holy [ __ ] like this caught me by surprise just took five minutes and
21 seconds for the exact same thing that took one hour and 51 minutes
on my old device this just justified the whole 3500 dollars
okay okay okay i just spent a pretty dime on a new macbook which will save me time
save the planet definitely not save any money
this video is sponsored by motion vfx so for those of you who are new to this channel first of all
hi i'm joey helms filmmaker photographer at night and during the day i'm a creative director i'm
mostly shooting okay mostly shooting documentary travel and commercial content all my red cameras
sony and drones and i do that usually in the wild run and gunning and then i talk about it
on this channel where is my knife i need a knife luckily i'm shooting in the kitchen so there's
knives everywhere and yeah i've been editing on a 2018 i7 macbook pro oh you don't even
need a knife love apple's packaging and an imac a 2015 imac and honestly on more complex edits and
tasks they were crapping out on me costing me time and nerves so it was time
you gotta love that smell and in this video we will have a real world look at this machine
render some stuff in final cut pro premiere pro and resolve and i will have my live reaction to
this block of metal from a filmmaker's perspective so let's see how it goes did you hear the sound
all right so let's first address what apple did here and with its design they went in a different
direction from what they usually do first of all they listened to the community and brought back
fan favorites that they themselves killed off like the hdmi port the sd card reader and my favorite
the maxsafe with its satisfying clicking sound the cord is now braided which i absolutely dig though
the cable itself is a little short in my opinion hopefully you can buy a longer one at some point
i would definitely get it secondly they went with function over form which is definitely not normal
for apple it is quite a bit chunkier than the previous models and while if you look at the specs
it doesn't appear that much thicker in reality it is it is certainly you see the screen itself
is thicker and the design itself is more squared off making it feel much medium i guess it's to put
all the power in there while still maintaining a good airflow and yeah the keyboard was overhauled
it is now set in this black setting the touch bar is gone i'm not someone who is like the touch
bar is the world of the devil i had not a strong positive or negative feeling about it i think it
was under leverage in most cases so barely used it so i'm fine with it being gone but the keys
are also deeper i noticed it when i was typing though it is not as mechanic as they advertised it
this time around apple actually gives you many more customization options and the biggest one you
possibly have to make is if you want to go with the m1 pro or the more powerful m1 max ship which
is the first generation of apple's own silicon now i think most people will be fine with the m1 pro
even if you have heavier grades and effects on it and for the first time ever you can get all
these configurations in both the 16-inch model but also in the smaller 14-inch model now the question
is really do you want a bigger screen and longer battery life because this one is definitely longer
or do you want a smaller device that is lighter and also cost 200 less the choice
is absolutely yours but there is an asterix apparently only on the 16 inch m1 max models
you can access the high power mode which allows you to get extra performance out of it
but no one has really talked about it from apple's side if anyone has the 14 inch m1
max model let us know down in the comments below if you can access the high power mode
who knows it now boasts a hdr screen with 120 hertz variable refresh rate and a sustained
brightness of a thousand this which i think is legitimate for video editing and you may not
even need a secondary video editing monitor if you don't have one around you more than fine with this
thing and it actually makes me think if i should switch over to a hdr workflow for my youtube
videos overall the screen got noticeably larger yes it has a notch with a 1080p camera in it also
they upgraded the already great speaker system and that is something that really stood out to me that
was noticeable burn imperial will outpost a name only when was the last time they even contacted us
a decade ago they won't defend us we need to do it ourselves easy you have to possibly experience it
yourself but it also supports spatial audio which i really got to love from my airpods pro now
enough of the spec and design talk let's dive into what we're really here for and damn cure is about
and that's the performance for video editing and i should say i've not tried it yet myself
i've been waiting for this to have a genuine reaction on tape so what are we waiting for
as some of you may know i've been editing in final cut pro for the past six years and macbooks are
and will always be optimized and perform best with apple's own software but we will also touch
on premiere pro and resolve now one thing that really bugged me with my old laptop and hampered
my motivation was how poorly it played back clips in my nle especially when it comes to different
cameras different heavier codecs and it's just not it's just not fun and the unified gpu and
cpu design of the m1 max and the m1 pro promises really an upgrade in performance that i really
want to see now in real life so we're looking here now at a clip from the red v raptor it's
an 8k red code raw codec clip and r3d file and i added two luts to it and also a layer of grain so
now as we are hovering over here already it looks very smooth and if i'm just gonna hit play now
i don't think it skips a frame it's incredibly smooth and mind you i'm screen recording and also
am in the high quality mode here high quality better quality versus better performance
so awesome this is certainly something that makes editing so much more fun now next let's look at a
sony alpha 1 8k clip i'm just going to hit play here and it is running
buttery smooth even with the grade and the grain on top of it now the ultimate test will be r5
footage canon r5 footage is notoriously terrible if this plays back smoothly then i would be
highly surprised drumroll let's see where there's some movement here okay here we go
it is it is choppy you see it again it's not pre-rendered r5 footage it must be the codec
it's definitely struggling now lastly let's also look at some
red komodo footage because that's what i'm editing most with and shooting with
and if the 8k red raptor footage works fine i'm not surprised that this one just goes
smoothly as well like but i like was already worth it on that note really quick thank you to
manny peter and brandon for sending me over some clips from different cameras so that we can test
them here but what if we throw them all together because apple is boasting that you can play back
seven prores 8k clips without any hiccups thanks to their prores encoding and decoding
media unit that is within this ship i mean this is a real test if this plays back nicely
i'll be surprised because especially because it has r5 footage in it let's see how it plays back
oh boy okay yeah you see you see it's choppy okay we hit the max if we have seven clips of
random footage now i'm curious if i take out the r5 footage because that could be our culprit here
here we go without the r5 footage it everything plays back smoothly interesting
cars that are always draining on your gpu are graphic elements that i happen to love to use
on my videos and one thing that was particularly taxing on my i7 2018 macbook pro are 3d tracking
and 3d elements for effects i've been using the motion vfx plugins for years now and they were
even featured in the launch event of this very laptop and the more stoked i am that there is
the sponsor of this video today and let us try the m tracker 3d to push this laptop a little
to its boundaries let's see this is a clip of the icelandic volcano [ __ ] that's yet always
fun to say first we just add here this effect the m tracker 3d then we just click here on track and
it runs its course and on my i7 macbook pro this took a while and i can see already here although
we're looking at a over 20 second long clip it is definitely much faster once it is tracked we
select what element we want to put into our scene i just for illustrative purposes i'm gonna take
a 3d text here now we need to just copy the track here from our clip to the text element and then we
just have to position and pick the location of our 3d element where we want to anchor it i'm going to
put it here on this side of the mountain because we nicely see it throughout okay we see like we
just need to adjust the rotation as well a little bit you need to always look at it in in different
positions in the 3d space so that it accurately reflects where you want it to be positioned and
voila we have a beautiful 3d animation of the fagradz field name tag if you are a final cut
pro editor i totally recommend checking out the motion bfx plugins with a link in the description
below i'm not just saying this because they're sponsoring this video but i truly believe in their
software i've been using it for years and really dig it okay i'm just gonna throw in a pizza real
quick while i'm still adding i'm getting really hungry really dig the spinach pizza not sponsored
now one bottleneck that we all encountered let's face it is the export and rendering time
so i thought what if i take all these clips that i now have like the b raptor stuff the r5 the a1
my komodo clips some sony clips from the drones and gopro and scale it up to 8k where where needed
and create this 5 minute long 8k clip which has two layers of luts on it and a grain
and see how long it will take to export now i did this already on my 2018 i7 macbook pro and it took
an unbelievable 1 hour and 50 minutes or 51 minutes to export this is absolutely insane and
with its ship design and dedicated meteor and prores encoders uh i hope and it promises that the
m1 max should be significantly faster the question is now how much faster so now let's export this
five minutes later holy [ __ ] like this caught me by surprise i was just checking on my pizza but
it like i don't know if you see this but let me get around here it just finished the export
and it just took 5 minutes and 21 seconds for the exact same thing that took 1 hour and 51 minutes
on my old device it took 5 minutes and 21 seconds this is this is absolutely
bonkers this is why this is why i got this this is like this just justified the whole three
thousand five hundred dollars for me because if i can edit and export that much faster now
expect many more videos on my youtube channel
all right i need to calm down a little bit but let's check out some 8k red raptor
footage and see how it compares on resolve and premiere and final cut both on my old device
as well as on my new one so i'm gonna render these real quick here so i haven't done this yet and see
how much faster that is because like if this thing just took five minutes they will be done here in
seconds all right time is running this is a 30 second long r3d file um with again like two
nuts on it and grain and here we go 47 seconds this whole shebang took 47 seconds which on
my old laptop took 15 minutes and 22 seconds i mean this old laptop is not specked out
completely but this is a stark difference like in the rendering this is blazing fast now up
so when you live downtown now obviously macbooks and final cut are supposed
to run together very well and now i'm curious how the very same clip compares
in its rendering time on resolve and premiere pro alright now we're here in premiere let's
see how smooth the playback within premiere is and yep no problem we wrapped the footage 8k
with great and graining it's no problem playing back all right let's see how long it takes to
export this clip in 8k same conditions here as for final cut pro and let's go my pizza is ready so
oh the fans kicked in so so people have always wondered like when at what point the fans kick
in video is successfully exported boom all right so it took three minutes 55 seconds to export it
on premiere pro and for comparison it took an hour and seven minutes on my i7 macbook pro all right
my pizza is ready but i'm way too curious to figure out what's happening on davinci resolve
and how fast how much faster that is compared to my old macbook and how it also compares to
the other two booting up takes a little bit longer for sure all right now we are here in resolve and
honestly the playback here seems to be very choppy like not fluid at all so i don't know if that's
something i'm not a regular resolve user so i don't know if there's any way i can fix it but
let's start the render and see how long it will take to get this one out many many minutes later
now finally resolve also decided to complete the render within actually 28 minutes and 35 seconds
which is significantly longer than what we've seen in premier and final cut hey future me
here who got a little bit suspicious about the performance of resolve on these machines
and so i digged around a little bit and tried some things out and turns out that the grain the
native grain within resolve was the culprit that was bugging down both machines so i re-ran the
render test and turns out my old i7 macbook pro took 17 24 minutes for that 8k clip and the m1 max
blazed through in three minutes 52 seconds just slightly faster than premiere so all of
you resolve users and i know there's a bunch of you editing and grading in the davinci you
can be all relieved it plays back smoothly the render times are equivalent to premiere pro so
let's go back to the studio well but let's throw up the times here just for comparison you see
how crazy fast it is now in final cut pro it's absolutely amazing and i think it matches up also
very much on premiere pro it's super fast
now i hope these little real world tests gave you a little bit of an
idea of the performance of this machine and if it's a good fit for you as a filmmaker
i personally think so but you have to address one aspect of it and that's the price
they're expensive they are very expensive i paid for mine the base m1 max model 3500
3499 and that's before tax never in my life have i been that excited about a laptop but also never in
my life have i paid that much for a computer this investment makes sense if you are video editing on
a daily basis personally i think if you're just occasionally video editing the 13-inch m1 model
from last year is a much better deal it clocks in at i think 1399 dollars and you will be happy
you will get really good performance thanks to these new m1 ships now in the tech world this is
my personal pov that usually you can skip a generation even if you're working at the pro level
but this laptop if you compare it to the previous 16 inch macbook pro is really a step up for
me this means truly buying time because if i can edit faster and more efficiently i have time to do
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because possibly i'm more efficient in future 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