“Is this mac book pro good for making and editing vidoes? movies?”
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Yes. you'll have no trouble with editing videos or making videos. One word of advice, bump up the memory as high as the system will allow, which I believe is shelved between 8 - 16Gb.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, you can do this on the 13" Macbook Pro, it is adequate or '''good enough" for the job, just not as fast as the latest processor generations, nor as fast as a quad core i7 processor. But that does not mean it "cannot" be used effectively, especially by a home or "amateur" user. If you are a pro needing the fastest machines for a living where time is money and every second saved is additional income, then I would think you already would know you need the latest and greatest to accomplish this task, and write the cost off as a business expense. Likewise, if you are a pro studio movie producer, you would already have the latest equipment available to you at the studio, I would think. Consider that far slower older computers (like last year's models! or "older"), that used "top of the line" processors in their day but got "passed by" by technology advances were used to edit video successfully. Consider also the Macbook Air is able to process video with a much less powerful processor than in the Macbook Pro. So, what I'm saying is that you can effectively use the 13" Macbook Pro for video or photo editing, it just won't be the fastest thing going, but not so pokey either as to make it unusable. It will in all probability meet your needs if they are not too demanding. However, it would benefit you greatly to increase the base memory to at least 8 GB, and install a SSD either via the USB 3.0 port, or as a replacement to the internal drive, as this will speed things up considerably.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes and no. Depending on the end product you want. Yes, the free iMovie app is an excellent product. As long as you don't want to get super sophisticated in your editing the iMovie app does a lot for something you get included free. I found it fairly easy to use, especially since there are You Tube tutorials. Just make sure the tutorials you watch are recent. If you want to post the videos online or make data DVD disks then iMovie is a great tool. If you really want to make it hum on the video making, watch for some sales... you can replace the hard drive with an SSD and upgrade the RAM to 16GB for around $220. That makes it really zoom and produces a machine that video edits without the slightest hesitation, in my experience. Once you purchase the SSD and RAM, I am sure Geek Squad will replace your hard drive and RAM for a fee, but after watching You Tube instructional videos, it was fairly simple to do myself. No, if you want to make Home move DVDs that play on any DVD player with Menus and Chapters. That's not the machine, that's Mac. When they took most of the DVD burners out of their newest models, they stopped supporting the iDVD app that allowed you to take your iMovie produced videos and burn them to DVDs with menus and chapters. I think they made this decision prematurely, but it depends on what you want to do with your videos. There are lots of 3rd party apps available that do Video DVD burning, but being new to Mac, I haven't determined yet which one is a good one. None get great reviews. Final Cut Pro is the Mac app of choice for super great video editing functionality, but that costs $300 and you'd probably want to go to a newer model Mac for that, which isn't exactly a budget option.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.That is the reason I bought this Mac. I have already upgraded the RAM to 16gb and it works fine. But editing videos, I haven't finished yet, because of the busy time that I am in now. I did some testing with Final Cut editing software and it worked. I downloaded the software for the evacuation, though I haven't completed the video editing yet! I did not want to spend a lot of money, otherwise I would have bought a larger screen size.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you want to make simple movies, sure. iMovie is a nice place to start. I have not tried Final Cut on this MBP.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it has software for editing videos.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it comes with standard imovies software which is great for basic editing. For more complex editing features you would need to buy final cut pro software.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.My son just took a film class, he had to make a couple of short films and used his mac book pro and the software that came preinstalled. He was able to do all that he needed and he really enjoyed using the software.
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