I currently have a mid-2011 2.7Ghz 27" iMac that has been upgraded to the stated limits and then some in an effort to keep it working and viable as long as possible. It has all SSDs internally, the full 16GB of RAM it can have, and an upgraded video card. As such, I've been waiting for the new M1-powered iMacs to come out- and now that the info on them has been announced, am trying to determine whether the new 24" model will work well for my uses and I can get one and save a bit of money or if I need to wait for the replacement for the 27" iMacs to come out and get it. Since the specs of the 24" iMac are very similar to those of the M1 Macbook Pros, I figured seeing how they perform would be a good glimpse at whether the smaller iMac would work.
For the majority of the time, I know the smaller iMac will work- but a few times a year I have to use the iMac for all of the A/V work for the dance performances my wife's non-profit performs as well as editing the footage recorded at the performance down into a DVD for the performers. All of the video editing is done in FCP, and depending on what she needs for projection video I do some work in Motion as well. Editing the DVD tends to be the most involved in FCP since it usually involves footage from several cameras combined into a multicam clip- as long as the footage is not on a USB drive and on the iMac's internal SSDs the old computer handles this with minimal lag.
Though I don't use it that often, when I do have to use Motion it has always been the program that has pushed the computer to its limits since I tend to be doing things that involve particles (and lots of them)- for a piece several years ago I was using the fire particle simulation and for a roughly 5-minute song's worth of animation it took the computer about 10 hours to render it.
So my question would be for those who have M1 Macbook Pros with 16GB of RAM (what looks like will be the most the 24" iMacs can have) and who do video editing and motion graphics on them- how well do they perform? I know the performance of the newer chip should 3+ times faster than my current one, but I also know that both programs require lots of memory and don't know if the 16GB will still be sufficient.
Thanks!
For the majority of the time, I know the smaller iMac will work- but a few times a year I have to use the iMac for all of the A/V work for the dance performances my wife's non-profit performs as well as editing the footage recorded at the performance down into a DVD for the performers. All of the video editing is done in FCP, and depending on what she needs for projection video I do some work in Motion as well. Editing the DVD tends to be the most involved in FCP since it usually involves footage from several cameras combined into a multicam clip- as long as the footage is not on a USB drive and on the iMac's internal SSDs the old computer handles this with minimal lag.
Though I don't use it that often, when I do have to use Motion it has always been the program that has pushed the computer to its limits since I tend to be doing things that involve particles (and lots of them)- for a piece several years ago I was using the fire particle simulation and for a roughly 5-minute song's worth of animation it took the computer about 10 hours to render it.
So my question would be for those who have M1 Macbook Pros with 16GB of RAM (what looks like will be the most the 24" iMacs can have) and who do video editing and motion graphics on them- how well do they perform? I know the performance of the newer chip should 3+ times faster than my current one, but I also know that both programs require lots of memory and don't know if the 16GB will still be sufficient.
Thanks!