7m 57s
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The edits not taken5m 38s
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MacBook Pro: 2014 vs. 20187m 11s
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USB-C, T3, and you3m 51s
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Nodes 2: Incredible motion graphics right inside of FCPX8m 57s
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Three things to know about taking the dive into FCPX8m 6s
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CommandPost6m 37s
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Three great OS X utilities4m 56s
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Three hidden compressor tweaks8m 5s
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Make safe OS X media copies6m 38s
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Don't hit the panic button: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro X problems, part 14m
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Working with 4K in HD production7m 37s
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Workflow extensions with Shutterstock4m 45s
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Don't detach the audio2m 24s
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Four tips for keying the green out of your screen8m 44s
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Upgrading safer4m 43s
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Understanding disk speed10m 33s
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Beyond Ken Burns: Working with photo cutouts in Apple Motion, part 111m 3s
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Automatic color4m 48s
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Color matching8m 9s
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External GPUs14m 58s
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Beyond Ken Burns: Working with photo cutouts in Apple Motion, part 210m 32s
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Pro Res raw8m 40s
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Incompatible media for future OS updates5m 38s
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The future isn't just horizontal8m 29s
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Audio limiter5m 12s
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Easing animations8m 12s
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Three free effects9m 49s
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Making keyword collections work for you6m 57s
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Square video8m 52s
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Video noise reduction11m 39s
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Hard limiter2m 44s
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Exploring 3D type options and reflections9m 16s
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Preparing titles for vertical and square formats8m 11s
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Odd-sized assets and Spatial Conform3m 29s
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Working with 180-degree video in Final Cut Pro X8m 48s
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Two workflow tips for 5.7K footage7m 6s
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Faking room tone6m 2s
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Free still and video content sites8m 28s
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FCPX system performance12m 37s
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Proxy files for collaborative workflows6m 33s
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EditReady4m 35s
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