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Greetings,
I need to speed up the iMovie encoding speed.
My budget is 1500 USD, so I can buy a new Mac Mini with i7 CPU.
Is it worth it, or is it enough/better to buy a Blackmagic external card for my current late 2012 Mac Mini? (For anything else my config is fine for me, I'm not a power user.)
Only 1080p videos, no 4K.
Thanks!
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
Do you have so hard tasks for rendering?
I have Mac Mini (late 2012), 16Gb RAM, standard HDD 1Tb 5400 rpm and I don't have any problems with 1080p render time. In real time, as I think. That is 40 minutes clip is exported for about a hour, not longer. Inside this project are 3 different source clips, frame inside frame, still images, color correction and so on. Not so difficult, but not so simple. Notice the source video is also 1080p.
I have similar rendering speed, but sometimes I need to create it much faster.
Blackmagic eGPU Pro with a Vega card can fit in my budget, but is it work with a Thunderbolt 2-3 adapter, and is it fasten iMovie two-thee times?
(Should I order it and if it's not fit my expectations, just send it back? :D )
Unfortunately they suggest an external GPU for Mac Mini, and the rest of them are out of my current budget.
In this case I can buy an eGPU for my current setup too.
Speed up iMovie encoding
