pls recomend computer to speed finalcut rendering

Try researching "improving FCPX performance." It's a lively topic on many FCPX forums.

The problem with recommending a Mac(basically, you get the fastest Mac you can afford with as much RAM as you can afford and hook some nice external drives to it) is that your particular workflow may be a big part of the problem, not just the number and speed of your CPU cores. And, because we're talking about video, the number of cores and raw CPU speed not directly or linearly relate to video processing speeds. It's all quite confusing.

You can research Mac CPU performance at sites like MacBench or GeekBench.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks

http://xbench.com

http://www.everymac.com/mac-benchmarks/index-mac-benchmarks.html

http://barefeats.com

http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/14/how-to-benchmark-your-mac-free-downloads/

By render do you mean export?

If export, what are your project settings and what are your export settings? FCP X relies heavily on the graphics card for export speed, so getting the best GPU you can afford will make a huge difference…whether it's a laptop or desktop Mac.

Or are you rendering a timeline 's clips (getting rid of the orange render bar) to get better playback while editing?

Russ

TThere is no to render before you export.

1) You don't need to render to export."All in" your processing time should be less if you ignore the render bar unless playback is so poor your edit decisions suffer. even then turn off BG rendering in FCP Preferences and render selectively . (Control-R).

2) GPU is your highest priority,

3) A 20 minute export fro a 3 hour movie is on the optimistic side.

FWIW, If you're near an Apple store, spend some time on their demos with their stock footage, See what the real differences are.

Russ

Don Spark wrote:

I am rendering a timelines clips (getting rid of orange bar).

I assume the render needs to complete before exporting.

Good to know the graphics card determines speed of export.

My video editing needs are pretty basic. Many of my videos are 1-3 hours long lectures etc. It must be HD and I need to do things like color correction to those long videos. I need speed.

If it's not a matter of cores and ram, where do I focus my study to get this render down from 5 hours to 20 minutes?

Lectures do not need to be 1080, wasted time and bandwidth... Shoot at 720, no one will know the difference. And you will cut your export/share time in half.

Color correction should be done at the shoot, not in post. Proper color balance is fundamental technique. Do it properly and you won't need to color correct at al and your share time will be reduced further.