By now we all know the m1 max macbook pro is awesome but is it more awesome to use with
davinci resolve or final cut pro and which is faster the results surprise me so i want
to share those with you today let's start by getting the specs out of the way we're working
with a 14 inch m1 max macbook pro with 10 core cpu 64 gigabytes of ram and that 24 core gpu there's
also a two terabyte blazing fast internal drive in here but the footage we're working off today
it's on an external samsung t7 nvme ssd drive and it's a mix of current camera formats like
sony fx3 canon r5 and c200 gopro dj air 2s there's plenty of h265 10bit and even a little bit of 8k
to stress the computer out the software versions i use are davinci resolve 17.4.1 and final cut
pro 10.6 because they're both optimized to take advantage of this new m1 max hardware
and the test they're using the exact same frames and resolutions of footage in each app so that
everything is on an even playing field if someone gives you a lemon you need to make lemonade and in
our case the lemon is 10 minutes and 12 seconds of 8k 10 bit 422 h265 footage from a canon r5
it's not easy for most computers to play back so we're gonna make lemonade by transcoding to full
8k prores 422 to later debunk or validate apple's claim of playing back seven streams of 8k footage
at once on the m1 max so in resolve all we've done is apply color management to normalize the clips
and set proxy media format to original resolution with proxy media format set to prores 422 then
basically the same thing in final cut i've applied the default canon log 2 to lut to normalize the
clips and create final cut pro optimized media to create 8k prores from the ipb compressed original
camera files i started this stopwatch on my phone and kicked off the transcodes
and we're done resolve finished in 4 minutes and 34 seconds and to my
surprise final cut pro wasn't far behind at all with 4 minutes and 36 seconds
one word of caution when you make 8k prores the files are huge we went from
32 gigabytes to 130 gigabytes next let's take a look at export times of a more typical 4k
timeline to test export speeds i wanted to ensure that we have the exact same timeline
in final cut pro and resolve essentially with no proprietary specialty effects for each
app because then it wouldn't be a fair speed test i want the test to compare apples to apples get it
so this leaves us with basic logarithmic color transforms titles and a music track
first i tested the classic h.264 export i expected resolve to win this with all
the three times faster claims that i keep hearing and seeing so here we go
and we're done 18 seconds for both resolve and final cut it's a tie
i was so unsure how they could be the same so i made the timeline twice as long by copying
and pasting and then i tested by making h.264 exports again and this time with a longer timeline
35 seconds again for both software applications that wasn't a fluke
prores export for this test i'm curious if we make prores proxies and use those to export
the same prores deliverables because prores makes an excellent finished master format
also this machine it has two dedicated pros encoders built in so let's put those to use
hey quick pro tip to export in davinci resolve using the proxies you've made
check the box in the deliver page under the advanced tab for use proxy media and how
long does it take to make a prores export for a mixed codec and unrendered one minute timeline
only eight seconds in final cut and a surprising 14 seconds in resolve but wait i i thought resolve
was more optimized so then i wondered what if the titles which aren't a specific codec caused
the difference so i disabled and muted the titles in both applications and i re-ran the same test
the result was another blazing fast tie this time it took exactly six seconds in both resolve
and final cut to export a one minute video without titles so apparently titles render
out faster in final cut but i was also curious about downresing footage from 8k down to 4k
remember that 8k footage we transcoded to prores so i exported the full 10 minutes and 12 seconds
of 8k within a 4k timeline because you know who exports 8k timelines and this result surprised me
after only 2 minutes and 30 seconds final cut pro was done but resolve it kept going and going and
it didn't finish until 4 minutes and 58 seconds i learned from this that final cut pro might give
you faster performance if you have lots of titles you're scaling down clips and you need to export
as fast as possible but if you aren't down scaling a whole lot or overlaying a lot of titles then
they're basically the same another thing i learned is that most of you watching right now haven't
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even final cut pro tutorials yes i actually i think they're both pretty cool now let's check
out the claim that apple had made during their keynote about playing back seven streams of 8k
for 8k multicam i was gonna test seven angles like apple claimed
but i realized that nine looks nicer to fill out the whole multicam viewer and
my son he had 9 rubik's cubes that he wanted to solve so here we go and resolve first
check that out redonkulous so freaking good there's 9 streams of 8k prores playing like
butter at the full 24 frames per second that's just that's incredible now over in final cut
uh maybe not quite so good not bad but wait let me change one thing let's change the playback
from better quality to better performance sweet now we're in business nine 8k clips of prores
playing back at once with no stuttering at all i think it's safe to say that you're going to
have a fantastic experience by picking out either app to edit your next video and i guess it turns
out apple wasn't blowing smoke when they talked about the power that's in this laptop computer
speaking of power if you want to learn more about how the m1 max compares to an
intel mac pro workstation click this video here or if you want to learn more about how to use
resolve or final cut i've got playlists popping up on screen right now they're going to help you
and because there's so much more to learn i'll see you in the next video
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