Is the 2. 01. 6 Macbook Pro Suitable for Video Editing? That said, the new screen is . The speakers sound much better and the new Touch Bar could even turn out to be useful! In that, the machine can drive two separate displays, two raids and still charge itself. I’ve been waiting for Thunderbolt 3 too, because it opens up a world of external GPU possibilities. Anyway, as of today I’m still on the fence. I can afford to wait a little longer to see if circulating rumours about a 2. RAM bump to 3. 2GB, turn out to be true (or not!). This official Apple launch video will take you through the design, performance and new features of the 2. Macbook Pro in just over 3 minutes. For a blow- by- blow breakdown of the new laptop and the technical fine detail behind each component you really can’t be the Mac. Rumors. com buying guide here. UPDATE – . And he think’s it’s more than adequate. First off, It’s really fast. I’ve been using the Mac. Book Pro with the new version of FCP X and cutting 5k Pro. ![]() Res material all week, it’s buttery smooth. No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated it tears strips off “superior spec’d” Windows counterparts in the real world. This has always been true of Macs. If you’re running software with old code which doesn’t utilise the hardware well, you’re not going to get great performance. He even likes the Touch Bar! The more I’ve used it the more I’ve replaced certain keyboard shortcuts. Why would I use dual- hand/multi- finger shortcuts if the button was there in front of me? It changes depending on what I’m doing. I’m editing picture; it shows me relevant trimming shortcuts. I’m editing titles; it shows me font, formatting and colour options. All without the need to open other menus. It works, it’s faster and it’s more productive. So although Thomas is cutting in FCPX (and I spent the majority of my time in Adobe Premiere Pro), he’s getting real world video editing use out of it and he loves it. A helpful reassurance! If you’re also an Adobe Premiere Pro editor scroll down for another surprising and reassuring speed test in the next section! If I do buy a new laptop, I’d also have to snap up one of these Dongle/Adaptor strips to make everything else work. This one from Satechi looks pretty good. It’s got actual USB ports, Ethernet, pass- through charging, a card reader or two and 4. K HDMI. All from one USB- C Thunderbolt 3 port. Like I said before, I don’t mind being pushed in to the future a little bit, as long as I can slap on an adaptor until everyone else catches up. I still even use the FW8. USB hub. UPDATE – There’s a great, forward thinking post by Adam Geitgey on the multitude of possibilities that the new Macbook Pro’s USB- C connections offer to the . Yes, it’s probably too expensive and more RAM is better than less RAM. But everyone posting complaints without actually using a MBP for a few weeks is missing out on all the clever things you can do because it is built on USB- C. Over the past week or two with a new Mac. What do Bioware, Blizzard, High Voltage, Planet Moon, Shiny, Snowblind, Treyarch and Volition have in common? They were all once published by Interplay!![]() ![]() Book Pro (1. 5in, 2. Touch. Bar), I’ve been constantly surprised with how USB- C makes new things possible. It’s a kind of a hacker’s dream. UPDATE – FCP. co editor on working with the 1. Not one lockup or quit either. I’d be more than happy looking at the 1. I was holed up in a hotel room. UPDATE – Larry Jordan on the New Macbook Pro. ![]() Larry Jordan has posted a couple of different articles looking at the new Macbook Pro including one specifically breaking down the functionality of the Touchbar in FCPX. The post that interested me the most was on his thoughts on how best to configure the new Macbook Pro for video editing. It’s well worth reading through the whole post to see Larry’s rationale for the following conclusion, so be sure to click through. ![]() If you are working in 4. K or higher resolutions, do lots of effects work in After Effects or Motion, and are principally focused on video editing, the higher end laptop with 5. GB of storage and a top of the line GPU will be a better choice. This raises the price to $2,8. If it were my money, I’d go with the $2,8. GHz Intel Core i. GB SSDRadeon Pro 4. ![]() GB of VRAMNew Macbook Pro – In- depth Review. If you are looking for another in- depth review of the new 2. Macbook Pro from an experienced professional editor then Brady Bretzel’s recent article on Post Perspective. ![]() ![]() Brady covers all the bases you would expect and delivers a measured review when considering both the new bells and whistles (such as the Touchbar), performance gains and general usability. Apple has made a great new Mac. Book Pro. Is it worth upgrading if you have a new- ish Mac. Book Pro at home already? Probably not, unless the Touch Bar really gets you going. The speed is not too far off from the previous version. Apple Accidentally Confirmed 1 Major Rumor About the New MacBook Pro. On Becoming Superhuman: Fasting for Fast Weight Loss, Better Health, and Supreme Fitness. 3 months ago, I stumbled across a fascinating article on something crazy. Rebel Wilson has lost an impressive amount of weight recently, however her efforts were soured when she received death threats on social media. Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.3 15" Mid-2012 Specs. Identifiers: Mid-2012 15" - MD103LL/A - MacBookPro9,1 - A1286 - 2556* All MacBook Pro Models However, if you have a lot of Thunderbolt 3/USB- C- connected peripherals, or plan on moving to them, then it is a good upgrade. If you’re still on the fence about whether or not you should be one, then Brady’s review probably won’t sway you one way or the other, but will fill in some details on the requirements from a laptop that an editor will stay up nights worrying about. Check it out here. Keyboard Covers for the New Touch Bar Macbook Pro 2. Macbook Pro 2. 01. Keyboard Shortcut Covers Giveaway! The good people at Editors. Keys got in touch to offer the readers of my blog a chance to get their hands on their brand new shortcut keyboard covers for the Touch Bar enabled 2. Macbook Pro. These ultra- thin custom moulded silicone keyboard covers feel great under your finger tips (I should know I’ve reviewed them previously here) and fit the keypad precisely. Not only that, but they’ll help you master your NLE of choice, and keep your blood, sweat and tears from clogging up the keyboard too. Editors. Keys currently provide keyboard covers for FCPX, Avid Media Composer and Premiere Pro (as well as numerous other creative apps) and were kind enough to offer six lucky readers the chance to win one of their choice! These normally retail for $2. This optimisation is what editor Thomas Grove Carter was talking about, above. In this tech review Jonathan compares the new 1. He exports a 5 minute video clip from FCPX on the Macbook Pro and the same 5 minute clip from Adobe Premiere Pro on the Spectre. The FCPX/Macbook Pro combination is much faster, and that’s his point. It’s not an apples- to- apples comparison but it does demonstrate what the machine can do. The results, and the later SSD and speaker comparison are well worth the 6 minute watch. Adobe Premiere Pro on the 2. Macbook Pro. In this updated video Jonathan reviews the 1. Helpfully he runs some . Ultimately Jonathan recommends thinking of the new Macbook Pro as the version 1. Macbook Pro. So unless you really have to, he recommends not rushing out to buy one just yet. Here Jonathan took 2 minutes of RED 5. K RAW footage and exported it to a 4. K H. 2. 64 file inside of Adobe Premiere Pro. He also runs a similar test in FCPX which again delivered faster results on the new Macbook Pro. These kind of performance improvements go along way to making me think that the 2. Macbook Pro would be a real boost compared to my ageing 1. The Hoo. Too USB- C hub (also in Space Grey) mounted under the front of the desk is also a great idea. But I’ve never seen an edit suite ever look that clean and tidy. Never. UPDATE – 2. Macbook Pro vs 2. Macbook Pro. If you’re looking for a very in- depth comparison of the 1. He also thinks that the hoopla over the lack of ports and the use of dongles, isn’t as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. Well worth a watch if you’re considering purchasing. Max also suggests springing for the upgraded graphics card over the upgraded CPU. Macbook Pro Vs Razer Blade Vs Dell XPSJarred Land, President of the RED Digital Cinema Company, has run some speed tests on . Awesome for Photoshop. Awesome for web and email and FCPX seems to be faster than it should be. Battery life great. And I love the keyboard that everyone else seems to hate. Thunderbolt 3 integration is a clusterfuck. As in it just doesn’t work. But eventually if they fix that. Its great being able to charge the laptop from any of the ports on either the left and right side. Touch bar adds an extra step to do pretty much anything. I miss the old keys. Internal SSD (2. TB on mine) is stupid fast. Stupid Stupid Stupid fast. Love you Apple but Fuck you Apple for taking away the SD slot. That screwed me so many times this weekend. And it’s why I don’t have a photo for this post. Am I going to buy the 2. Macbook Pro? For now, I think I’ll wait to see what happens next. Unless my laptop dies before another refresh occurs. It does look like a very capable machine for video editing and would be miles faster than my current machine. Also it will be interesting to see where the development of the Touch Bar goes, Apple obviously has a vested interest in making it work with as many applications as possible! It’s great that Da. Vinci Resolve was also mentioned in the launch keynote. Hands on with the New Macbook Pro Touch Bar. In this first video from FCP. Peter Wiggins you can get a really good hand’s on look at the new Touch Bar inside of FCPX 1. It’s interesting to see the matte finish to the Touch Bar and I hope the customisation that was demoed in the product launch video extends to specific apps as well. Premiumbeat. com’s always great value blog has a nice write up on the new features in FCPX and how to use them in conjunction with the all new Macbook Pro laptops with Touch Bar. Running on the new Mac. Book Pro, Apple claims a 7. K 3. D title rendering. The post also includes feature demonstration videos from Apple’s official FCPX page, which is handy if you’ve not seen them! There are a few more videos coming from the Cupertino demo of editor’s playing with the new Touch Bar in FCPX 1. In this short video you can see editor Thomas Grove Carter experimenting with the Touch Bar functionality too. UPDATE – Touchbar on an i. Pad. This post from Macrumors. Duet, the i. Pad app that turns your i. Fasting for Fast Weight Loss, Better Health, and Supreme Fitness. I stumbled across a fascinating article on something crazy called Intermittent Fasting (IF). Consisting of regular 1. Intermittent Fasting has been shown scientifically to help achieve fast weight loss, better health, and increased fitness levels. As a student of Optimal Living, I knew I had to dig in and learn more. And thus began an incredible journey down the path of intermittent fasting, towards my craziest challenge so far. The Evolutionary Perspective. Before I begin this story, let’s take quick walk up our family tree, all the way back to our hunter- gatherer ancestors, to understand this whole Intermittent Fasting concept. Now these guys, the hunter- gathered, they didn’t eat 3 meals at day at regular intervals like most do now. No, instead they went hunting & gathering, sometimes for days, before finding something good. As leading neuroscience & ageing expert Mark P. Mattson tells us, “our ancestors consumed food much less frequently and often had to subsist on one large meal per day, and thus from an evolutionary perspective, human beings were adapted to intermittent feeding rather than to grazing.”Hmm interesting. Could it be that modern society has put the human specie “zoo- like” environment, and our eating patterns have become progressively less optimal? And more importantly, what happens if we start eating the way we’re evolutionary programmed to? The answer, it turns out, is “amazing things”. The Mind- Blowing Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting. Here are the scientifically proven benefits of doing regular fasts of 1. Increased Fatty Acid Oxidation (Body burns more fat as energy, leading to fast weight loss)Increased Cell Resistance (Slowed down ageing process, improved immunity)Increased Insulin Sensitivity (Less fluctuation in blood sugar levels, more constant energy & mood levels)Reduced Cortisol Production (Lower stress levels)Reduced Inflammation (Faster body healing, repair, and recovery)Reduced Cancer Cells Proliferation Rate (Reduced incidence of several types of cancer)Reduced Cognitive Decline for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Reduced Incidence of Heart Disease. Not bad eh! And you haven’t heard the craziest part yet: most people start experiencing these benefits within 2 weeks of starting to fast! Oh, and if it weren’t enough, here’s a study that simply blows my mind: In the. On average, the worms on the IF cycle outlasted their counterparts on a regular diet by 1. The life- span extension of these worms was the equivalent of keeping a man alive for 6. I know these are only worms, but still. My Thoughts As I Discovered This. This was all phenomenal stuff, no doubt about it. And as someone who loves experimenting, often with the goal of optimizing body, mind, and health, it was very alluring. However, there was one major issue separating me from these incredible benefits. I had to FAST to obtain them! I had to abstain from my beloved food for 1. How the hell was I supposed to do that? To put you in context, I’m like the anti- fasting guy. I usually eat every 2 hours, and I’ve always been a big believer in the 6- small- meals- a- day concept. I bring snacks everywhere I go. The Asian girls in my classes always giggle when they see me peel and eat hard boiled eggs in the middle of a lecture to get my protein fix. The other problem is that when I go without food, I feel like crap. As soon as hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) sets in, my energy drops and I get cranky.“Yeah”, I thought, “You know what? Screw this fasting thing. I love food too much, and this is crazy anyways”. Turning Point: The Universe Gets Involved. Later that night, something strange happened. I grabbed the Men’s Health magazine issue next to my bed for a little pre- sleep reading. I opened the magazine randomly in the middle. The article that was in front of me? A piece on Intermittent Fasting titled “The World’s Most Effective Diet”. Wow. I’m a big believer in the flow of the universe, and that signs are the universe’s way of hinting us the right direction. As I read the MH article, I was moved by the great insight the author provided as he related the day- to- day lifestyle of an “intermittent- faster”, and describe all eloquently all the ways it had improved his life. I couldn’t help but think the universe was telling me something. This article was no coincidence, it was a sign. I pondered on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wisdom that “all life is one big experiment. The more experiments you do, the better.” and right there and then, I made a decision: “Intermittent Fasting for 1. Let’s do it.” Boom! I turned off the lights and closed my eyes, hoping to sleep for as long as possible. I wasn’t allowed to “break fast” until 5: 3. I had solid 7. 5 hours of no- food time ahead of me. All righttttt! I thought about it, and couldn’t even recall the last time I’d gone more than an hour before having my morning smoothie. I remembered wondering what I had gotten myself into, but I had committed to this little project and there was no way I was backing out. I did a little yoga, took my (cold) shower, and prepared my “copious” breakfast: a liter of green tea. I headed over to my computer, knowing full well that the key to this whole operation was to keep myself busy all day. I started working on my upcoming e. Book. I immersed myself in it, and before long I had an hour of good writing under my belt, and it was time to make more tea. Over the next few hours, I had little waves of hunger come in and out, but overall I felt focused and achieved a great state of flow. After 3 hours of solid creative work, I decided to step outside and enjoy the afternoon sunshine. I got on my bike, and went cruising around Perth, enjoying life. I couldn’t believe how well this experiment was going. When I got back from my bike ride, I remembered I had to do something. It was Sunday 4pm, the weekend market was about to close, and I didn’t have my groceries for the week. That’s right, I had to go grocery shopping. I had to go buying large amounts of delicious food after 1. The stakes had just been raised. I walked into the market, and my nostrils were immediately flooded with the wonderful aromas of fresh baked bread and croissants. I felt this sharp pain in my stomach, and thought about turning around. But no, this was a challenge, and pushing myself through this could only make me stronger. I got everything I needed, paid for my stuff, and even managed to remain courteous to the cashier despite my advance state of hunger. As I walked out, I looked down at my watch. I just had to go home, put the groceries away, then I would cook one hell of a feast. I felt a bit woozy driving home, my mind was a bit foggy as I unpacked my groceries, but before I knew it, my i. Phone alarm went off. A proud smile beamed over my face. I had just crushed this fasting day, put myself out of my comfort zone, and come out a bit stronger on the other side. Best feeling ever. And then, it was time for some fooooood!!! On fasting days, I appreciate my food SO MUCH more. That first bite of food after 1. I experience a high level of mental clarity, as more of my energy is being using for cognitive activities instead of the digestion process. I’m more productive and get more stuff done, because I spend less time preparing & eating food. It’s making me mentally tougher, it’s increasing my self- control. While cold showers give me a “let’s do this”- type mental toughness, fasting helps me remain focused & persistent over a longer period of time. Both are equally important part of getting my mind where I want it to be. Stepping Things Up: Training in a Fasted State. On the 1. 0th Day of Fasting, I celebrated by pushing the envelope a bit. Stepping things up if you will. I was chilling at the beach, and eventually got restless from too much reading & journaling, so decided to get up and go for a run along the water. This would be my first ever “fasted training session” and besides being fun, this run would serve 2 purposes: 1. Put my body under more “stress”, thus possibly “supercharging” the benefits of the fast. Allow me to enjoy the sights provided by the return of Australian summer & bikini- season : )The workout was amazing, I felt light and fast. I didn’t get tired, my mind felt clear, and I even received a few smiles from the ladies. Overall, great success. That night, happy with my first fasted training, I found myself thinking how I could take this Intermittent Fasting experiment to the next level. The very first article I found, on Fasted Training, absolutely blew my mind. This article by Intermittent Fasting expert Martin Berkhan looked at a groundbreaking study that looked at 2 groups of subjects, and put them on a cycling training program for 4 weeks. One group would do the training in fasted state, while to other group would have food before training. At the end of the 4 weeks, when comparing the results 2 main findings were discovered: 1. The fasted group increased VO2. Max by 9. 7% vs 2. This means that the fasted had a significantly greater fitness improvement. The fasted group increased Glycogen Storage (how much energy is stored in the muscles) by a whopping +5. This is of particular interest for endurance athletes because it allows for greater energy reserves. Think of it as a bigger fuel tank on a racing car. The article also taught me something very interesting: Kenyan runners, arguably the best endurance athletes on the planet, are known to do most of their training in a fasted state. Wait, what? Researchers then compared the subjects’ post- fasting blood samples to those taken after a day of normal eating. The scientists observed that the male participants’ levels of human growth hormone (HGH) were 2. HGH? WHAT?? For those who don’t know what it is, HGH is pretty much the “superhuman” hormone. It’s a commonly used substance in illegal doping protocols by high- level athletes.
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