You edit using ProRes or some other kind of RAW proxy, which is then either high enough quality to be used directly, or at the end of the process what is basica

You edit using ProRes or some other kind of RAW proxy, which is then either high enough quality to be used directly, or at the end of the process what is basically a list of instructions can be issued by the software to perform all the operations required on the uncompressed file, offline/non-realtime. Then it doesn’t matter so much about the power of the machine because it just crunches the data, albeit for hours on end.