![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It slows down a little with FCPX, but with iMovie, you could render 4K videos all day long and be perfectly happy for a long time. Since then I have moved onto a 2017 Mac Pro 15" with FCPX, but that Mini is still there and I still use it to do some rendering. I used his mini a few more times, and finally bit the bullet and in 2014 I bought a 2014 Mac mini (i5, 8GB of RAM) and used iMovie on it, and to this day, 6 years later, I still use this Mini regularly to render 4K video, and it still renders quickly, looks great, and works perfectly. it was so easy, flawless, perfect, and rendered and looked fantastic. I **** you not, I finished the video, edited it, rendered it, and exported it in about 20 minutes. Then I lost my mind and gave up.Ī buddy of mine after I rejected it several times, forced me to borrow his old 2012 Mac mini with iMovie on it. I finally had got a video I thought looked good after working on it for 3 weeks, it took 8 hours to render, than failed to export. then I tried about 5 or 6 different programs, they bombed out, failed, would lose settings, audio/video wouldn't sync, I was totally going nuts. A nicely equipped iMac 21.5 will run you 1500, bump up to a 27 inch with 5K it will be 2500-3000. FCPX is the next step up, then you have Adobe Premier which is great but has a steeper learning curve. iMovie is very easy to use and give you great results. I first tried Windows Movie Maker, failed miserably. Apple wins hands down when it comes to graphics / video. ![]() I was working on my first "real" video with my phantom 2 and my GoPro. Hated Mac, hated Apple, wanted nothing to do with them. About 6 years ago, I was a deadset PC guy. I was in the EXACT same situation as you. ![]()
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