What is going on, everybody?
It is Mike and welcome back 24/7.
I'm so excited to have you back here because I've gotten a lot
of comments based on my previous video where I unboxed
talked about the M1.
Mac mini.
This is Apple's system on a chip that integrates CPU, GPU,
hardware controllers to security ship and unified
memory into a single device.
Now, in today's video, we're going to do some testing
around Final Cut Pro and how this machine performs using
Final Cut Pro in answer the age old question that I'm sure
everyone watching this video has.
Can I use this thing to edit a video, which is really kind
of a valid question because it's got attractive price point
in terms of performance.
It's actually kind of performing better than my more
expensive MacBook Pro.
And we're going to get understanding of how this
machine is going to perform in today's video.
Let's get started.
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Everything that you see here on my enrols record with a Sony A7
three with a 24 millimeter G-Master.
, this is going to be recorded on external recorder using the
atomos NINJA five.
Now, in terms of the type of tests, I'm going to
import the footage.
I'm going to go ahead and create optimized media.
I'll create proxy media, delete that media, and then
I'll also go ahead and play color correction,
LUTS and motion graphics.
Now, the problem with some of these with some of these videos
that I have here as an example, these are going to
have existing color correction and LUTS apply to them where
the developer of those have not updated them.
So I've completely turned them off in the instance of
instances where I can something like these transitions, I can't
turn them off because they're just not updated at all,
making remove them.
But that wouldn't necessarily do anything because it's not
like the footage doesn't play.
It just plays some default clip.
So you're seeing here, let's make sure we're going to
go in and take all of these clips here.
It looks like there's some definitely some lock
up happening, but we're we'll give it a moment.
This project is eighty five gigs in terms of a project and
the master file when it outputs is in the neighborhood of
forty six gigs.
So it's absolutely not a small project.
And I'd love to know what size projects that you guys are
working on in terms of how this relates to what you do.
So that was just some kind of brief hiccup, it looks like.
Now I'm going to go here, I'm going to go to delete
generated media files.
Let's pull up the RAM.
So here, Ram, we're using one point nine gigs of RAM.
Let's go file delete deleted files,
delete optimized.
And delete any kind of proxy files, let's click, OK?
And so if I go to the project level here at the very top,
I see that there are 83 gigs, nothing in optimize,
nothing in proxy files.
So this is on this is on the machine here.
So now here, I'm going to go ahead and click on.
File master file, and this is going to go in and create a
master file in ProRes 422 from this project.
Click on settings, you can do audio video we see here.
The resolution is thirty eight forty by nineteen twenty.
That's two to one aspect ratio.
That's how I render my videos.
Compressor is going to be the next action and we have all the
video and audio roles, including the motion graphics.
So I'm going to say this render test one.
I'll let me make sure I have my phone so we can go in time.
This all right.
So we have a zero as the time we're going to click on next.
Do render test one, and this is going to be going to my
internal drive and we're going to click start and we
click start,
The few times that I did this, I was running screen recording
on my Mac and it was a dog like it didn't actually even took
like 10 minutes to go and export this file.
So I would tell you that if you are trying to validate the
functionality that I'm going through right now and you're
going to export files, you certainly don't run screen
recording because that is going to slow down
your Mac unbelievably.
We are ninety four seconds.
Sorry.
Ninety four percent.
Three minutes and twenty one seconds.
So three minutes and twenty one seconds to get this
master file.
Now, let's go ahead and throw we're going to convert this or
transcode this to HEVC.
And let's take a look here with how that performs.
Now, I don't need to measure this or time this
because compressor, which is a built in or this is a
professional app from Apple, it has a timer built in
there automatically, which if you're not using compressor,
I would say it's definitely something that we consider
adding to my workflow for 50 bucks, you are able to
export multiple formats from a single batch.
And it really I think it just helps with, in my opinion,
the quality of the video, because first you output a
master and then from that master you output to these
other non-master formats such as EVC or MPEG-4 for whatever
the case is, depending on where you're opening for, this is
still completely scrub.
All right.
I'm doing nothing.
I'm playing it.
It's all coming here.
There's nothing, no delay.
It just plays effortlessly.
Even when these titles aren't working and you got to
turn them off.
It's pretty freakin smooth, very impressive.
I think that the application of this, if you are someone who
has if you obviously live in the Final Cut Pro ecosystem
right now, it's it is very good for you.
Now, this is obviously a a kind of very narrow look of how this
computer performs with certain types of footage shot in
certain aspect ratios under certain conditions and correct
a certain way.
So there's very kind of it's not broadly applicable to
everyone that's watching this video.
That's just how it is.
But if you are shooting with a certain type of camera or you
have footage that you want me to go out and test, please let
me know in the comments below.
I will go ahead and work with you to get the footage into
important and see how it looks.
That is certainly a very good use case.
Now here, going back to compressor, we're about
fifty percent done.
We're at two minutes and 50 seconds.
So it looks like it's on track for that six minute mark.
Now, I can tell you that seriously, this wood,
this footage, this project would absolutely bottleneck in
probably crash my back because I was getting maybe six or
seven crashes a day.
Working with projects is big in the past.
And this is a very common sized project for me.
For video that I put out, I put out one or two videos that are
this size and I've kind of this scope and magnitude per week.
Other videos are usually shorter and they don't have
as much impact.
And let's just look at performance here.
So we look at the CPU performance.
So it shows CPU performance is about 50 percent of
the way here.
Actually, it is.
Fifty percent earlier when I was using Final Cut Pro, it was
almost 100 percent.
It looks like compressor's using seven percent
of processes available.
The GPU is not even pegged shows memory is Max, but I
don't know is whether or not I start menu, which is the
application I use to monitor all these different KPIs.
Whether or not it's been updated, take advantage of
the new operating system in the M1.
So that's something that's still unknown.
Let's just do kind of another test.
Let's do Photoshop.
I'm going to open that up here on the same machine.
So I Photoshop.
Final Cut Pro and compressor, which is transcoding a video,
so now here I'm going to go ahead and go to this.
And you see here I am adding, you know, vibrance turning
these layers off.
There's one, two, three, four.
There's like nine layers in this Photoshop document that
I'm working on, which is not necessarily a lot.
But to give you an idea of how things run at this point,
let's go back.
There's a Final Cut Pro where you air compressor
is almost done.
Five minutes and thirty four seconds.
We're about 95 percent done.
And you could see again, using all three of these apps
at the same exact time, it's running pretty smoothly.
So I would feel confident unless you're shooting like AK
and I would I would actually even think that some degree AK
if it's progres, you're definitely gonna have
definitely should be playable.
But if you have footage and you want me to check it out, let me
know in the comments below and then we'll work together to go
ahead and get that done here.
This is complete now.
Test for render.
So we finished at six minutes on the button.
So again, first one three minutes and 18 seconds.
Second one, six minutes.
That is a trans code to progress, four to two and
then a trans code to achieve six minutes.
So total project time under ten minutes for to exports.
That is pretty insane in my opinion.
Let me know what you have been experiencing on
your existing computer.
Now I have more content planned around testing on the M1,
the Mac Mini as well as I have the MacBook Pro, which should
be here Monday or Tuesday of next week, which is
Thanksgiving here in the U.S.
So let me know what kind of tests that you want me to run.
And I have some additional content planned around.
This is this is awesome.
This is really great.
I am like this is tech 24/7 TV.
I'm so glad that you join me today.
Hope to see you in the next video.