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Hi everyone, Aaron here for Zollotech and this is
MacOS Mojave. I've been using it for two weeks on this
2016 13-inch MacBook Pro.
This is the top spec one with the 512 gig solid state drive.
So this one is pretty fast as far as what it does most of the time
and while I'm on the go, I use it to edit in Final Cut Pro
and do all of my on the go editing.
Now this particular version is pretty good for
an early beta but still has its bugs.
So, you'll see we're in the dark mode right now, you can tell at the top here this bar is dark.
And you can easily switch that in system preferences.
Now it works, I'd say 95% of the time,
you can go between light and dark here.
But it works pretty well with the exception of certain applications
that are not yet updated for it.
So maybe things, maybe I'm in Airmail
or one of these applications and sometimes the dark mode just doesn't work right
and I'm sure that will be updated later on.
So that's not too big of a deal
but when we're in applications such as Final Cut Pro,
this is where I've noticed some differences.
So I edit a lot and here you'll see it brings this up,
it's taking a moment, and this is a video I edited last week.
So what you'll see here is we can scroll through the timeline no problem
but what happens when I try to export this is it's really slow.
So, for example, if I go to the end of this timeline
you'll see it's 3 minutes long roughly,
and this video normally would take me 3-5 minutes to fully compress
Now it's taking 40-45 minutes to compress this video, the same exact video took that long
so it's not something you'd really want to use if you're editing regularly,
at least that's been my experience.
Sometimes you'll get popups that it's not compatible and that the app needs to be updated.
And if that pops up I'll show you here
Let's exit this and you'll see it takes a while to exit.
Just waiting for it, there we go.
And applications such as Pixelmator seem to work OK
And now Pixelmator Pro is open, you'll see it looks OK, it works fine
but sometimes I'll get an app compatibility message just like I do in Final Cut Pro,
photos and the regular Pixelmator.
So these are things that need to be updated, it's not a huge deal
but for an early beta it's pretty stable.
We've got our little Stacks here
which work really well.
And everything else seems to be pretty stable,
News is working OK, let's go open this up.
These new apps... You'll see things are a little bit slow
and normally they open much faster when I wasn't on the beta.
So there's definitely some optimisation that needs to be done there.
And we'll see that I'm sure with future updates and by the time it's out.
So that's really all there is to it, I think it's safe to run if you don't have any production-level things to do,
if you're not editing videos or photos,
and you just want to try it out it's probably pretty safe
but if you just want to use it on your main machine,
I would highly advise against that because
it may cut into the production time of doing different things
such as Final Cut Pro, for example.
I can't speak to Adobe as far as that working but
I'm assuming, based off the changes to the architecture,
using Metal and no longer using Open GL,
that might be what's slowing it down.
So let me know if you've had those same compatibility issues
with Final Cut Pro or Pixelmator, if any of those issues or those pop ups coming up,
I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comments below.
If you'd like to see more of these updates on Mojave, as well as iOS that I normally do,
let me know if you'd like to see the follow ups on the betas of Mojave as well.
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As always, thanks for watching. This is Aaron, I'll see you next time!
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