Thank you! You saved my sanity. Shooting at 4K is a playback problem with my computer. I can shoot at 2k and it plays back fine. I read somewhere that few people call tell the difference anyway unless their screen is large enough.
That is not quite true ..... Shooting in 4K and playing in 2K is better than shooting and playing in 2K. I dont know the reason but the difference is very noticeable. Of course that's assuming that the video is true 4K instead of inflated from lower resolution
I have an iMAC with 16 GB RAM and have difficulty editing, I was told that I should either edit in PROXY (which I do) or get 32GB RAM. My next computer will have 32GB RAM. Right now, if I don't edit in PROXY mode (Premiere Pro) everything is as slow as molasses. I have no problems editing in PROXY with my 16GB RAM. You seem to have only 4 GB of RAM. Very slow computer.
Looks like your next computer, if an iMac again will have the m1 or m2 integrated chip. The laptops and mini have it now. It's rivaling and in some instances blowing away their $4k power pro models used for video editing in the movie business. The results have been nothing short of amazing.
The new imac has everything on one chip. So transfer of information is amazingly fast. People with the laptops are reporting that 16mb of memory is more than sufficient where these days 32 mb would be needed. The thing is able to utilize all memory for the GPU and CPU at will, something other computers never did. The computer is so tight and uses so little power that there is virtually no heat emitted sort of like an iPad. I don't think they need fans. The cost will be no more than current imacs and reportedly probably come in slightly less because they don't use anything from Intel. It's their own chips. All of these things have happened this way with the rollout of the laptops and mini so we know them to be the case. Search for m1 chip on youtube. They look at these new chipsets and compare them to some very powerful computers. One guy just bought $5000 worth of computer for video editing of movies and he's using his $899 M1 mini for the same thing. He's a bit angry.
Yes, they have beta versions and many of them will run with rosetta which is the bridge that apple provides. Adobe has promised final conversions of all it's stuff in 2021. Will probably be done before I pull the trigger for an M1. My 2014 27" imac is still going strong but the second imac M1 generation is when I'll switch.
I'm going to go through all the hoops of putting High Sierra on my iMac on Sunday (that's how old it is) I have to do the APFS file system conversion which will take a while. As you can see, mine is much older and slower than yours but it still works for a lot of the Adobe stuff I do for work (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc...) You're not that old Dale, it's only a number and I like how you're still so involved in the forum and technology.
I'm in a similar situation. I've owned macs since 1984, the year they came out. And other apple products before that. What I find amazing is that unlike the computers of old, the things, these days, will stay viable for such a long time. Used to be after two years stuff progressed so that the older machine was almost unusable. Now for most things it just doesn't matter. I'm not talking about rendering but other stuff. And, unlike the old days, I could go a year without restarting this thing and it wouldn't matter. In fact the only time it's restarted is if I do some kind of update that requires it or we have a power failure. When we went from os9 to osX years ago Jobs moved everything to a linux based system. Stability was the norm after that.
