okay so i've just picked up a base model
m1 ultra mac studio so this is the
version with 64 gigabytes of ram and the
48 core gpu now i'm going to be doing a
ton of testing on this device over the
next few days in this particular video
i'm just going to have a quick look at
editing and how exactly this particular
machine and the m1 ultra chip might
impact your editing workflow so let's
start off with some davinci resolve and
we're going to look at a multi-cam
timeline now here's the footage that i'm
going to be loading into this timeline
you can see all the different cameras
there so black magic pocket cinema 6k
gopro hero 7 and two separate sony a7
cameras the a7 mark iii and the a7s mark
iii both of them shooting in 4k 25 fps
x abcs codec and the a7 s3 is shooting
at a 140 m bit rate at 4 2 to 10 bit now
this is usually a very difficult codec
to play back
on your computer so we're going to see
how this m1 ultra chip can handle that
and quick note on that particular codec
and bitrate you actually can't shoot
that on a normal sd card you have to go
out and purchase a special card just for
the camera to be able to record it now i
am using davinci resolve in this
particular video i usually would use
final cut pro for my videos but i think
davinci resolve is a good overall
program and it's also easily comparable
to windows so if you are on a windows
computer this should give you a good
idea of maybe how the performance might
differ and also don't forget guys
davinci resolve can take full advantage
and it's fully optimized for the media
engine and the video encode and decoders
built into apple silicon chips so here
is the multi-cam timeline that i've set
up now it is 20 minutes in length as you
can see
we've got four different streams of 4k
footage this is the gopro this is the
sony a7 mark iii this is the sony a7s
mark iii and then the black magic pocket
cinema camera 6k shooting in prores 422
now this particular timeline is in 4k as
you can see i have it set to 4k also 25
fps i do have some color correction
applied to these clips i'll just jump in
there nothing too crazy just some curves
and some basic color wheels and if we
jump back to the timeline
i have everything up here switched off
so i'm not using any kind of optimized
media i'm not using proxies in this
video everything you see here is
straight out of the camera they haven't
been transcoded either
so i've got proxy mode set to off uh
render cache is none and fusion memory
catch is off we will check out some
fusion in just a second so if we jump
down to the timeline and we make sure
we're in multicam view which we are and
i hit play you can see immediately
everything starts playing really really
nice and smooth the fps counter up there
is 25 it looks good
all the 4k streams are playing back in
real time with no issues if i come over
here and i
zoom into the timeline and i do some
scrubbing you can see we have a couple
of dropped frames but
really not that many and again guys this
is all compressed 4k footage with really
hard codecs to actually playback so x
abcs for example is not the easiest
codec to playback in real time but that
is working pretty well
and again if i hit the space button and
we play straight to 25 fps no issues at
all now you may have noticed up the top
here i do have some b-roll this is again
from the sony a7s mark iii highest bit
rate 422
10-bit color and that is playing back
zero issues
as well as all of the 4k streams on the
side now scrubbing again
a little bit of a delay there but if you
sort of if you zoom in a bit and you
slow your scrubs down a tad it's working
pretty well now moving on to some fusion
i'm not going to create anything custom
on this video it's going to take too
long
here are just some fusion transitions
that i downloaded a while ago they're
pre-built
so i'm just going to drop this on and
i'm going to put it on that particular
part of the timeline and we're going to
come back we're going to play and as you
can see that's working perfectly fine
with no issues if i zoom in
and i scrub now remember guys this is
really really compressed h264 footage
that's playing back in real time
with zero issues so let me remove that
one and let's find
a little bit more complicated
fusion transition drag that on
okay so that one is a little bit less
smooth
we can still scrub relatively easily but
when it comes to real-time playback
you're still going to get a couple of
dropped frames but that is better than
the intel i9 12900k pc that i've been
testing against this particular machine
that machine can't do that this does
seem to be doing a pretty good job now
one of the reasons why this is playing
back so well is because of all of those
extra video encoders and decoders built
into the m1 ultra chip now all of this
footage is either prores or h264 which
means it's going to play back really
really well so how about some 8k footage
we'll take a look at that next okay so
here we have some 8k red raw footage
from a red camera now all this footage
is actually downloaded from the red
website itself and i did that because if
you guys want to do this testing on your
own machine and see maybe how it can
compare you can um so i've made a
timeline here very very simple timeline
some minor color correction applied
nothing too crazy you might not be able
to see that
on the camera and again i'm going to
jump down to the timeline we're going to
play this back in 4k 24 fps first of all
and we'll see what we get
all right so we can see we're stuttering
a little bit we're seeing that red fps
indicator if i skip forward it's a
little bit jumpy at the start but it
does get relatively smooth once the clip
has a second or two to start playing
again guys this has not been transcoded
there's no proxies or anything like that
it's just straight out of a red camera
and it seems to be playing back okay now
if we do some scrubbing here on this
shark scene apologies if any of you guys
are afraid of sharks didn't mean to
choose this clip on purpose
that's playing back okay
with the biker scene some dropped frames
here or there but um
i could probably edit this if i really
had to
uh the
monkey scene that's playing back okay
now i don't think a lot of people are
going to be doing an 8k raw timeline
like this at the very least you're
probably going to be transcoding it or
using proxies
or you will just be using 4k like i
think most people do i think only a
small percentage of people
have full 8k raw timelines but i think
for this it's pretty usable so if i just
jump in here and i change the
timeline resolution to 1080p
and we click save
and i'll just get rid of that second one
okay that's playing back pretty well
so you can see that's much more
responsive switching between
all these different clips and playing in
real time
okay for this last test i'm back to the
sony a7s mark iii and i have some 120
fps 4k footage from the camera that i'm
just going to drop onto the timeline
here and we're just going to try and
play it back and see what kind of fps we
can get so if i just hit the space bar
here
we are getting very very close to the
120 you can see it's a little bit choppy
there
but again this is 120 fps playing back
in real time
if we do some scrubbing here and i zoom
in
definitely getting some dropped frames
zoom in a bit more
but that is playing back pretty well now
don't forget this is playing back in 4k
so you would probably switch that
timeline down and that is working pretty
well
all right let's just do something crazy
and let's actually come here and we're
going to change the clip speed so let's
double this clip speed to 200 percent
now why would you do this i don't know
maybe you'd be doing some kind of time
lapse or something like that there are
better ways of doing it this is really
just to stress test the m1 ultra chip so
if i play this back at 200 percent
that is playing without any issues
it seems even smoother than it was
before
i'll zoom out and go to a different part
here
some more movement
uh we are getting some dropped frames as
you can see we're getting that red sort
of warning light a little bit here but
other than that it's looking pretty good
okay so let's just get out of that for
now and i am going to be doing a lot of
render tests on all of these different
timelines you've just seen i will leave
that for a separate video i just want to
give you guys a brief idea of what the
editing experience is like in case
you're on the fence right now and you
want to pick it up asap the m1 ultra
version because last time i checked
they're sold out for i think about two
months at this stage so don't worry guys
more videos are coming if you're still
on the fence but apart from that i'll
catch you in the next one