Testing M4 Base would the M4 Pro be significantly better?

[waloshin]

I am thinking not... overall I am extremely impressed with the base M4 for video editing it is about 5 minutes slower than my 13700K, RTX 3080 system, but it consumers about 5 times less power! Looking at activity monitor would a M4 Pro be simnifically faster or just a waste of money?

i7 Desktop 8 minutes export
M4 mini 13 minutes export

By the way Mac OS uses only 2,74 Gbs of ram for Premiere Pro versus 9 gigabytes to do the same thing in Windows. Final Cut Pro in testing is insanely fast about 4 minutes export time twice as fast as the I& desktop in Premiere, but the video looks blocky.

Would the M4 Pro export faster or about the same? Yes time is money, but is the M4 Pro 3 times the money worth it? I have not used a Mac since 2014 in this capacity so if I understand right I am using only 9/10 cpu cores ?

480i 2 hour video ProRes 422 LT to H264 at 15 Mbps.

So if I understand I am only using 9/10 cores and only 85% of gpu? Therefore the M4 Pro would maybe be a minute or so faster?

 

[MayaUser]

M4 Pro would be better for video editing

 

[Igantius]

Brandon Butch has comparison between the two with some benchmarks, including exporting Final Cut Pro, where the Pro was considerably faster than the standard mini. However, in his summing up, Brandon felt that the Pro was best suited to professionals who have intensive workloads as the performance of the base mini is still very good and handles 4K video editing, photo editing etc. well.

 

[Populus]

Hey OP, I just bought the M4 Pro. If you want me to test your workflow let me know, but mind you, I don’t have a license of Premier Pro.

If you come up with any test I could perform, just let me know!

 

[waloshin]

Hey OP, I just bought the M4 Pro. If you want me to test your workflow let me know, but mind you, I don’t have a license of Premier Pro.

If you come up with any test I could perform, just let me know!

Appreciate that.

 

[waloshin]

Is it common for Final Cut Pro to be able to render out video seven times faster than Premier pro but have blocky low quality video? Would compressor fixes or is it a software codec issue?

 

[waloshin]

Hey OP, I just bought the M4 Pro. If you want me to test your workflow let me know, but mind you, I don’t have a license of Premier Pro.

If you come up with any test I could perform, just let me know!

This would work with FCP here is some test footage as well as my workflow!

Filen Drive

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drive.filen.io

 

[waloshin]

Did some testing my Intel i7 13700K, Nvidia RTX 3080 10 GB, 64 GB ram uses 600 watts exporting ProRes 422 LT to H264 my new Mini M4 uses only 33 watts!

 

[MayaUser]

And probably M4 Pro would used 70-80w but very close in perf to your i7+Rtx3080 in some cases above
M4 Pro probably will have some fan noise when you doing heavy lifting but thats all

 

[Populus]

This would work with FCP here is some test footage as well as my workflow!

Filen Drive

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Platform. Get started with 10 GB of free storage space.

drive.filen.io

As soon as I can I’ll install FCP and download your data to test my M4 Pro.

 

[waloshin]

Anyone can test with the data Filen Drive . I do make money with my video editing just need to see if spending three times as much on a Mini Pro is worth it compared to base mini. Possibly there would be no difference between them.


Windows 11 13700K, RTX 3080 10 Gb, 64 GB DDR5 ram
-9 minuts 42 seconds Premiere Pro
- Noise very high
- 550 watts power consumption


Mac mini M4 Base 16 GB Ram, 256 GB internal space

-10 minutes 43 seconds Premiere Pro 15 Mbps fan noticeable.

- 11 minutes 42 Minutes Final Cut Pro at 3 Mbps bitrate internal drive to internal

- 9 minutes 52 seconds Final Cut Pro at 3 Mbps bitrate internal drive to external will test at 15 Mb/s bitrate when I get compressor.

*7 minutes 30 seconds when video was rendered previously.

- Noise did not hear fan at all

- 60 watts power consumption.