you may have seen some videos of the new
m1 pro macbooks floating around out
there but i haven't seen any yet that go
really in depth as to the editing
capability of these machines so in this
video that's exactly what we're going to
do and we're also going to see if this
particular machine can possibly beat out
my 5 000 desktop windows editing pc with
an rtx 3080 and a ryzen 3900 x and also
64 gigabytes of ddr4 ram anyway enough
of that let's get straight into the
video starting off we have a 16 inch
base model m1 pro macbook this is just a
stock 16 gigabytes of ram 10 core cpu
and 16 core gpu which is going to be
very very interesting and i'm going to
be testing this out on davinci resolve
17 which is the most recent version so
getting straight into it guys let's open
up resolve now you'll see here i have
edited an unboxing video that was
entirely shot on my setup here and
edited on this machine we'll get to that
in just a second let's open up an
untitled project by the way in case
you're asking this is on the latest
version of mac os monterey and as you
guys can see here i have a whole
different bunch of
footage that we can actually test out on
this machine so i have four different
camera types i have a black magic pocket
cinema camera 6k i also have a gopro
which is in 4k some red 8k footage some
sony a7 mark iii 4k footage and an
absolute beast of a camera the sony a7s
mark iii in 4k so typically a lot of
this footage here is not only difficult
to edit but just to play back so what
i'm going to do is let's just start with
the nice and easy simple stuff let's get
some sony a7 mark iii 4k footage now
this is at 100 megabits per second and
i'll put up the codec and container and
everything here for you guys now so i'm
just going to open this up and i'm just
going to drag and drop all of these
clips over we are going to change the
frame rate
and then i'm just going to highlight all
go to the edit tab
and we're going to just slam that on and
as you guys can see so again guys
remember this is very compressed footage
so this typically doesn't play back very
well you can see right there we're
getting a couple of dropped frames here
and there but as we give it a few more
seconds to buffer
that's looking pretty smooth to me now
to prove to you guys that this is going
to play back well let's actually switch
the timeline resolution to 4k
now again as you guys would have seen my
previous videos especially on the m1
macbook pro this can be a little bit
difficult to play back
and as we can see there that's working
pretty well not quite 25 fps scrubbing
but we're pretty much already there and
as you can see there that's playing back
perfectly fine in real time we have the
little green tick there next to 25 fps
so that kind of footage is kind of
boring to be quite honest with you guys
let's open up something a little bit
more demanding and this time we're
actually going to bring in some sony a7s
mark 3 4k footage now again this is very
similar to the previous footage except
it's a much higher bit rate you can see
the actual specs of the footage here so
it's the sony a7s mark iii we have 4k
resolution xavc-s codec 140 megabits per
second bitrate
four two to ten bit so this is pretty
much as good as it gets for
handheld dslr cameras at least in my
opinion so again we'll just jump in here
and we will check the
timeline resolution as you can see there
we are in full 4k
and now we play this back absolutely
buttery smooth uh not having any issues
there at all this is a two minute clip
i'm playing at the moment
and if we scrub that is scrubbing
almost better than the previous sony a7
mark 3 footage i tried out so what we're
going to do now is let's slap some
stabilization onto this first two minute
clip and let's see how long it takes so
we'll come down here to stabilization
we're just going to leave it at the
default perspective settings we're going
to stabilize we're also going to bring
up
activity monitor just to have a look at
the ram and the gpu usage we're also
going to bring up the gpu history chart
here
okay so as you guys can see there we are
fully maxing out the gpu which is really
really good to see in terms of the cpu
uh we are barely using any of the cpu at
all which makes sense and i'll touch on
this a little bit later in this video
but we're seeing a massive shift from
cpu dependent tasks to gpu dependent or
heavy tasks especially when video
editing on these new macs we can see
here the ram we're only using about 10
gigabytes of ram
zero swap which is interesting because
mac os does like to use a little swap
memory and you can see there that
stabilization has just finished and that
was a two minute clip so that was very
very impressive okay so before we get
into the most interesting part of this
video let's test out some 8k footage
from a red camera so this is raw footage
uh incredibly hard to play back you guys
have seen on the m1 air and the m1 pro
last year this was very very difficult
to play back it did play back but you
generally had to drop the timeline
resolution down to about 1080p so let's
drag these clips on
let's zoom in timeline is in 4k as you
can see
and if we play back so we're getting a
little bit of stutter here uh quite a
lot actually it doesn't really seem to
be playing back
super super well
you can see there the actual fps counter
is displaying red
which isn't great but you can also see
that it is changing to green
relatively quickly once we give the
clips a little bit of time to buffer
and if we come back to the start now
and if we do some scrubbing so you can
see that the scrubbing is not smooth
we're getting quite a bit of choppiness
there but
if you really had to edit like this i
totally could it's not a massive deal
again we would just come into the
timeline resolution we would change that
down to 1080p
and now if we play this back you can see
that we're getting a much better fps
and the scrubbing is still a little bit
choppy um but it is a lot better than
playing it back in 4k okay so now that
we've tested out some different types of
footage if you guys want to see any
other different types of footage such as
that gopro footage i have let me know
down in the comments section below
alright let's get into the juicy part of
this video let me just open this project
up first of all okay so like i mentioned
at the start of this video i've already
fully edited a video on this mac now
again this is the base model 16 inch m1
pro macbook pro
really weird name apple i couldn't just
call it m1x anyway i digress let's check
out this timeline because it's very very
interesting and this is what i typically
edit on this channel if you've seen my
previous videos so this is a triple
stacked timeline as you can see here we
have three layers of footage okay so the
footage you're seeing on the very first
level of the timeline is from the sony
a7s mark iii that's handheld by someone
off to my right in this video so steady
shot on all settings and bitrate etc set
to the max and as you guys know from
this type of footage it's very very
heavily compressed which means it
doesn't play back very well at all on
most computers but as you guys can see
here
we are playing this back perfectly fine
so if we skip to that sony a7s mark iii
footage playing back perfectly fine
again
this is in 4k timeline resolution i
never edit in 4k only ever edit in 1080p
and if we now play this footage back you
can see works perfectly fine the fps
counter is green if i scrub this that
works totally fine as well by the way
guys i do have color correction applied
to all of these clips i don't personally
use luts in my footage i like to sort of
color grade straight out of the camera
which is some minor adjustments
you can see here i have some curves i've
also adjusted some of the primaries as
well some other bits and pieces
all working perfectly fine and now if
you guys see this second row footage
that is from my overhead cam which
you're watching right now and that is
the sony a7 mark iii it's plugged into a
ninja 5 external recorder and i'm
recording in an uncompressed dnx hr
codec which means the file size is going
to be massive but it is going to play
back very very easily as you guys can
see here if i scrub i'm having zero
issues at all and now finally for the
third level of footage we have the
talking head the a-roll which is the bmp
cc 6k so from blackmagic
again as we can see here playing back in
full 4k resolution no issues at all now
i thought i'd also show you guys some
fusion effects and some transitions so
what i'm going to do now is i'm going to
drop down my menu i'm going to come to
my effects and we're going to add some
more video transitions on now i'm just
going to add in a transition just a
random one here
i'm going to drop that on i'm going to
play back
so you can see there
a little bit of
stuttering and difficulty in actually
playing that back and this isn't
uncommon for these types of effects
these are very very fusion heavy effects
but you can see there the fact that it's
actually playing at all you can even see
the transition is actually better than
my windows editing pc with an rtx 3080
so if we come back here again and we
just play it back
and what we might also do
is we'll come up here
and we're going to turn the render cache
to smart
that's going to selectively render bits
and pieces
you can see now that this is almost
finished rendering you can see the gpu
has actually shot up quite a bit
since we've been playing around with
this transition now that that's all
rendered you can see there plays back
perfectly fine that was a very very
quick render and if we now add a
different transition to the end of this
clip
that's going to render again
and you can see there that probably took
about 10 seconds
until i was actually able to
play that back in real time so again
triple stacked footage everything's in
4k black magic in 6k i've got audio i've
got sound effects i've got transitions
i've also got color correction and it's
playing back without an issue and this
is just the base model m1 pro macbook
pro so we're not even talking about
upgraded ram or upgraded gpu cores or
even upgraded cpu this is bone stock
okay so let's try and render this bad
boy out and we're going to take a look
at what we can achieve
so let's call this a test render
we're going to save this onto my desktop
and we're going to render in the
settings i typically use for this
youtube channel so i'm going to change
this to h.265 by the way guys h.265 has
had a number of massive updates not only
on the mac but on resolve as well so
it's actually very very efficient uh 4k
resolution 25 fps we're going to leave
the encoding profile at main i don't
need main 10 or anything like that we're
going to add to the render queue and now
we are going to render so this is about
five minutes of a triple stacked
timeline
as you can see there it is flying
through it pretty quickly we can see the
gpu immediately shoot up to 100
and if we now bring up the activity
monitor let's check out the cpu
and see what that is doing
okay so we can see here the cpu is again
really not doing that much at all you
can see we've actually got
26
of the cpu idle and actually switches up
quite a bit
so we are really not using much of the
cpu at all in terms of ram you can see
the memory pressure there is getting
into the yellow so it's getting a little
bit hard but
you can still see we've got plenty of
memory left we're using zero swap
and this particular render is almost 40
done now quick note as well the fans are
not spinning at all they're completely
dead silent okay so the render has just
finished and that finished in just two
minutes and 19 seconds
so that is very very very impressive uh
it is only a four and a half minute
render um but
that's at the moment that's actually
beating out my windows pc they typically
take about one minute to render a minute
of footage so if you've got an eight
minute video for example it's going to
take roughly eight minutes surrender
at the moment this mac is beating that
pc anyway guys hopefully you enjoyed
this video not supposed to be super in
depth i've only had this thing for about
three hours so if you are interested in
more in-depth videos and benchmarks let
me know down below but apart from that
i'll catch you in the next one