Today we compare the ($2,000) M1 Max and ($8,000) M1 Ultra versions of Mac Studio for video editing in Final Cut Pro. And there's a few BIG problems that need to be addressed.
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As always, I enjoy your style of video. One caution, you appear to be recommending buying, not buying the ultra, the concern however if somebody spends their money I’m not buying an ultra and then in a month or two the software comes out and they wish they had. Perhaps the recommendation should be to just hold and not buy any until the software is released.
Why are you telling him how to do his job/cometary? I don’t think that was necessary.
I’d love to see Premiere beta and Resolve or Resolve beta tested. Everyone on YouTube seems to forget that these two apps make a major part of the market.
New premiere is out as of yesterday
I think what you’ve identified is the speed of h264 encodes which is handled by specific hardware.
Try to do a RED > ProRes or ProRes to ProRes project.
Thanks for the comparison. Hopefully the next os update improves performance. I’m using a 2019 MacBook Pro with Radeon Vega 64 egpu. I edit in Davinci Resolve. Does the Mac studio work with egpu?
Miles! Great video. I’m considering the Studio Ultra later this year but waiting to see what the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro will look like. It will probably be too expensive but we’ll see.
My editing program of choice is Davinci Resolve. I would love to see the performance there. I’m sure there is optimization that has to be done. But Davinci is always on top of that.
Yes, the Studio systems are going to SMOKE when they get optimized software.
Thanks for producing sharing this content. You saved people a lot of money with this one.
I’d like to see how both machines handle editing 8k ProRes while batching 8k ProRess proxies from RAW, with an h.264/265 render cue, at the same time.
Admittedly after watching many hours of apple studio comparison reviews, I almost skipped this one; but man I’m glad I didn’t. This is the best video-editing focused apple studio comparison out there! IMO it did t leave me wanting more data to make an option, it left me feeling like I had all the data I need, finally.
Have you tried the Studio Max with 64G RAM and the 32 core GPU – to see how it compares with the base ULTRA?
I agree – the hardware is here – that is the good news. The bad news is that the software needs to catch up and fully utilize it in more than one way. The good news is I have the base Studio Max that was a plug and play with my Mac Mini M1. It was more than what I was hoping for and I know it is only going to get better. 🙂
This was super helpful! I’m curious if upgrading to the 32 core GPU or 64GB of RAM would make the M1 Max any better for video editing or not at all necessary?
Do you think the M1s will be optimised though? is there a chance they won’t get optimised?
By far your best video yet, Miles. This is the comparison I was waiting for.
I contemplated a full future-proof spec of the M1 ultra at over $6,000 to replace my 2015 27” iMac desktop since I tend to buy once and then use the device for 6-7 years. But with news of Apple M2 in the horizon and videos like this, I think I’ll just go with a base M1 Max and upgrade it in 2-3 years if something leaps and bounds better comes out. Already the M1 chip will be a huge performance boost to my system and workflow. I’m not looking to pay $4k extra for front facing ports and power I’m not going to use anytime soon.
I update my computer every 7 years or so as well. I’m still using a Late 2014 Retina 5k 27″, I was hoping for an iMac Pro update with a mini LED screen – this ship has sailed.. now I’m thinking about Apple XDR update which is rumored to happen and M2 based desktop/laptop. From now on, I think we’ll see incremental clock speed upgrades of single cores which may be crucial considering your software of choice – for instance Adobe CC is NOT optimised well and it will never be – they simply don’t care. So, single core performance is the most important thing in apps like PS or AE. Waiting for M2 is the way to go if you haven’t updated yet – at least for me, but I think we’re on the same boat 🙂
Great video. Just a week after this was released a Final Cut update came out (10.6.2) that says one of the things it did was “Optimize playback and graphics performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio.” Wonder if that made any difference.
Seems like for solid level video editing the Max is perfectly fine and can handle A LOT. For someone who doesnt need heavy effects work on their short films, the Max is going to suit me very well it seems. No need to fork over thousands more for not that noticeable performance. I only deal with cinematic file formats that usually dont exceed 4K-5K (no need to shoot in 8K for shorts unless VFX is needed). This video saved me a ton of money
if you edit video and are comparing a couple different macs, you basically just need to look at how many GPU cores the model you’re looking at has (as well as lots of RAM).
If you do photos in Lightroom, the number of CPU cores and RAM will be where you want to spend your money.