Real World Video Editing Performance on Apple M4 MAX 👉 4k -12k footage test [Premiere Pro]
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Testing the Apple Macbook Pro M4 Max with128GB RAM, 16-Core CPU & 40-Core GPU for video editing. Can it edit 12k footage?
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Considering I only built my PC for video editing and music production at similar cost (and I don't have a HDR monitor as good as what's on this laptop) - this is insane performance and value and on battery power too. And I say that as someone who is a PC performance user my whole life. The pending M4 Ultra Studio desktop will be the final nail.
You're right, I might change my windows workstation for the M4 Ultra, hopefully the leaked iMac Pro is true and it has the M4 Ultra so I would just go to that route. Unless the 5090 is so good Mac would be the clear choice for professionals.
The M4 ultra will be insane! Things can only get better with 256 gb of unified memory with 4 media encoders and everything so close together in the soc.
Rumors are saying it’ll be one unified SOC instead of two stitched together.
I really love timeline editing content, can't wait!
No long talk... I'm totally sold on the Maxed out M4 Max Macbook Pro. Worth every single penny. Thanks so much for the video. Great work Lauri 🥂
@ interesting… but looking at the insane workloads that machine handles (I probably never need to shoot in 12K in my life lol), it would most definitely check all my boxes and boxes I never knew I needed, you catch my drift
If you take a shot every time he says mental you wouldn't have a mentality anymore
I learned that key shortcut to switch between windows of the same application, cause I had the same headache as you about that coming from a windows at home, mac at work lifestyle:
In chrome with 2 different windows open, press command and "~" which is the button between escape and tab at the upper left, 2nd row. It's called a "tilda." This only lets you switch between windows in a given program, so I think Windows OS is still more satisfying to use, because you can alt+tab across multiple applications and windows, but (unless I'm still missing something) in Mac OS, you have to use 2 key shortcuts if the window that is highlighted isn't the one you want (command+ "tab" to get into chrome, then command+ "~" to switch to a different chrome window than whichever is the first highlighted one.)
Hope this helps, I was able to figure out what your chat was referring to, but thought some extra context would help :)
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I Watched the VOD out of curiosity while I wait for your edited video on this, and my goodness it really *is* absolutely mental to get that kind of performance, at such a low power draw, with the portability of a laptop. Especially if it's a business expense, it's worth considering. I'll probably keep saving and compare prices with the M4 Max Mac Studio in the summer. I'm torn because I usually live the workstation life, but having the *option* to do some portable work might be cool...hard to quantify if you haven't done it before.
Cheers!
Control+Tab switches tabs in the mainstream browsers if you hold down Control, while Control+` lets you switch between the last two active tabs in Opera and Edge.
Would love to see a Davinci Resolve test with Fusion tracking and motion graphics or 3D 👀
Me too, and also After Effects with the new 3d workflow.
PLEASE THIS
And with color grading, adding grain and noise reduction
Is it possible you can test with an M3 MAX with the same 128 GB Memory and how it works. M3 Max if you can pick one up might be a better value if performance is close.
Always purchase the best tool for the job.
I know I'm late to the party as I just watched the video... but to snap a window in Mac OS, use the fn+control and then a directional key. Also to switch between open windows you can use control+down key then select the window you want.. if you tab while in that view you can switch between different applications. Hope this helps.
Also forgot, even quicker use Command + ` (Backtick key). (I had to just relearn this as I forgot about it)
To switch between docked Chrome tabs, use Control + Tab. To switch between floating Chrome windows, use Command + ~ (known as the Grave Accent and Tilde key).
Imagine what the M4 extreme is gonna be or even just the M4 ultra.
Both coming with possibly
P-CORES ONLY!!
Mental!!
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Nice! Can you do one it’s high quality playback enabled to compare😏🤩?
Just when i got recommended PC from your builds, now i have to sell all and buy MacBook =\
pc is more than enough for everything, plus the price is low and upgrade options are awesome, macbook is only recommended if you want portability, for video editing, even the m1 series is fine!!
Thanks, it is impressive.
do you think the performance of a 64gb ram version would be similar when it comes to video editing?
Yes!
@@theTechNotice64gb it is then~
@@theTechNotice update!! i got my m4 max with 64gb of ram!! thanks for providing real world tests with these machines!! This made the decision far easier compared to watching BENCHMARK SCORES!
Why macOS used so much ram ? Can someone tell me ?
Which app did you use to monitor the Macs performance?
Dammit…Stop making me want to buy one…:)
LOL
Great work as always. I think you can focus on external HDs comparisons and mini servers using the new thunderbolt 5 capabilities until the PC markets get their sh*t together. How do they compete with internal drive for savings. Also, what about adding an external GPU using thunderbolt 5? You can apply that to the upcoming mac studio and by the time you wrap with mac studio the PC industry might catch up again. Good luck!
Thank You for this 👍
Is there a large monitor with equal quality to the new macbook display?
I'm waiting for Resolve test. M4 max is insanely good for video editing
Better to have a laptop cooler underneath of the computer if going to use it on the regular for this type of long for heavy codec editing. Heat dissipation is key to help the life of the machine. The ability for a small laptop to cool it self is amazing…
looking forward to see the same review but for mac mini m4 pro maxed out
I'd love to see you ad some speed ramps to these clips when testing. Once I add some speed ramps to my clips, nothing can play it back smoothly unless I transcode to prores.
FN+Control+ left / right for easy snapping windows
I love preview on Mac, missing this so much at work
When dragging with option - You don’t need to go to the edge of the side, also sometimes very fast
If you do alt tab and need to switch between two different windows of app - just click up arrow ;)
I hope it helps Tou to be more effective on Mac
Thank You for great video - this one is way better than synthetic, useless benchmark videos 👍
Thank you for the video, highly appreciated!
If you do the same test with Davinci Resolve can you create a multicam with 4 different h264 or h265 clips and play it back in reverse? Usually this is what makes my edits a nightmare. When you play it back forward it is absolutely fine but when you start playing it back in reverse, it is so choppy, literaly unusable on the M1 Max, despite of the playback resolution, storage used, whit or without colorgrade or anything, it is just choppy as hell. The GPU and CPU are used at 50%, I can't figure out what causes the issue.
Thank you in advance and once again, thank you the amazing work and all the effort to bring to us such an insightful tests!
Thank a lot! Tech. I think my M1 Max is slow now....
Need your opinion on this. I’m debating about getting the 16” M4 Max w/ 128GB RAM, 2TB (16-Core CPU & 40-Core GPU) or is the base M4Max w/ 36GB RAM, 2TB (14 CPU 32GPU) or is the M4pro 14CPU 20GPU 36GB and 2TB be enough?
I’m a photographer and want to get into video editing. Not doing full films but prob work on 4k mostly and lower or maybe 6k ?
This is my dream laptop 😄 i wanna do high end 3d editing and I need a high end Mac or pc for that but can't afford one LoL
thanks for the cool coverage, what do you think about the keyboard? I got mine yesterday and compared to my MacBook Air M2 it feels "loosey" or wiggling and in the middle of the keybord, the keystrokes "sounds" and feels other then at the edges, like that there is some "room" underneath and procue kind of an "echo" ... is this some known limitiations of the new keyboards of the M MacBook Pros or did I get a faulty one?
The beauty of Apple Silicon's Unified Memory is that if you have plenty of memory, the system can allocate more memory to the GPU-potentially even exceeding the VRAM available on an RTX 4090.
M4 max has 96GB max VRAM, it is kind of a lot for a laptop, but would be still nice if they can upgrade UM to double to get 256GB with 192GB VRAM
Would love to see Nuke composition with 4k clips including AOV’s … depth and noise reduction now this is a real life test from my point of view
Can u make some performance on the 64 Version?
As a long time Apple user I always love seeing someone being exposed to how Mac software and hardware work with media editing. Never been much of a contest.
I sense a new convert to the dark side. LOL
it better be smooth for $5k
😂😂😂😂 still in recovery mode huh?
@ nope i refuse to pay 5k for a mac. I can build 3 pcs for that money
@ the thing is i can afford 3 rubbish pcs 1 good pc build and 5 maxed out mac book maxes. YOU CANT
@@ottomanbeatsofficial Okay
@@ottomanbeatsofficial The Bottom line is: You won't find an alternative that is portable and has the same performance even if you're willing to spend double what this cost. The fact that we are even thinking of comparing a laptop this tiny and with limited cooling possibilities with a full-fledged full-tower PC (without peripherals and screens BTW) is already an indicator of how insanely good this product is.
Memory is everything in a mac.
128gb should be availbke on all macs for just $400 more.
$$5k is way to much with no uogrades possible ever.
Can you please Test AV1 Playback (decode) at different resolutions and FPS on both the M4 Max's with 48GB and 128GB. Then also do some tests with AV1 Encode which should be very difficult since hte encoder engines on apple silicon arent designed for encoding.
38:25 you have to get some 17k footage to stress's the m4 max 😂
So is 64gb actually enough? 128gb cost significantly more...not sure whether it is worth it :/
I would like to see performance on Adobe Lightroom when you Denoise 100 photos
The m4 max is littery crazy and rember the m5 or m6 will be a redesign and be 20 procent faster per version like what also I wonder if the threadripper becomes more completive if transcoded everything into either prores 422
/422 HQ dnx and re ran all of the test to use proxys to edit
128 Gigabytes needed for serious for AE users.
35:15 i thought that many mics have mute button now %)
i am more into mac mini : ))) hehe
I'm not into apple but I wanna buy the mini
@samiier3324 yup
IMO, the Mac Mini is the best bang for buck for that form factor at the moment. Bought one for my home setup and its great!
Please provide this laptop to Ben or jarred for gaming review
Please I humbly request you
Is your 12K footage on a 12K timeline or is it a 4K timeline?
Yes, 12k timeline! :)
So i tested my m4 max 40 gpu, 64gb ram and 2tb storage, i dropped 4 timelines with 4k fottage from 2-4hour in length each and dropped one effect on one of the timeline about 4 hr long (2 of them 4hr long and 2 other were around 2hr) and i tried to play playback and it was showing me clown death balls. Glorified m4 max has its limits, i dont feel like 5k usd is justified with not being able to play smoothly with 4 timelines of 4k footage 2-4hr long.
Upgrade to 128GB will fix your issues
How long it take for you to render and export?
@redesignedlife777 rendering was very slow, it look long time i couldn't even wait till it was 50% rendered. I did not export, fans were blasting loud nonstop, so iv decided to return, i thought that 5k price is not justified, who would enjoy working with such loud fans, it is ridiculous. Need to wait for m6-m7 they need to redesign chassis and improve cooling, fans as loud as my intel 2019, if not worse
@RunForPeace-hk1cu i actually monitored ram and less than half was used during fcpx test, so ram was not the issue
@@ia6980 lol. Good to know bout your experience. Been lots of stories on loud fans
128 will feel “small and slow” as soon as you start playing with LLMs. That’s where the real limits are on this Laptop.
I had to refund the 48gb cuz way too small ram. 128 is barely bearable for mid size LLMs with large context window (quantized to 4bit)
Sorry my friend...Premier Pro Sucks, Please go back to or just switch to Davinci Resolve, its a very mature software now with better Apple Silicon support and better software support especially with your codecs and its Resolve trademarked timeline where your clips will better; especially the color.
Thank you for this!