Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by p1necone on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:37AM (#25067111)

I don't see these being very useful for video editing with RAM maxing out at 16gb. Maybe 1080p, but not 4k.

(And the small storage, but that can be remedied with a NAS or other external storage, and then fast local scratch space only needs to be big enough for a couple of projects at a time)

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by kayoone on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:15AM (#25067299)

They have shown impressive performance with 6k and 8k ProRes footage, even ipad pros and latest iphones are pretty incredible when it comes to editing 4K video and exporting it faster than latest macbooks. With Thunderbolt it's also pretty easy to extend high performance storage.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by p1necone on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:21AM (#25067339)

I assume there's some clever caching from fast storage + prerendering lower res footage to scrub through?

I was going off normal recommendations for video editing on x86 desktops/laptops. But it makes sense they'd go the extra mile on the software end to make it work on phones.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by threeseed on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:05AM (#25067260)

People are regularly doing 4K video editing on their iPhones and iPads.

In particular with Luma Fusion.

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