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You are one of few KZfaqrs who appreciate the socio-economic impact of these M1 machines. Because now the barriers are obliterated with this technology. This is what is so important! Now more people can get into a machine like this and express their creativity and their voice.Bravo!

Apple Silicon is the best thing that happened in 2020, holy shit.

And that was all while screen recording. Wow

I'm on a fixed retirement income but still love dabbling with the higher resolution videos. Why? because they look so LOVELY thats why. So, this is just the best information... thank you Apple

You forgot to mention that it does all that QUIETLY..

Very impressive... Good indicator of what the future of Macbooks will be - becoming a much more viable choice for professionals and creatives

Alex thanks for showing tracking, if you make another video can you show noise reduction and Face Refinement ResolveFX?

Thank you Alex! This was super interesting. Looking forward to more!

Loving the new little teaser at the start of the videos

Amazing! I would love to see a Fusion test!

I’m not a video editor but your reactions are priceless:)

you reaction on the 8k killed me lol. that "year" on 7:52 took the throne.

Love the channel.. great content!

Absolutely impressive!

im curious how it performs with film grain and noise reduction on?

Thanks for the video... Really helpful ❤️

Interesting. My use case is 4K dpx sequences from film transfers. Typically have several ofx nodes and several color nodes. Would you expect this performance on these types of projects?

I like to see how this ina full project with a natural but layered cut. Thanks great either way, especially for simple videos for web publishing

In Preferences/User/Playback Settings, Performance mode is set to Automatic by default. What this means is that if you have a 8K clip on a HD timeline, Resolve is free to use quarter-res decode. If you want to always decode in full-quality, make sure your timeline resolution is same or higher than clip resolution, or switch off Performance mode completely which is a much heavier hammer.

Perhaps I missed it but what was the resolution of the timeline?

I'm looking at purchasing a new graphics card but after this video I'm thinking maybe of getting a Mac Mini. How is the render time at 4K when compared to a PC with a decent Graphic Card?

Great! Thanks for doing these tests! Maybe you could try nodes with noise reduction et sharpening?

Alex you’re awesome. Thanks for these videos. Made my choice easier

This really is unbelievable!!

Thank you so much sir for the Valuable information

I'm so pleased there is finally someone who is actually testing apples claims about the 8k... However what I'd find very interesting is trying to do all of the effects etc to a timeline with 45minutes worth of 4k footage from the red camera or Sony a7S3 using its 600mbps codec to replicate the length of a documantary... Or at least a timeline of at least 10-15minutes of 8k footage.. as indeed it's impressive it can play it but it's a six second Clip!. Realistically people need it to be able to cope and playback smoothly with up to an hour of 4k footage.. in most KZfaqrs cases 10-20minutes of 4k say from the A7S3 at 600mbps or the crazy R5 files at 4k 1400mbps!.. I have a strong feeling these M1 laptops will pretty much collapse with a long taxing timeline of say 4k 10bit 4.2.2. like said above from the R5 1400mbps wilt effects, full colour grading.. the problem with apple is they over promise and a lot of the time under deliver... With them really pushing how easily they can edit 8k footage... The average person will think oh cool I can edit, add effects, special effects, colour grading to my 1hour long documantary in davinci resolve without any problems smooth like butter if they can do it 8k without dropping a frame!!!.. this is where apple shot itself in both feet!.

This would be amazing for people who do same day edits in wedding events or just people who needs to edit while on the go.

I was waiting for you sir

Great video, I'm almost sold, now I need to see how it behaves on the fusion tab and with other software like Maya, Unreal Engine, Blender and 3D renderers which historically need large amounts of RAM to load textures

thxalot for sharing! liked and subscribed.

Good to know it, thanks!

I’m guessing the M1 MacBook Pro would handle 4K like a breeze in Resolve which is a big deal. Render times would also be interesting

I'm quite surprised!!! Very much shocked actually!

Wow!! It's amazing!!

Omg...just when i was going to switch to a pc laptop for editing...then boom apple drops the m1 which far exceeds my expectation....🤔🤔🤔THANK YOU I ASKED A COUPLE OTHER CHANNELS TO REVIEW 6k BRAW BUT YOURE THE 1st TO GO BEYOND 4k... THANK YOU...im interested in the mbp options i think ima stucc to the apple environment...

I really love your videos sir!

Looks amazing, I also am curious now to learn how to use DaVinci and move away from Premiere.

Amazing - thanks for doing this! What about Fusion that can sometimes be what kills the performance?

incredible power !

What's going to be even more amazing about this is when Apps like Davinci Resolve get out of Beta, and more updates come along to Big Sur to more fully optimize and improve the system,. we should still see even more performance improvements.

It would be really worthwhile to create a longer timeline. Instantaneous playback of short clips is encouraging, but the way resolve handles Vram means that longer timelines can really test the system.

Alex, that's amazing work! Out of curiosity, how does it handle inter-frame noise reduction? Also, do you know wether BlackMagic's I/O boxes are supported with the M1's USB 4/ "thunderbolt" ports?

Hi thanks for this video. I am thinking about buying a mac mini until apple release the new imac, with I suppose m2. I was wondering if there would be any problem with BMPCC4K BRAW. And also I would like to know the export time of this mac mini. Thank you very much again!!!

Thank you so much for these amazing videos. Could you please test NR node as well as some OFX nodes applied to 4K file ( raw and h.264/5)

Would love to see playback on a edited timeline with some fusion in it.

thank you for your service. what's your monitor display resolution? would love to see fusion 3D camera tracking text or particle text playback. I only get smooth playback in my Mac mini 2018 with no fusion effects when my monitor display set at 1080.

Would it be possible to check the performance of the Magic Mask tracking speed and really interested in the performance of the playback with a background blur applied..

What were the timeline settings though? Were these all run on a 1080p timeline, a 4k, 6k or 8k timeline? That's the true testament if playback is 100%. Resolve does an amazing job playing native RAW clips back on a 1080p timeline with no problem, but change it to a 4k or 8k and that's when the resolution starts to impact playback.

Thanks for making these. I would kd love to see the 6k red file (komodo owner here) running noise reduction and maybe throw in some stabilisation too.

*Thank you very much for your overview! Could you please, explain what does it mean "Also, I used the free version of Resolve 17 that is compatible with M1" Is this the regular version which is on theBM site for Macs? Or it is different version?*

And that's the power of optimization. I wonder why didn't we see hardware and software specifically built for each other before?

Thanks for doing these tests. I would love to see how it handles 4k optical flow speed warp, with the speed set to 25%. That always kills my Ryzen 3950 with RTX 2070 card.

amazing technology hitting the market for people.

That's awesome! Pretty amazing stuff. Have you tested 4k H.264 & H.265 on this machine yet?

Awesome..

Woah! The price point is so surreal. I'm a CG artist and I'm waiting for octane bench results. And rather than buying a big f pc, I'm gonna go with this! Obviously if render times are faster.

Ha! I immediately recognised that race car footage

Timeline resolution is set automatically to 1080p if you didn't change it from project/timeline settings?

Very interesting indeed! I'd love to see some render times too if you could Alex? 🙂 I'm half tempted to pick up an M1 Macbook Air!

thank you

Do you know if you can use the displayport on a dock like the elgato for the 2 display for the app, and then use a Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Monitor as a 3rd output for grading?

Man, this was great! Signaling all sorts of possibilities with this new processor. Could it be that Apple with give us cost effective creative products?

Can you test the Puget Systems Resolve Benchmark?

insane

Great Review! Would you please also test Mac Mini M1 to play 8 tracks of 4K video simultaneously playing on the preview window? I would like to see if the Mac Mini M1 can handle editing 8 tracks of 4K video split screen with color grading in DaVinci Resolve. Thanks.

I like your honest amazement ;-) Nice to see. Tnx Just and fyi : Dont know if you noticed but your audio in the youtube video is a bit out of sync.

incredible

Love this - Can this edit 4k DNG Raw video? I am looking to get the 16gb Mac Mini M1 when the Apple shops open again.

Hello Alex - fascinating. Could you test some 60fps footage, please? Thanks.

Hello Alex. Do you have any suggestion how to send clean feed of DaVinci Resolve out of Mac Mini or MacBook Pro to calibrated monitor?

So how do these new laptops with the M1 compare with the imacs that don't have them?

Wonder what would be the difference between 8 RAM and 16 RAM. Could someone create a comparative analysis. Much appreciated.

Alex, how will performance affect if you connect an external monitor (4K)? at the same test? is it be enough GPU performance for editing raw?

Just baffling. This thing keeps up with and in some cases runs circles around my 3950X and GTX1080 editing workstation. I tried to recreate your test and I don't even have enough VRAM... As soon as I drop in the boxing 8K RAW clip Resolve errors out.

This is so amazing! Color corrected 6K RED without issues... even if you have enough change for a decent render machine you can now take a a big chunk of that sum and invest it towards your monitor or whatever else. Really stoked for those new iMacs when they come out, they've been a good deal even before apple silicon.

Great review. I currently have a 27 inch late 2012 iMac with 3.4 GHZ Intel core i7 and 16 GB of ram. I edit using FCPX and DaVinci Resolve Studio but I have decided to ditch the desktop for a laptop. My editing is strictly for personal use. I restore old super 8 films and 1080P HD films and 4K iPhone footage. Do you think the basic MacBook Air M1 with 8GB ram will be sufficient or what upgrades should I make? I was hoping not to spend the extra money for the MacBook Pro but should I?

Quick question i downloaded the latest b2 version for m1 of resolve and it says I need to use rosette to install i thought if it was native software it would not need this is this right ? GREAT VIDEO thanks

Just so people know, the Edit tab is much "easier" on the footage than the Color tab. Footage plays back much more easily on the EDIT tab than on the COLOR tab (the color tab is the real test).

Hello, Do you think it's possible to calibrate and rig a clip or short film with this mac mini ? A twenty-minute film? In 4K? What about rushes and renderings ? External disks ? How is the 16GB mac mini better ? What's about in production ?

Many thanks for your video, would you be so kind please to comment, how is the performance of Fusion on the new Mac Mini M1? Many thanks :)

You should have used some qualifiers, and open FX to really push the computer to it's limits. Thanks for making this videos.

But what about fusión? I think many of us would Luke yo know if you can make light fusión work like titles, transitions or light animation composin

So far, in the several M1 youtube reviews for Davinci Resolve by various people, no one has tested the Fusion page, as far as I see. Given Blackmagic Design's system requirements of 32GB RAM for Fusion, I'm keen to see how the M1 handles Fusion. Thanks!

What about with Noise reduction and sharpening on the clips?

What if you stopped the screen recording and try again to play 8k full res?

Imagine when M1X comes out with Macbook Pro 16!

Thanku you sir can you make other video on export and render speed and with some after effects motion please for m1 mac mini

My MacBook Pro with the M1 chip/ same spec as yours doesn't seem to be able to play a 5k Red clip seamlessly like you showed. Is there anything I could be missing? I have no programmes running in the background either. Thanks, Nick

Can you plz make the video of how to create our own lut and how to arrange them nicely in davinci 17

All these done on the Macbook Air? Craazy!

Isn’t RAW actually easier to edit and playback than compressed files though. I do most of my work with Gemini and Helium’s at around 8:1 compression and I notice that they play back better than a lot of the more compressed codecs such as h.265 or prores 420

does it have a thunderbolt connector for external gpu ? also could u put windows 10 on a ssd drive and boot so you have full windows 10 to use for gaming and VR as mac still does not surport VR and mac does not surport all graphics cards so pc will be needed for more editing with 3d modeling stuff and gaming thanks

I'm dying to know about HEVC/x265 now. :D

timeline playback option is always at HD. you should have to change playback at each resolution and test it.

What’s the MacMini like for noise reduction? If it can do noise reduction with good playback I’ll sell my desktop pc and swap to that. I imagine it’s really power efficient as well?

what happens when you do denoising? any "GPU memory full" errors? it's still impressive given my 6gb rtx 2060 can't even playback eos r5 files smoothly!

Hi I'm interested in buying the mac mini m1, but my question is: I have a camera blackmagic pocket 4k and I shoot in braw and prores, does the mac mini not lose quality in rendering the final product? I've heard that the rendering time is good, but the quality is not so good. What is your opinion of the rendering? And to chose 8gb ram or 16gbram? And storage 260gb or 512gb? Thanks and continue with your great videos!

So regarding what you have shown, if I want to edite 4k to 6k RAW with many effects and transitions on timeline and with a 4k monitor connected do you think that it is going to go smooth?

Long story short, just go and grab the M1 powered machines 🤘🔥 absolutely insane