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Post & Workstations
What cuts, grades and renders it — including the parts an Unreal machine is built from.
49 products · 6 groups · 28 makers
Graphics & processors
- NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada — 32GB for the scenes that will not fit
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X — 32 cores, for simulation and heavy renders
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — What an Unreal scene and a 12K timeline both want
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Still the best value in used compute
- NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada — Workstation card, single slot, 20GB
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — The sensible half-price render card
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores — the sweet spot for a cutting room
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
- Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
- SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
- Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper
- G.Skill 64GB DDR5-6000 kit — The floor for 4K raw with effects
Macs & machines
- Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra — The big one, with memory to match
- Apple MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max — A cutting room that fits in a backpack
- Apple Mac Studio M4 Max — Silent, quick in Resolve, no build required
- Apple MacBook Pro 14" M4 Pro — The cutting room that fits in a camera bag
- Apple Mac mini M4 Pro — The cheapest machine that cuts 4K properly
- Apple MacBook Air 15" M4 — Silent, light, and enough for an offline edit
- Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint
Storage
- Synology DiskStation DS1823xs+ — Shared storage for a cutting room of two or three
- OWC ThunderBay 4 — Four bays of Thunderbolt storage for rushes
- QNAP TS-464 NAS — Four bays of shared storage for a two-editor room
- LaCie 2big RAID 16TB — Mirrored archive that survives one dead disk
- Samsung T7 Shield 4TB — Rubber-armoured pocket SSD for rushes
- Samsung 990 PRO 4TB NVMe — The scratch disk a grade runs off
- Crucial T705 2TB — PCIe 5.0 scratch disk — the fastest consumer NVMe
Displays & calibration
- ASUS ProArt PA32UCG-K — Mini-LED HDR reference-grade panel
- EIZO ColorEdge CG2700X — Self-calibrating reference monitor
- Apple Studio Display — 5K, accurate enough to cut on
- Apple iMac 24" M4 — One box, calibrated screen included
- BenQ SW272U — 4K, hardware calibration, a grading-adjacent price
- Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro — Clean video out to a reference monitor
- Dell UltraSharp U2723QE — The sensible 4K second monitor
- Calibrite Display Pro HL — Calibrates the monitor you are trusting
- Calibrite ColorChecker Video — The chart you shoot so the grade has a truth
Grading surfaces
- Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel — The full grading surface, short of a console
- Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel — Three trackballs — the moment grading clicks
- Tangent Ripple — The cheapest set of real trackballs
- Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor — A search dial, and Resolve Studio in the box
- Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio — The paid Resolve, bought once, kept for ever
- Blackmagic UltraStudio Recorder 3G — SDI and HDMI into a laptop over Thunderbolt
Sound
- Yamaha HS8 studio monitors — Honest speakers — they tell you what is wrong
- Genelec 8010A — Tiny, accurate, and they travel
- Yamaha HS5 monitors — The HS8’s small brother, for a desk rather than a room
- Adam Audio T5V — Ribbon tweeter at a price that should not allow it
- Kali Audio LP-6 V2 — Near-field monitors at a student price
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen — Two inputs for voice-over and ADR at the desk
- Audient iD4 MkII — One very good preamp, which is usually all you need
- Universal Audio Volt 2 — Two inputs with a valve emulation for voice-over
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