Mac Mini 2020 and FCP Rendering

[loby]

Anyone with the new M1 Mac Mini 2020 done a long rendering in FCP and seen any fast differences in speed and completion compared to the Macbook Pro or even Mac Pro?

All I see on the web and youtube is 10-15 second clip rendering or pod cast youtube style examples and not any complicated rendering or editing. I do corporate videos that have transitions, effects, motion and lengths from 1.5 to 2.5 hours in 1080p, so I am curious. I have a Mac Pro 2013 at 12-Core and if the mini can compare or top (minus the heat), then it is a sell for me.

Anyone do any complicated editing and rendering in FCP on the new M1 Mac Mini?

Thanks for your info in advance.

 

[loby]

Here is one YouTube comparison to start us out..

 

[MNLondon]

I'm seeing painfully slow rendering times on the Mac mini M1. I have the 8gb ram version and I'm not sure why this is. I'm doing stabilisation and rolling shutter and it's taking a day or so. Any clues?

 

[lederermc]

I'm seeing painfully slow rendering times on the Mac mini M1. I have the 8gb ram version and I'm not sure why this is. I'm doing stabilisation and rolling shutter and it's taking a day or so. Any clues?

You probably need more RAM... check your memory usage. Is the app native M1?

 

[CC88]

Here is one YouTube comparison to start us out..

would like to see how it perform in rendering during editing, transition, coloring, noise reduction, stabilization etc

during the export I can go away or doing it when I don‘t need to stay in front of it.

 

[loby]

would like to see how it perform in rendering during editing, transition, coloring, noise reduction, stabilization etc

during the export I can go away or doing it when I don‘t need to stay in front of it.

Yes, I too...but if you noticed all of the videos I have seen on this topic they don't go into doing more in-depth involved editing, so we cannot tell really. They praise the speed, but don't see real-life applications. They praise RAW 8K rendering of 5 minute videos (like really...if you are doing 8K stuff, you won't look at the mini) and how many really will work with 8K right now? Are they getting kick-backs from Apple's advertising department?

I work with HD and 1080p, so I can assume it will fly on that since it handles 8K ok? How about 45 to 1 hour videos with color correction, transitions and a little more thrown at the mini? Yes, the fans don't go on, but do we get rid of our Mac pro's or higher end iMacs for the mini right now?

That is what I would like to really see before buying.

 

[pldelisle]

That is what I would like to really see before buying.

I think no one will ever be able to fully answer this to 100% because nobody every has the exact same use case scenarios (and it's totally normal, we don't to the exact same thing on a computer as somebody else).

And that's why Apple has a 14 day no question asked return policy.

 

[loby]

I'm seeing painfully slow rendering times on the Mac mini M1. I have the 8gb ram version and I'm not sure why this is. I'm doing stabilisation and rolling shutter and it's taking a day or so. Any clues?

Thanks for sharing this, for the debate about 8GB or 16GB for RAM for video work is still under consideration.

I think no one will ever be able to fully answer this to 100% because nobody every has the exact same use case scenarios (and it's totally normal, we don't to the exact same thing on a computer as somebody else).

And that's why Apple has a 14 day no question asked return policy.

So true, thanks for the reminder. We will have to see if the mini fits into our workflow. If it doesn’t, it is not mini’s fault or Apple’s. It means we need the next tier or higher.