Hey, everyone, Kelsey, here and welcome back to Gal today, I have the MacBook Pro
M1 Max, brand new, in front of me, unopened, I haven't even tested it yet.
This video is going to be a testing video to see
if it's worth the upgrade, so I will be testing playback speed.
I'll be testing rendering, encoding for 4K
and 8k footage, as well as testing different plug ins.
So for example, if you've ever used flicker free or noise remover,
I'm really curious to see how the M1 chip handles those plug ins.
And a lot of you guys asked me to test motion graphics templates,
mogrt files and to their sponsor, which is perfect, is Envato Elements.
And I use a ton of mogrts from elements, so I'll be dragging and dropping those
moderates inside of the M1 MAX Premiere Pro timeline to see how they perform.
If you're interested in trying out Envato elements, you can use my link below
to get 70% off your first month.
So without further ado, let's go ahead and open this up
and start the testing.
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All right, so here we have three different laptops.
My MacBook Pro from 2017.
The M1 Macs and the Dell Precision 7550.
Its first test is with 4K footage, so the effects that I added is an eight
millimeter film frame.
A film converts film grain color filter, as well as some seamless transitions.
And to add to that, I also added sound
in all of these tracks are from Epidemic sound.
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The console panel opened up in the console will actually tell you
how many frames are being dropped
during the playback and to open up the console, just press command function f
twelve or control function f twelve on a PC.
All right, let's run the first test with the 4K playback right now.
The MacBook Pro 2017 had
485 frames dropped out of 721.
The M1 MAX had 481 dropped, which is surprising,
and the Dell had just 467.
So now let's lower the playback resolution
to a quarter, so the results at a quarter resolution.
The 2017 had 357 frames dropped.
M1 MAX had just 14 frames dropped in.
The Dell had zero.
So now let's go into render speed to actually rendering out all of the effects.
Let's see how long it takes on each different computer.
The MacBook Pro
2017 took 188 seconds.
The M1 Macs took 60 seconds and the Dell
took 114 seconds.
So as you see, the M1 MAX is the winner here.
But now let's go on to eight key footage.
So here inside my timeline, I have this footage from Mac filmmakers
archive footage.
My cameras don't shoot an AK, so I use some of his footage
and he made it available to everybody to use.
If you give a credit, if I turn off the visibility
of the adjustment layer, you can see that the color grade is gone.
It's ungraded.
What I put on the adjustment layer is a basic input load.
So if I go to basic correction, you can see that
I have the Canon C log 2 to Rec 706.
This is a free light.
And if you use a different camera profile, I have a bunch of the free lots
that you can download inside of my description box just down below.
So I wanted to be able
to add an adjustment layer to really show a realistic playback.
If you're going to be working with the Dot serum profile, the Canon Raw Light,
so let's see the playback speed at full resolution on all three devices.
This is 30 seconds of footage, and let's start the test now.
The 2017 MacBook Pro really struggled here.
It had a playback of 899 dropped frames out of 901.
And literally, when I was watching it back with the eight,
it was stuck on the first frame during the entire playback.
I couldn't even play. It was almost like it was frozen.
The M1 Macs, however, had 814
frames dropped, but you could see it playing back and it was working.
It's still not great because most of the frames were being dropped and the Dell.
I couldn't even finish it because it was just
stuttering back and forth, so it really struggled.
So if you need to edit 8kt.
CRM files in your timeline, the 2017 MacBook Pro isn't going to cut it.
This Dell isn't going to cut it.
The M1 Macs with Flores, it's not possible for smooth playback,
but if you lower the resolution to a quarter, there's zero frames drops.
So if you're OK with editing at a quarter resolution
8k footage with a grade, it's smooth as butter.
So I did a little bit more research because I was a little bit disappointed at
why the M1 MAX couldn't playback in full res the AK footage?
Well, it turns out that it's related to the .CRM format.
If you export all of the .CRM files into a Pro
Res file, for example, it's smooth as butter.
So for example, here I have the 8K Pro ReS timeline
here with the same grade put on top, and I'm putting it back at full res.
And if I play it back on the M1 MAX it's their zero frames drop.
So it's just about the file format.
So this is why I recommend, if you can, in your camera
shooting in a Pro Res codec, if you're going to be editing on M1 Macs.
But if you cannot shoot in Pro ReS, what you can do is you can use Adobe
Media Encoder and drag all of the .CRM and export it as Pro Rez.
And with the Video Effects tab, you can apply an input LUT.
So that way you can export it as Rec 709 already,
and you can import it into your timeline and it's good to go.
All right, so the next test is motion graphics templates.
No great files.
I specifically chose a typography motion graphics template
that has a lot of effects late on it.
Usually, these animated typography is take a long time to render,
so the pack that I got it from was from Envato Elements.
Remember, as I said in the beginning, if you're interested in elements,
you can get 70% off your first month and you can literally download
as much as you want.
And there's a ton of MOGRT packs there.
So the one that I'm using is called typography 99.
So I'm going to drag and drop this into the timeline
and select keep existing settings.
And then I need to scale it to frame because right now
it's scaled at ten ADP, which is a lower resolution.
So I'm going to type in the resolution here 3840,
which is the width and 2160, which is the height.
So that's the Ultra HD resolution.
So now I can go in and make some edits.
You can update the colors if you want to.
I'm just going to update the text to Premiere go.
There we go. And now let's render it out.
See which one is the fastest.
To render a
four second moderate on the 2017 MacBook Pro,
it took 178 seconds on the M1 Macs.
It took 52 seconds and on the Dell
Precision, it took 88 seconds.
If you like to use Mozart's, the M1 Macs in the MOGRT performance is fantastic.
So before we go into the next test with the plug ins, I want to show you
my desk setup with my 40 inch Dell curved monitor.
And what's really cool is
they just came out with an update to the Dell display manager.
And if you open it up, you can change the color mode
easier frame so you can easily arrange your windows.
If I click on a window, I can put it into one of these frames,
so I'm going to put it in the vertical frame here.
Now I have a split screen between after effects and Premiere Pro.
If you're interested in trying out this Dell monitor, I put a link
just down below, but you can check it out from being a photo or Amazon.
The next test is warp stabilization,
so to apply Warp Stabilizer, just go to effects and search for WARP.
And then you'll find Warp Stabilizer underneath the story.
Drag and drop it onto the clip and then we'll analyze the background,
and then it will stabilize the clip.
So the analysis time is what we're looking at here.
So let's apply it to all three different computers,
and let's look at the analysis time.
So the MacBook Pro 2017 took 7.78
seconds for the M1 MAX It took 3.8
seconds for the Dell with 6.6 seconds.
So just by looking at the results, you can see the M1 Macs is far superior.
So if you end up using WARP Stabilizer a lot, you should go with the M1 Macs.
Now, let's move on to the next effect the Flickr fixer. Or
if you've
ever shot any video where there's a light in the background and it's flickering,
you can use a plug in by BORIS FX ecalled Flicker Fixer.
To apply it to your footage, you can go to effects and search
for a flicker fixer after you've installed base effects continuum.
So let's go ahead and drag this onto our cliff
because the flicker kind of affects the entire frame.
I'm going to go down and change it from
frame analysis to temporal smooth YCC and then underneath temporal smoothing,
I'm going to smoothing it out a little bit
more and increase the maximum frames to five.
So if we try to play this back, it's going to be hard to see the result
because there's a
lot of frames being dropped as we do that, so we need to render it out.
And this is what I'm curious about
which computer performs the best with the flicker fixer.
So let's hit, return and enter on each device
and let's see who performs the best.
The MacBook Pro 2017 took 178 seconds
and the M1 MAX just took 62 seconds
and the Dell 152 seconds.
While the M1 Macs continues to dominate,
the next test is inside of After Effects, the Roto Brush tool.
So here inside of after effects, I have this breakdancer clip here,
and all I'm going to do is use the rotor brush tool to rotoscoping him out.
And what I'm curious to test is the speed of the analysis of actually
rendering out the entire roto because that various computer is a computer.
So to do the rotoscoping, you're going to double click on the clip
and then from the Layer tab, you can click on the Roto Brush tool.
So I'm just going to quickly select the subject to get the
Roto outline around him, and we will see which one renders the fastest.
one minute and 57 seconds
for the 2017 MacBook Pro, 35 seconds
for M1 Macs and a Record-Breaking,
15 seconds on the Dell, which was very surprising.
So those are all the essential tests that I did on all the machines to confirm
that the M1 Macs is living up to all the hype that is around this new MacBook Pro.
I really think that this is the future of editing.
Another question I got from you was the difference
between the M1 Pro chip in the M1 MAX chip.
I was not able to get my hands on an M1 Pro chip tester unit,
but I was able to sit down with Apple and they told me the difference between them.
The M1 Pro chip in the M1 MaX chip While they have the same
CPU performance, the M1 MAX has two times the GPU performance,
so it's going to be faster.
And secondly, the M1 Pro can only go up to 32 gigabytes of RAM.
So the M1 MAX, you can already get more lanes
in your highway with more RAM with the 64 gigabyte option.
So if you're a multitasker and you like to have multiple programs
open, such as Photoshop after effects Premiere Pro, other
creative tools open all at the same time while you're doing emails.
The M1 MAX is going to have a far greater performance for you,
but that's all for today's video.
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If you have any other questions about my experience editing with M1 Macs,
and I'd be happy to respond.
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