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and we need as much power as we can get if we're going to have any hope of editing 4k so this is Apple's 12-inch MacBook on paper it is terribly under power with a 1.1 gigahertz core processor notice great graphics so if I told you it could not only edit but also export 4k video faster and more efficiently than a PC with more power you probably think I was crazy but keep watching recently Linus tech tips drop the video posing the question can you edit 4k video on an ultra portable laptop my immediate thought was yeah of course you can but the more I watch the more I realize how much simpler of a process it was doing so with Final Cut Pro 10 they went with an Asus Zenbook ux302 3 you configured with an i7 2.5 gigahertz processor 12 gigs of RAM and dedicated Nvidia GT 940m graphics now not only should this obliterate the 12-inch MacBook it's actually a 13-inch laptop and falls closer in line with the 13-inch MacBook Pro but to keep things interesting we're going to stick with the underpowered MacBook to begin with Linus and company try dropping footage straight from their cameras in the premiere pro only to discover less than stellar results CPU usage was pegged at a hundred percent right away to the point where we were measuring performance in seconds per frame not frames per second so in order to even have a snowball's chance in hell with that they had to take the original footage transcoded on a desktop bring it back to the laptop and then turn the playback resolution down to a quarter of the original just to get a workable experience but how did the MacBook fare with a 12-inch MacBook I was able to transfer 4k sony fs7 footage directly onto the laptop and add an entire 4k video without transcoding scrubbing across clips in the timeline was surprisingly smooth and while playback was definitely a little choppy it was workable now if you've never used it Final Cut Pro 10 will actually render your timeline in the background while you're doing other tasks so with this clip here for example I applied a layer of color correction and as it renders out it's converting the timeline into ProRes no desktop needed after it's rendered you can see how smooth playback is it's crazy scrubbing is butter and I can instantly switch between full screen playback and timeline playback without missing a beat and keep in mind this is all done within one machine if I did follow a workflow similar to Linus I could transcode all the footage on an iMac and then edit off an external SSD with a MacBook but that almost seems unfair scrubbing and playback would be instantaneous with no background rendering needed and all that is cool and well but what about exporting with lino setup after all was said and done his two-minute 4k h.264 export took around 17 to 20 minutes as far as the 12-inch MacBook goes I decided to take it up a notch not just export a two-minute 4k video but a near four-minute one 3 minutes and 54 seconds to be exact so while the MacBook does this thing let's take a moment to read a few of my favorite tweets to all those who thought I was nuts see you at CES 2017 when it's all done exporting things you could do while you wait build a new PC install premiere re-edit your video export it uploaded to YouTube and nap Jon's resolution for 2020 hopefully the video finishes exporting after you chopped a video on a 12-inch MacBook did you cook your turkey on it so jumping back to the export we are just about done 6 minutes in a second when it hit 100% in 6 minutes and 12 seconds when I stop the clock now just to make this just a little more interest and I wouldn't did the exact same export but with background rendering off so the entire timeline had not been rendered yet so all the color correction and everything was done through the export similar to what you would find in Premiere and even that with the video twice the length exported in just under 13 minutes so even in the worst case scenario Final Cut Pro 10 with a video twice the length was still faster than a PC with more power in Premiere Pro and on top of that to solidify things if I took this project and cut it down to 2 minutes that export took 3 minutes and 20 seconds now to make this even more interesting Linus and team I present to you a challenge myself versus your entire team weapon of choice as far as computers go so you can pick your crazy 36 core server and let's go head-to-head with a challenge and creating a video from start to finish now if you guys want to see that make sure to smash that like button so John's with TLD and I will catch you guys later