Will the 13'' Retina MacBook Pro (2013) run Final Cut Pro

It should work, but it won't be as fast in processing information.

http://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/specs/

• OS X v10.9 or later
• 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K)
• OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

Intel HD Graphics 4000

I'll ask this thread be moved to the Final Cut Pro forum for verification.

FCP will work on the 13" rMBP and would run faster on the 15" rMBP but of course that is a lot more expensive.

Here are some graphics benchmarks:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Apple-MacBook-Pro-Retina-13-Late-2013-Notebo ok.105035.0.html

http://blog.alex4d.com/2013/10/30/brucex-a-new-fcpx-benchmark/

You will probably find more opinions on this topic in the FCP forum. http://www.fcp.co/forum

Ask your question there.

I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13.3", 8GB RAM and 512GB Disk. I also have a Mac Pro eight core with 16GB RAM and a Apple 5770 graphics card. I use both for editing Final Cut Pro X V10.1. The MBPR is far, far faster than my Mac Pro. I suspect its because the 5770 is so old, a 660GTX is being ordered to replace the 5770.

Anyway to answer your question, a Macbook Pro Retina display is perfectly acceptable for running FCP X with normal video. if you are editing 4K video thats a different problem, but if you were doing that you would already know the answer 🙂

Please what CPU do you have? in your "Macbook Pro Retina 13.3", 8GB RAM and 512GB Disk"?

I consider to buy this rMBP 13" with 2,4 CPU and use it sometimes for some 5 - 10 minutes Full HD videos (editing in Final Cut X) for advertisement.

Thank you for our opinion

I have the i7 3Ghz MBP Retina. It was the fastest you could buy in mid 2013.

I've just cut a 6 min video in 1280 x 720 and it was fine editing it. I don't use many complex transitions so it only took 4mins 30 secs to render (assuming background render was turned on). It took 20 mins when you moved to two pass encode though 🙂

I've no doubt you could edit but it might take a long time to render, though you could do it overnight once you're happy. FCP rendering is a direct function of the CPU so the better the CPU the faster. SIngle pass encoding is faster on i7 chips than Xeons, two pass encoding is faster on Xeons though. Thats due to the H264 hardware encoding on the i7 chips that is missing on the Xeons.

Thank you

I try to make a decision btw.

As I wrote here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5994285.

I need the laptop for my work with photography, some webdesign, and graphic mostly done in PS CC and Final Cut/iMovie (not daily use maybe 2x a week). Videos will be not long, I assume mostly up to 10 minutes – short advertisement or home video – Full HD taken with my iPhone 4S.

I could not spent more money in rMBP 13” – only for the 2,4 i5 CPU/ 8GB/ 256 SSD, but I hope I can live with it and for 80% of my work it is enough.

It is clear to me that I cannot expect fast video rendering, but I think is it not bad configuration and also usable for some work with video too.

Some things on the Macbook Pro are faster than my Mac Pro eight core. I don;t know about the Macbook Air but the latest version of the Macbook Pro Retina have H264 encoding in hardware, this means they are very quick to do output rendering if all they are doing is transcoding. If you are doing lots and lots of effects, the macbook will be slower but its still very good.

As I said before, no idea on Macbook Air, or other Macbooks. Check carefully before you buy.

Rob