it's been a week since i got the 2021 macbook pro m1 max 32 core 32 gigs of unified memory and one
terabyte that's the base model and it's been a week since i had this reaction holy [ __ ] like
this caught me by surprise and in this video i will update you on my thoughts on this device
as a creative as a filmmaker as a video editor answer a bunch of your questions run a few more
render tests so that you can decide if this device is something for you you want to put an order in
you want to cancel your pre-order whatever it is it's up to you also i just got my first very first
apple watch the series 7 so you can totally see me right now transforming into an apple fanboy
so the first thing that jumps into my eye every time i open this device
especially compared to my 2018 macbook that i'm still using is not the notch no
but it's actually the screen real estate it is noticeably bigger it feels more immersive it uh
it is more fun to actually watch something on it be it a youtube video movie or edit my videos also
tied to that is again i mentioned in my first video and that's the audio quality that comes
out of these speakers it's more rich it's more bassy and that helps actually with your video edit
so talking about editing i actually edited the full 18 minute review of the m1 max on this device
and it blew my mind because it enabled me to do things that i was never able to do before major
change for me was that i was able to edit this entire project in the original media without any
proxies in better quality mode without any problem it's super smooth even when i lay it on luts and
two video frames and a screen recording no matter what i threw it it was fine except when i actually
added some 3d animation text on it and still had my komodo footage and had some grades on it
that's when it started just a little bit but like it made editing so much more smooth that i
really really enjoyed it and this for me is like really the reason why i got this device so that as
me as a video editor i can do these kind of things and have actually a way more enjoyable and smooth
video editing experience in particular also like pulling up luts adding effects
booting up the system and just adding any any layer of like an adjustment layer or dragging
in footage it's just everything just happens almost instantaneously which previously for me
sometimes meant that i had to wait for a minute or two and so overall it really made my editing
process much faster also the expert of this 18 minute 4k project took me about 15 to 20
minutes i didn't time it to export and render and that leads me to a question that has been going
around and has been vigorously discussed and this is do you need an m1 max or is the m1 pro fine
now from what i've gathered and i've i've only one device so i can't do a side-by-side test but what
i've heard is that the m1 pro in most instances is equal to the m1 max especially when it comes
to photo editing basic video editing you should be fine with the m1 pro though when you go into some
serious video editing the m1 max seems to be still the champion here especially when it comes to the
encoding and decoding one of the questions i had in my last video and i just got confirmation from
one of you guys in the comments is that if only the 16 inch model has the high power mode if you
need to boost some computing power to your machine it's only possible on the 16 inch m1 max model
not the 14 inch so in case you're between the two get the bigger one to enable the high power
now one point that you made very clear in the comments is that some of these editing programs
may have performance issues if they are being watched like by a screen recording now what i
did is we ran the render test of the 30 second 8k red code raw r3d v-raptor footage to see if the
performance was inhibited due to the screen recording on final cut pro premiere pro
and resolve now drum roll premiere pro stayed the same at 3 minutes 54 a second faster than before
but pretty much unchanged without screen recording great well whatever it's still a good export time
but you all pointed out that particularly resolve has some issues there when being watched and so i
exported it again and we landed at 2 minutes and 54 seconds that is about a minute faster than with
screen recording so yes you are all right resolve is fast resolve is also faster than final cut pro
i made a mistake i accidentally exported the final cut pro video in prores and there it only took
47 seconds but if i export it as h.264 like the other clips it takes three minutes and 16. so yes
resolve is faster than final cut pro on this machine to export the same clip roughly the
same clip and premiered clocks in just 40 seconds slower than final cut pro in the previous video i
was also bashing the r5 8k footage a lot because it was not playing back smoothly
again people have pointed out that screen recording may have been an issue
i'm looking at it right now still choppy i i have a lut and two luts on it and grain
so if i remove that nope still sharpie so again r5 8k all eye footage
i mean everything else is working perfectly fine so it must be this weird 8k
codec that that canon has
now last but not least i want to quickly touch on the handling of this device the weight
is very similar i have not had an issue i've not carried it in a backpack yet well i think she did
carry it in the backpack was not a big problem one thing that i really enjoy about it as well
and again this is just like a one week test is the battery life i keep this thing oftentimes
unplugged for a couple of hours and added in it so i think i would say like three to
four hours of final cut pro editing you can get in one battery load at the very least
now i was not planning on making this one week update video but because you had so many questions
i thought like this critical mask so if you keep commenting below if you have more questions
let me know down if you want me to render specific things i can try to do that if we get another
critical mass i may just upload another one or maybe we do just do one of these short videos
these vertical things we'll see but there's certainly more coming on this channel can't
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and my first reaction to it and all the retina tests that i've been referencing
check the video out right here and as always thanks so much for watching have a good morning
have a good night whenever and wherever you are around this beautiful planet bye bye