Top end 5K iMac for video editing

If your budget permits, you might try going for the Mac Pro. It's explicitly recommended for content editors such as yourself. http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

HI moritzhberg,

I would strongly suggest that you compare the 5K iMac to the Mac Pro. You appear to be a professional, using big programs for your work (video, animation, photography), which take up tons of storage and plenty of processing power. I worked professionally in prepress, which used a fraction of my resources compared to what your work takes. I retired 10 years ago and got an iMac which just died. BUT you are more likely to have a Mac Pro live 10 years than an iMac. But do your homework. I'd start with the people at the Apple Store. Or call them. See if you can add storage, processing power &.Memory on a Mac

pro. if so, it will probably be the one, if you can budget it I .

BTW, beware of Yosemite if you have huge photo libraries in Aperture. When they got rid of iPhoto (now just PHOTOS, like in iOS, it will convert all your iPhoto libraries. It will ALSO. without asking, Convert all your Aperture libraries. I am very unhappy about this; had I known I would have bought my iMac with Mavericks, but they will be gone soon.

Moritzhberg,

You are right about one thing, to my surprise, the Mobile Radeon M295X is about as powerful (a bit more) then a single desktop FirePro D500.

http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/AMD+FirePro+D500/review

I have an upgraded iMac 5k, but i use it for gaming not video editing. She purrs along just fine with gaming. I even ran a modern gaming benchmark (bootcamped to Winders) here: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/ at 4k (Winders dont do 5k) and got a score of 4500+ which they call "High Performance" I thought it would fall over at 4k res in a modern 3d game.

I know that's not the answer you're looking for, but maybe help you gauge the video performance. But as you likely know, 3D gaming and video editing are completely different stories.

Salspix is mistaken in one aspect. Photos will ask to import one single iPhoto or Aperture library to create a Photos library. The only thing that happens to the original library is that it is flagged so that iPhoto will give a warning that Photos has taken a copy. (Aperture does something similar, I think; not sure.) You may plow ahead using iPhoto and/or Aperture, but changes made to a library by iPhoto/Aperture won't be seen by Photos and vice versa.

Additional libraries will not be imported unless and until you specifically open them with Photos.

The most important thing when getting a new machine be sure you order it with all the RAM the machine will hold and I think you will have NO PROBLEMS at all.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR CHOICE.

DON

Apple does a really good job /w bootcamp and scaling when running windows. I'm running winders 7. It does fine, BUT, text is blurry on the iMAC 5k. Again, the only thing I'm doing in bootcamped Winders is launching a 3d game, which works very well and it looks beautiful. But there is something up with it not able to do 5k and how text looks. It may not impact you If your only thing is images.

Sure thing, here you go, and the game is running at 1440p at decent settings. :

http://youtu.be/rP7GAFL87NM

Dead Silent!

Now, don't get me wrong, and after an hour or so or i do a raid or something the fan does at least kick on, but i'be never heard it go "rocket" loud. She just purrs along.

However, this is boot camped windows 7. My daughter plays Sims 3 on the mac, and the fan starts as soon as the game does. I think OS X is doing this on purpose, and "always" has the fan on when the GPU has any type of load. I'll know a lot more when the Mac client for my game is released next month.