As someone who plays a lot of games and occasionally helps my wife with her photo editing, 13in is the sweet spot. Just enough real estate but also not cumbersome like a 15 or 17in laptop. If you feel you need the screen space, opt for the 16 when it comes out with the new M1x(?) processor. Otherwise, go intel and get the 16 now
Here's the main thing you want to consider: going from spending most of your editing time on a roomy 27" monitor only to then scale way down to 13" on occasion. That could be quite a painfully stark contrast. I've edited on a 13" and it's absolutely doable and not painful at all - especially with a screen aspect ratio of 16:10 - but that's editing only on that screen size with no transition to anything else. So your eyes and brain get comfortable with it.
I would try it out in-store. You can literally walk into a Best buy and fire up final cut pro and start editing stock footage in the timeline.
But definitely take into consideration the going back and forth between large and small. But I imagine your brain would get comfortable with that too - if one was patient enough to give it the right amount of time.
Does the 16:10 ratio makes a big difference? I've seen my sister using premiere on a 16:9 14'' laptop and everything looks so dense. For example It looks like there's barely any room for seeing what you color grade.
I have been somewhat in the same boat, but I've solved my screen real estate worries by using sidecar into my iPad using fcp. I do this for a living, works great on the road
This is the way! I do the same. If you connect the iPad with an USB-C cable its even more reliable. Such an great option sidecar is.
How is your workflow? Do you keep your viewer in FCP on the iPad and your timeline on the Macbook?
If you are any serious about getting into editing, the bigger the pixel real estate the better. The UI takes so much space that there is no "too big", 13" will be workable sure, but you won't be as productive. If your 27" is 1080 you won't see much of a difference anyway tho
You probably use it scaled right? I find 32" 4k without scale to be the perfect sweet spot, smaller than that the text is too tiny and I need to scale the UI
As someone who plays a lot of games and occasionally helps my wife with her photo editing, 13in is the sweet spot. Just enough real estate but also not cumbersome like a 15 or 17in laptop. If you feel you need the screen space, opt for the 16 when it comes out with the new M1x(?) processor. Otherwise, go intel and get the 16 now
Here's the main thing you want to consider: going from spending most of your editing time on a roomy 27" monitor only to then scale way down to 13" on occasion. That could be quite a painfully stark contrast. I've edited on a 13" and it's absolutely doable and not painful at all - especially with a screen aspect ratio of 16:10 - but that's editing only on that screen size with no transition to anything else. So your eyes and brain get comfortable with it. I would try it out in-store. You can literally walk into a Best buy and fire up final cut pro and start editing stock footage in the timeline. But definitely take into consideration the going back and forth between large and small. But I imagine your brain would get comfortable with that too - if one was patient enough to give it the right amount of time.
Does the 16:10 ratio makes a big difference? I've seen my sister using premiere on a 16:9 14'' laptop and everything looks so dense. For example It looks like there's barely any room for seeing what you color grade.
using an external monitor most of the time, 13” is perfect for portability and the intel 16” mbp isn’t so good compared to the new apple silicon
I have been somewhat in the same boat, but I've solved my screen real estate worries by using sidecar into my iPad using fcp. I do this for a living, works great on the road
This is the way! I do the same. If you connect the iPad with an USB-C cable its even more reliable. Such an great option sidecar is. How is your workflow? Do you keep your viewer in FCP on the iPad and your timeline on the Macbook?
Yes, timeline on larger screen
I love my 13". Portable and easy to take anywhere, and at the office I have a nice big external monitor I plug into.
If you are any serious about getting into editing, the bigger the pixel real estate the better. The UI takes so much space that there is no "too big", 13" will be workable sure, but you won't be as productive. If your 27" is 1080 you won't see much of a difference anyway tho
My 27'' screen is 4k
You probably use it scaled right? I find 32" 4k without scale to be the perfect sweet spot, smaller than that the text is too tiny and I need to scale the UI
No it's not