- All right, so today we're gonna be talking about
this MacBook Air with the M1 processor
that I bought for $949.
But there's three things that we want to talk
about before we get into that.
One, who can kick higher?
Dylan or Sam?
I pointed at the wrong pers- sorry. (laughs)
3, 2, 1. Go!
(Kicking)
That was really close.
We have to look at the playback on that one.
Also, this is a new house.
It's a fixer upper.
It's work in progress, all right.
But it'll, it'll get there.
And finally, this video is sponsored by Storyblocks.
Right now, with all our sponsored videos,
we wanted to have a way to give back to the audience, right?
So we do giveaways with gear and all that stuff. Right?
But I think I'm gonna stop that.
And instead, we're gonna give budget
to people in the audience to shoot their project.
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- Yeah. That's a great idea.
- Like yesterday over coffee,
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We're gonna be shooting it
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We're gonna try to edit it on this MacBook Air,
and then we'll report back
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- All right.
So I just finished editing the segment on the air
and I knew this was gonna be fast,
but it's really fast.
When I first installed Adobe premier on here,
it gave me a few notifications saying this isn't
fully compatible yet,
but there is a beta version of Premiere
which, just like it sounds, it's still in beta.
But it works much more effectively with the M1 processor.
Now I'm sure it's all gonna be combined
into one soon enough,
so this won't be an issue at all.
But I did find myself having to switch back and forth.
Now the beta ran much faster.
It was shockingly smooth for a sub $1,000 computer.
I was really, really impressed with what kind
of performance I was seeing out of it.
But occasionally I would have to switch back
to the original Premiere
because I did shoot some of this footage
in B-roll with the black magic pocket cinema camera.
And that specific codec requires a free plugin
from black magic site.
But for whatever reason,
it wasn't working with Premiere's beta.
So right now I have the air hooked up
to my monitor with HDMI.
And generally when I'm editing
I usually have one or two other tabs open.
I keep it to a minimum.
But one, I like to usually have a note pad open
just so I can punch in some notes.
Or also have some music playing in the background.
And whenever I hear something that works
with whatever I'm editing, I go "ooh"
let me go ahead and save that.
So I definitely like to have a few things operating at once.
Now, let's go ahead and start
with the footage from the area Alexa classic.
It's only 2K, but it is ProRes 4444.
Which is a pretty big file.
It's a very powerful file.
But they tend to be pretty easy to edit.
I had it on full res.
I slapped a lot on there.
I had music tracks.
I had a title up top.
So I was manipulating it more than just the simple playback.
You could actually do a lot of professional work
as long as you can edit ProRes, no problem.
And being able to apply the luts
and add some audio tracks and all
that stuff on top of it.
While still getting a full res playback.
That's awesome.
I'm just gonna go ahead and show you what it
looks like to scrub through this at full res.
Pretty good, right?
It probably slowed down the most
with the Canon C70 on the XF-AVC 422 10-bit.
Now here's the thing,
it is definitely doable,
but there's just enough delay after each action
to where I started getting a bit frustrated.
Now I'm not sure if this is a hardware limitation
or just because this format hasn't been optimized.
But the A7S3's 4K all-I codec
is definitely a bit smoother.
It's not 100% there
but this, I actually have no problem working with.
I would say if you're the type that's constantly shooting
at the high res 4K settings,
then this is definitely the threshold
that you want to go into a bigger setup.
But again, this is in 4K.
Now the last couple of walks on my second channel,
I've been editing entirely on this MacBook Air.
And that I shoot almost all in HD.
A lot of the times I completely forgot which computer
I was even editing on.
Especially after I hooked it up to the external display.
'Cause it just blasted through it.
I was prepared to be really frustrated making this video
because I did not think it would be able to keep
up with the pace that I would want it to go at.
But he really impressed me.
I've also been editing some multi-track stuff.
And again, I shoot all my stuff in log.
So I like to apply a lot to it.
And I don't like to transcode or make proxies.
I like to just cut it raw
and then render if I can get away with it.
And I would start off by editing in 4 res.
And maybe once I put so much load onto it,
it- it starts to slow down a little bit.
Then at that point I might drop it a half
or maybe a quarter.
But I've never gotten to a point where I was so frustrated
I was like, ugh, this computer isn't fast enough.
Honestly, the biggest limitation
of this thing has probably been the hard drive space.
Oh crap. I just realized I'm running late.
They're installing internet at the new place.
Fiber, thousand megabits per sec- okay. All right.
Let's- let's, let's go over there.
(upbeat music)
All right.
Got a little bit of work done, and good news!
I got fiber hooked up at the new place.
So check out those internet speeds.
Oh yeah!
And now, my camera's saying I only have
three minutes of battery left,
so I kind of have to hurry.
And oh- oh my gosh, what is- what is on my face?
And another thing I thought was interesting is
how good the reviews are on this laptop.
I mean, B&H, five stars.
Amazon, five stars.
Not four and a half stars.
Five stars!
With 5,304 ratings!
Long battery life.
One charge will last all day,
16 hours personally tested.
Yeah. It lasts forever until you start editing of course.
Speed, quiet, light and portable.
High resolution and bright display.
Yeah, these are all true.
No fan, it's super quiet.
And also, I noticed that
after heavy video editing and rendering,
I can still put it on my lap and it's not hot.
The other MacBooks I have, once you render something
you put it on your lap and it's hot.
But this, just gets kind of warm.
So I really am kind of blown away
at how energy efficient it is, but yet how powerful it is.
And it's just not creating much heat.
There's no fan, how does this work?
He does say he doesn't like that
the keyboard is mediocre.
Wait I personally don't understa-
I mean like, all keyboards or keyboards to me
I- I- I don't know.
Most important thing for me personally
at least is where the computer sits
on my pissed-off-o meter when I'm editing.
So this is the face that I usually make when
the computer is actually really good.
Yeah. So if that's the only face I'm making,
that's great.
So we're gonna put that at a pretty dang fast computer.
As we make our way down
we enter the uncontrollable cussing territory
and then into the table slam, table flip
and then eventually just WWE wrestling
like elbow drop snap.
Good news is I didn't have to drop kick this
'cause it actually performed really, really well.
I mean, honestly, it felt just as fast
as the MacBook Pro 16
when I was running the beta.
No way.
The M1 just rendered this video out faster than the 16.
What is going on right now?
Now this is definitely case by case.
There are times where the 16 inch smokes the air.
I think it has to do a lot
with what's optimized and what's not.
But still a $949 laptop has no business being this fast.
Honestly, when the 16 inch M1 version comes out, oh my gosh
I'm getting that so fast 'cause this is already fast.
What's the MacBook Pro 16 inch gonna be like.
I heard we might get an SD card slot back
and a HDMI built in.
Aw man, if an SD card is built in.
Ha. Ha.
I hate dongles man.
This gets me really excited for a few reasons.
I mean, cameras have obviously been dropping
in price over the last couple of years.
But this is kind of like the last hurdle
to be able to say, hey,
anyone can get a decent camera and edit it
like, with a pretty decent system.
And of course, Final Cut and DaVinci
I hear works even better with this new system.
Honestly, if this was my only editing system
I'd make it work.
The internal hard drive space
at 256 gigs was pretty limiting.
But, you know, with an external SSD should be fine.
Like, it's really not bad.
Ooh. But back to the exciting stuff.
I want to Greenlight your projects.
And right now since we don't have any pitches
to us just yet.
We're gonna go ahead and fund $1,500 to Dylan and Sam.
They're gonna split that.
And they're gonna go ahead and make a project.
- So you think you're gonna do a little short film.
- Yeah, I'm gonna do a romantic comedy.
- Yeah?
- It's called bro.
- Bro. All right.
You can use the Blackmagic 6K Pro for that.
When you're done with that,
we can ship that Blackmagic camera around.
So if you guys are watching
and you don't have the right camera to shoot it on,
we can lend you cameras like the Blackmagic for a week.
But let us know if, you know, being able to borrow gear
for a week or two, if that would help
with the process of making it, that would be cool.
Cause we'd be down to do that.
- All right. So we are here in the first scene of bro.
- [Behind The Camera] You know you're only splitting
a $1,500 budget.
- I thought it was $15,000.
- [Behind The Camera] Uh, No, it's $1,500.
Maybe eventually $15,000.
But uh, yeah, I think you went a little bit
over budget already.
- (whispers) Goddammit.
Dylan, can you tell him to shut it down?
- (wind drowns out speaker) to shut it down. (laughing)
- Sam and Dylan are both working on their projects
as we speak.
So Greenlight project number one and number two
are already in motion.
Excited to see your guys's.
You could be number three, four, five, six.
I- We keep going.
This is still more of a concept.
So let's start off with the next five sponsored videos.
Each one I will fund
at least a minimum of $1,000 for an idea.
Now, if you want to enter your idea, you just
fill out this Google form thing that I'm gonna
throw down in the description.
It's just gonna ask you a few basic questions.
And again, I'm still trying to figure out
what I need to do to get the system set up
to do it legally and all that.
So we're gonna be limited
on who can enter at least for the first five.
And then we'll take a look at how it went
and then hopefully we can give more access
to everybody and maybe bigger budgets and all that stuff.
I need a little bit of time to talk
to lawyers or I don't know all that stuff.
I- I don't know.
If you're a lawyer that knows this kind of stuff.
Please let me know, give me some advice here.
Like I want to fund your guys' projects.
I just don't want to get in trouble for this.
So basically you fill out the form.
Everyone- I'll announce the video.
And technically I heard that I'm not allowed to say
oh yeah, this is a giveaway or anything.
I'm supposed to say, it's a-
it's a gift that I'm gonna give.
And it just happens to land
every time I get a sponsor. (laughing)
So the sponsors are absolutely not tied to it.
So, you know, you may have noticed
that the few times I have to say
like Canon is not associated with this giveaway.
Because they make me put that legal descrip-
I don't know, legal stuff, right?
While we're starting off, you have to be 18
or over and live in the US for tax reasons.
Like I want to eventually open this up to everybody
so that anywhere in the world you are, we can pay you.
But again, that's, that comes down to like accounting
and all that- things are just complicated, man.
I wish I could just like, be like, oh, this is a fun idea.
Let's do it.
But unfortunately the world has to make things complicated.
It could be a short film or it could be a travel video.
Or it could- it could be whatev-
it could be like a litt- little Instagram video.
I don't really care what it is.
But if you have a passion for creating something,
I want to make that possible.
I'm definitely gonna also do a better job
about announcing who we're funding and all that stuff
so that you guys can also be a part of, you know
seeing the ideas come to life.
And I didn't realize how important it was
for me to actually announce who won
because turns out a lot of people don't believe
that the giveaways I've been doing are real.
But no, we've given away
over a hundred things on the channel.
I was going through some old videos
and I saw that this was like the top comment.
So apparently a lot
of people don't believe that my giveaways are real.
No, they're 100% legit.
Sam and I have this Google drive here where we keep
track of you know, who won the Canon 80D.
Who won the edit crone.
Who won, you know, 32 inch LG monitor, DGI, drone.
All this stuff we keep track of on here.
I just do a terrible job
of announcing it, so sorry about that.
Here are some of the winners for the last six months
on the Mavic Mini 2, it's a 360 one R
EOS RP.
Osmo pocket.
Insta 360 One X2.
Five people won a Godox MS30.
An iPhone. Anamorphic lenses. Edelkrone slider.
Few people won an Insta360 GO 2. DJI FPV drone.
Mavic 2. DJI Pocket 2. Accsoon. Sain I2S pr-
like people win these things,
and they get delivered.
We just don't really follow up very often.
Now let's say we select your project.
We're gonna give you a chunk of it up front
but we're not gonna give you all
of it until you finish the video.
That's gonna be incentive for you to finish the video.
It's too easy to be excited
about a video and then not follow through with it.
But having that goal
at the tail end is really gonna push you through any sort
of hurdles that you go and you're gonna finish and render.
And that's what I want, is I want you to not be stuck
on an idea or stuck on a video.
I want you to push through with it.
So that's gonna be incentive
for you guys to finish the video.
And then we'll kind of start up
like a community incubator channel where
you know, I need names for it.
Help me think of a name for that channel.
But it'll basically be like a showcase
of all the projects we've been able to fund.
But uploading through this new channel
will be an optional thing.
I think there's a lot
of people that will want to see, oh, what kind
of projects get created out of this Greenlight project.
It's what I'm kind of calling it right now.
But Greenlight's like when you officially
get a budget approved
for a project and then you're good to go.
So you can upload it to that channel if you want
but you don't have to, if you don't want to,
I don't know if this new incubator channel
will ever get monetized.
But if it does, I did want to figure out a way to
you know, pay some of that AdSense back to the creator.
But I- I honestly, I think that's gonna get too complicated.
So realistically what we'd probably do is if it-
it ever starts making AdSense money, then we pay it forward
to the- the future creators that we eventually green light.
So I want this to turn into a thing that feeds itself.
That would be awesome.
This is the type of thing that I've been wanting to do.
And I've been thinking
about how to make something like this happen.
So we'll see how it works out.
This might fail.
So we'll see, but guaranteed next five sponsored videos.
We're gonna at least give $1,000 each
and see where it goes.
And hopefully we can keep this going.
I eventually want our list
of projects that we funded to look
like this Google drive right here for the giveaways.
Like I want it to be huge.
I want this to be a catalyst for your guys' idea
to go out and actually go out and film it.
And I remember when I was starting out filmmaking
like I was entering contests
and I would make 500 bucks here, 1000 bucks there.
And I- it was so much motivation for me to just say,
oh, I can actually make money doing something I love.
And I would love to create that sense of possibility
and opportunity for you guys on the other side.
Cause you guys are all filmmakers.
Maybe this is a computer video.
So maybe you came here for something else.
But most of the subscribers
you're filmmakers, you're creators.
You have ideas.
Maybe you just want to do a documentary
on your family or a- anything.
I don't care what it is
but I just want to know what you want to do
and I'll want to make it possible for you to do that.
I am so freaking excited.
That is all linked
to the Google form down in the description.
I can't wait to start picking
out winners to fund your project.
And I'm just so excited to see what kind
of stuff that you guys are gonna go create.
So let's make this happen.
See ya later!
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