I’ve noticed issues with how it uses memory and working with Fusion was even worse. Resolve is optimized, but the beta crashes. I mostly use DaVinci Resolve and various Adobe apps and that has not been as smooth sailing. My own personal experience does say that this is an ideal situation. If you can get past the render times, the ability to actually edit in real or near-realtime with a Mac mini is incredible. That’s ages and likely it needing to power through tough raw footage and some H.265. Two minutes took nearly two and a half hours. Time for the render test! And here’s where it slows down dramatically. The early playback seems to be quite seamless before adding any edits yet. The raw is being processed into Canon Log 2 in Final Cut during playback. Ross loads the footage directly into FCP.

4K 10-bit HEVC 60p footage from Sony a7S III.

He wants it to be using as much of the M1 chip’s potential for these tests. The other thing he does is make sure to turn off as many other apps as possible. He happens to be using a 16GB Mac mini – 16GB referring to the memory – and Final Cut Pro.

Limited I/O compared to Intel offeringsĮven with those limitations, when all the software and hardware aligns, say you are using Final Cut, then the M1 Macs sing.Apps need to be optimized for M1 (Apple Silicon) chips.We will get more into those as we go through this, but the big points are this: How about we stretch it to its limit? Filmmaker Kevin Ross wanted to by taking some top-notch 4K and raw 8K clips and putting it through the M1 Mac mini.īefore we get into Ross’ results, I want to say as an M1 Mac mini owner that it is an incredibly powerful machine for video editing with some very big caveats. Everyone can now have a powerful editing computer on their desk without needing to spend tens of thousands of dollars.

The real kicker is that the M1 Mac mini costs as little as $600 on sale and is crushing it with select video editing workflows. Apple says they are going to revolutionize their computers! This isn’t totally the truth, but there have been some impressive improvements and demos showing the M1 chip blazing through some tough applications and workflows. There’s a lot of talk about the M1 Mac mini.

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