The M1 MacBook Air for Filmmakers | It’s never been this good!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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The Apple M1 MacBook Air can edit 6k raw from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera! It can even edit high end footage from Hollywood's favorite cinema camera, the Arri Alexa. Check out my real world tests in this video.
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This video is so much more valuable than people running benchmarks.
People like benchmarks because it’s a simple comparison that appears to show what is better without the need for understanding the nuances of real world performance and actual experience. They often don’t understand that a higher number doesn’t always mean better or what that higher number actually gets you.
As someone who's been using Windows all my life... this M1 looks really really good.
In all these tests screen recording will lower the power and available RAM...8GB has been just fine and amazing in Resolve editing, stabilizing and coloring BMPCC4K RAW in full 4k timeline on my base M1 Air.
@Nick Bibbo are you still happy with the M1 air for braw 4k edits in davinci resolve? Should i get the air or pro, 8 or 16gb? What compression u use in bmpcc? Q5 or 12:1? Thank you, hope u can reply.
How many minutes of 4k videos, with all the configurations that you said, can you recommend to render before the 8gig ram or the macbook air gets into a little trouble? And all that question is just for FCP
@@aceofspades0996 you won't get a reply. legend says nick bibbo is still rendering his project
0:27 my head still hurts
I laughed pretty hard at this
and my heart
wow your color grading looks great.
I definitely couldn't edit the braw on my 16gb M1 with a 4k timeline. Lesson learned on my side too!
@Skip you couldn’t? That would be kind of a deal breaker for me.😞
@Skip …but when I think about it, transcoding is a pretty common procedure.
@@whengrapespop5728 I mean yeah I still transcode👍
@@whengrapespop5728 Why edit on a 4K timeline if you’re not utilizing a large monitor over 32 inches. 1080 timeline is probably way more efficient. Just render in 4K
@@areginalmedia6451 You need to be able to transcode it back into full resolution for grading, and it would be tiring to work with something that doesn’t play back well. For editing, working with 1080p is fine, but not for accurate color grading and correcting.
I've been editing the X-t4 footage on one but using half re optimised media. Works great!
Is this the DR beta version optimized for the M1 chip or the regular version, there are different links under the downloads tab on the website for the M1 version
I guess we just need to wait for some further versions of the M series. The perspective seems to be really good though 🤔
When he threw the box my heart jumped! 😥
For short film/commercial 4K video editing would you recommend investing in a Macbook Pro or IMac? Really how powerful of a mac is necessary for a smoother editing process?
You can even mod it with a simple thermal pad to get MB Pro performance.
Thanks for the video! Always great content! Just wanted to point out that Davinci hasn’t released a version yet that is configured in a way to make the most out of the M1 chip. My guess is that the process is gonna be a whole lot smoother and faster once they do that.
There’s a beta for the m1 version of 17 it’s buried on the support page.
That's using the M1 version of the Resolve beta? It looks like your timeline was struggling more than some of the other people reviewing it.
I'm looking at the Mac Mini, but I'll wait for a Pro version to come out (next year maybe?). I'd want more USB-C ports and faster ethernet and some time for software developers to update for Apple Silicon.
I'm sitting here right now with my loud PC running a fan just to browse the web. I really hope that I can get a computer that can edit my videos for the price of an upgraded Mac Mini. If things work out the way I want, I'll never build a PC again.
Probably has to do more with having only 8GB of RAM and using Screen Recording at the same time, with the 16GB you probably wouldn't see that.
Lots of comments here asking if this is the M1 coded version of Davinci Resolve that is an entirely different download. It is a viable question considering you never mentioned it. There is a huge difference I hear. V17 beta 4 studio - if it doesn't mention M1 in the download header, then you may be testing the wrong version.
Saw many Tests about the M1with Resolve and it seems like up to 4k60p in H.264 or H.265 or any ProRes format runs very good on M1. Just RAW codecs seem to struggle.
UA-cam keeps recommending my M1 air editing videos ha ha!
Constantly reminding me I made the right decision. Especially for my A7IV footage! 😁
My friend is telling me to wait for iMac M series. But personally shooting 1080P only at the moment and using FCP I can see myself making a lot of money with MacBook Air. Thank you for sharing.
That’s what I’m trying to decide. I won’t really have the budget for a good while to shoot 4K and produce 4K videos so I’m trying to see if it’s enough for 1080p color graded and such videos.
@@josevazval I bought MacBook Pro 13” after long thought. If you won’t shoot 4K MacBook Air will do pretty well. You can shoot 1080p and edit in 4K timeline with no lag at all. But I would suggest to go for 512gb
Did you edit in the beta version designed specifically for M1? It's a separate download.
It says beta in the bottom so I think so
@@kingsamvisuals all 17 is in beta
Now I really want you to test Pro version and Mac mini
Great video man. Also, love the new youtube setup.
Thanks for the video. I make 5 - 10 minute 4k videos for UA-cam, using I movie. Thinking the m1 mba is good enough for me. Just ordered a refurbished 16gb, 1tb version. Thanks again.
Hello, I would like to have a second opinion.
I want to do 4K Video editing with FinalCut. Videos are no longer than 15 minutes. On the background maybe the safari browser.
No games. Export and Import time is not important.
Would you say that Macbook Air M1, 7 GPU, 8GB RAM, 512 SSD is enough?
Thanks
did you order it? how's it going for you
This is such a useful video. Not those dam benchmark nonsense.
Question
1 more core or
8 more gig of ram?
Would love to see the same testing on the Mac mini
You look slightly more contrasty than usual today. And this video did nothing to cure my GAS for one of those new MacBooks Pros😝
YYYESSSS! I love your channel dude.
I love how you're always drinking my favorite beers in every video.
I have been PC guy for years, but I used to use Mac back in the day (I only did music and no video work then). These new M1's seem powerful for the price. I do have a question regarding your testing. With PC I notice (at least with my laptop) that not being plugged in really hinders performance (could just be a windows thing). Did you notice any differences in performance between being plugged in or not? It did not look to be plugged in in the video.
these macbooks don't require it to be plugged in for it to be running in full performance mode, that's a huge advantage and and therefore i prefer apple over windows for audio/video production to keep the setup minimal as possible, and also mac os is very optimized. great user experience.
Pocket4k, MBA w/16GB, T5 drives, FCP, Speed booster, Davinci is free, mic and lights. Still cheaper. Film was roughly 2.8k. 4K is more than enough. Better bang for the buck.
Blackmagic: Hold my 12K Camera. :D
I've never been this early lol Love hearing about the new M1 models
Congrats
Would you recommend this laptop but maybe with the 16gb ram instead for standard 4k video not 8k like with a sony a7iii using FNPX? My budget is limited lol
There is a 32 core version of this chip slated for their pro machines, according to Bloomberg.
Yeah, we’ll probably see a 12-16core (8-12 performance core) chip for larger laptops. A 16-20 core (12-16 performance core) for iMac and Mac Mini Pro and 24-32 core for the Mac Pro.
These are all just guesses based on vague leaks, but it makes sense that they would have a wide gap between the performance of the low end Air and Mini and the higher end machines. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a reason to buy the more expensive stuff.
Makes me excited for the machines that are actually designed for video editing to come out.
@@DragonsinGenesisPodcast agreed
Homie G. Run a Blender benchmark on this thing and see how it does.
How will the MacBook Air M1 with 8 core and 8 gpu 16 ram and 512 ssd handle editing? That’s the one I just got and waiting for it to come in.
Is the Davinci Resolve the optimise version for M1
Yup. He used version 17 which is optimized for the M1 :)
@@LukasHauf There are two of them - it is a separate download.
I think air will be fine for bmpcc 4k rather than 6k
you can also get a macbook air with 8 cores on the GPU
Is this normal to edit 4k on a 1080p timeline yet export in 4K?
So many words that I don’t understand 😭
proxy is our everything
I'm kind of disappointed. I was gonna use it with my Zcam pro-res files.
I wouldn’t be disappointed. Should work great with those prores files
8GB of RAM? It's obsolete already.
My understanding is that the it uses memory different to what we understand on a PC. I believe that the ssd drive is insanely fast and the chip will start using that as it needs more memory. From what I saw in a demo, it simply does not slow down when needing more memory.
why meat why
Seems a bit clunky to me.
dude literally threw a macbook