Macbook AIR M1 for Davinci Resolve?! Should you still buy it in 2022?!

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The M1 Macbook Air is still a fantastic option for Davinci Resolve users, even with just 8Gb of RAM. Yes its considerably less capable than the newer M1 Pro models but it's still a great laptop that is still capable of some serious video editing providing you know it's limitations! With the used market flooded with Macbook Airs, its actually probably an even better time to buy than when they were first released one year ago.
00:00 Intro
01:06 My Macbook Air
01:49 My Macbook M1 Pro
02:28 The Pro is TWICE the laptop
05:00 Where the AIR Wins
07:05 Studio - Timeline
10:06 Studio - Multiple Tracks
11:42 Studio - Titles/Transitions Full Res
13:00 Studio - Titles/Transitions Half Res
14:30 Studio - Noise Reduction
15:14 Studio - Rendering
15:40 Battery Life
16:58 Resolve Free
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@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Macbook Air 8gb rendered this video in 13:30 minutes (same as the tour video!). I edited and rendered this video on the Air and used about 70% battery total. For reference, I also ran the same project off again using my Macbook M1 Pro and it took... you guessed it, half the time... it took just 6:32!

@Leprutz 2 года назад

I would actually like it to render in less time. So I can count as working hour and get myself a foot massage in the meantime. In the end the edit is more important to me than the render time. So if it works that well I might actually be considering to buy myself an air with 16gb ram and 1TB But true that the heating will be a disaster. This is the reason I dislike Macbooks. But any other high efficiency windows laptop gets almost as hot too.

@jamesperedo5699 Год назад

Awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to help us decide what works for us ✌🏼

@gwapster13 2 года назад

Great demo! The built in SSD on the M1 machine is so fast that even having a lot of memory swapping does not hurt the performance of the machine too much, this is probably why 8 GB of RAM is enough for most usage.

@larryFWD 2 года назад

I'm loving what you're about Mr Alex. Thanks for another good one matey.

@pugtom7114 2 года назад

Great video. Digging the christmassy attire!

@MTBs 2 года назад

Thanks! Appreciate your honest opinion. Will pick up a M1 Air very soon.

@jksdw 2 года назад

This is such an amazing video. I swear you're underrated! Loved all the professional opinion on the MBA when U come from a heavy video background. Definitely will know what's overkill for an beginner

@borntrillbaby 3 месяца назад

Nice and comprehensive review Alex!

@MAPLEMEDIA 2 года назад

Excellent video Alex, very thought provoking, thanks for all the great videos.

@luissantiagosuarezcely4983 Год назад

im so grateful for your channel , you show the real work of a daily video editor, I use Davinci resolve , and I have Mac mini 16 gb and some transition an titles struggle the cpu.

@aviosmedia2 2 года назад

I'm in exactly the same boat! Always been a PC guy but the M1 Air seemed too good to be true, so I tried it and I really like it. Now, the interesting part is that when I use the Air I feel cool and creative like I should be sitting in Starbucks with my Beats and my cool shades on sipping something with a really long name. But...if I really want to get things done, particularly in a time crunch, I go back to the PC. Partly because it has dual screens, and partly because I just know my way around it so much better. The Air can do it...I'm just faster elsewhere. But...compared to the huge gaming laptop I used to have to lug around for editing on the go - the M1 Air is an absolute winner!

@SetandFlowPod 4 месяца назад

Thank you for getting right into the topic , great video

@michealkelli5788 Год назад

Great video, very informational. Double thumbs up. Thank you!

@Clint694 Месяц назад

thanks for your video. It has been so helpful. Buying resolve right now !

@JeramieSaito Год назад

Very detailed and informative! Thank you!

@CrabbyChrissy 2 года назад

I really appreciated the demo to see performance, it definitely helped to prove your point, especially since all the research I have done so far said that 8GB of RAM was definitely too slow for editing videos. I’m not making 4K videos, so based on what I’ve seen in this video, the AIR M1 would be able to do everything I need and is 💯 an upgrade from what I have been using. Definitely saving this video for later too for some of the quick tips sprinkled in.

@animeshmahato Год назад

The best explanation till now!

@HangingwithEva 2 года назад

Nice 👍 thanks for all your awesome videos

@pedramfarjoud Год назад

you are amazing, i watches so many videos but you showed exactyl what i was looking for. Thank you very much

@KankukanAiki 2 года назад

It was absolutely useful. Thank you mate 🙏

@wattlecup 2 года назад

It's been about 6 months since i am watching your channel. I can't explain in words here how much your video means to me. I've travelled more than 40,000 miles on motorcycle and i am feeling bit sad that i was late to know about davinci and especially you. But it's never late, i've invested 6 months and i think i am ready to go now only because of you. Speed editor is good but it's gonna take about couple of weeks to getting used to it. Mr. Alex THANKYOU SO MUCH for this amazing work. Love from india.

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Thank you very much! ☺️☺️👍

@chandranshusharma8671 Год назад

is MacBook Air M1 worth it for Davinci Resolve? and what about cracked version of Adobe Premiere Pro

@blushinginheels 2 года назад

So very helpful! Thank you!

@italoamerighi3974 7 месяцев назад

great video mate! Thanks

@priyeshsingh1545 Год назад

i just purchased the Mac air M1 after watching your video. really struggled with my PC and free version of DR. should get it today and hoping i can get some editing done on my video podcast.

@50shadesofNV 2 года назад

Great job by you in this video, many of us are in same boat or debating going to pro from air

@Coreyvan38 Год назад

Thanks this was great!

@jmac2050 2 года назад

This what i needed to see some Fusion and Chroma Keying in use.

@vovantiensy4940 2 года назад

watching this on a Macbook Pro m1 2020 and I have no regrets so far !!!

@markelyzerchavez Год назад

I'm a window user since birth, but today I'm planning to buy this MacBook m1 air over the m2 because now i edit 4k 10 bit 422 and I hope this will ease my life in editing coz my old window laptop can't edit the higher video file size. Tnx for the review

@IkonicLionProductions 2 года назад

Sweet ! Thanks

@kaizen4smart 2 года назад

great video again Alex, thanks a lot. I am struggling with that question if the M1 pro is worth the extra cost since the M1 pro is on the market. You give a clear and easy to follow argumentation, thanks again. just ….. Apple is unfortunately great in the marketing and selling stuff to us. I am playing around with Fusion a bit but not massively. will that be fine with „just“ the M1 air? being honest to myself, I am seeking reasons to buy the bigger, faster, nicer, …. damn marketing 😉

@uncleanAlibertine1 2 года назад

seeing this in tritium 4k 10 bit play timeline playing together makes me relaxed :). Wonder how much better would things would be when using proxy pro res files.... thank you for showing not only export in m1!

@Robroy333 2 года назад

Love my new 8GB base model M1 Air ! It kicks my big PC's butt; editing in Davinci and After Effects! 4k:)~ Best computer I've had and the Cheapest!

@luucamNY Месяц назад

I do a lot of editing on the go working with proxy on the laptop and then when I’m ready to do the heavy lifting of the project I do at home on my workstation

@_sonic_tv Год назад

Buen video. Gracias

@RealSebus 2 года назад

This gives me a little bit of peace of mind as I ordered MBA 8/256 and ipadpro11 instead of MB14. Still waiting for it to be delivered. Hopefully this year. Could you please show how it acts with a little bit of fusion?

@thechunkydrummer Год назад

Brilliant video! I use a lot of titles/fusion transitions/your magic zoom etc… Does this machine cope ok with basic fusion stuff like that? I’ve heard these are great until fusion needs more RAM?

@peterguava 2 года назад

I m using the the Mac mini M1 8 GB and I m super happy with it. I love how this cheap but awesome machine handles DaVinci Resolve even using 4 K timeline

@FedericoSchiavoneArt 2 года назад

How does it handle log profile 10 bit videos in 4k?

@peterguava 2 года назад

@@FedericoSchiavoneArt no issues with 10 bit. Only heavy fusion work will slow it down it down.

@FedericoSchiavoneArt 2 года назад

@@peterguava impressive! I'm with a 9700k and etc 2060 and sometimes I have lags on colored 10 bit clips, wow

@peterguava 2 года назад

@@FedericoSchiavoneArt again this little machine impresses me every day a bit more. Can't wait to try out Mac studio with even a more capable chipset for around 2 k

@FedericoSchiavoneArt 2 года назад

I'm new to apple so I think that this for me is good enough 😁 maybe some day the MacBook pro, i don't know if to wait for m2 or get the m1

@stevecahill9106 2 года назад

Great review. A bit concerned about nits brightness and audio. Audio output to external speakers takes care of that bit.

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

The Brightness is still pretty good. Most laptops are around the 300 Nits mark, anything around 400/500 nits is really solid. The 1000 nits on the Pro is really high compared to most.

@stevecahill9106 2 года назад

@@MrAlexTech Thank you for the clarification.

@Leprutz 2 года назад

There are some good speakers for low money nowaday that will fix that problem asap. And as for brightness, just darken the room a bit. lol.

@Lofyne 2 года назад

Yes, they are good! I have the same spec MacBook Pro M1. Over the past year it has essentially replaced my big Ryzen 3950 64gb + RTX 2070 PC, which I only use for 1080P client work now. That thing would always give me the GPU memory full error. The 8gb M1 though, it just works. No errors, rarely crashes. Currently working on 3d scene in Fusion with bluescreen footage, 3d planes, lights, shadows etc. Slow to render, but still smooth enough to edit and composite without errors.

@Leprutz 2 года назад

So if I am not such a heavy fusion user you would still recommend the 8GB ram instead of 16? Cause I am thinking of getting myself macbook air M1 16GB 1TB for 1900€ max.

@Lofyne 2 года назад

@@Leprutz From what I have found, Fusion struggles with really large images. I was working with a project that had an image over 12k pixels wide, and maxed out the memory with that. Best to go for 16gb

@EstiloInAction 11 месяцев назад

i have the exact same spec as you on my big rig. Thinking about the m1 Air for $799

@DigitalNinja3 5 месяцев назад

Great video. Thanks. I'm on a Macbook Air M1 8Gb. Scouring the RU-vids to push its limits.

@moncho33 2 года назад

I have this exact configuration and even though Final Cut Pro is where I edit, it has been more than sufficient for that and using Lightroom and Photoshop every once in a while. If you do video and photo edit occasionally, the 8gb RAM is more than enough. But If you want to future proof your purchase and are able to afford it, go for the 16gb of RAM. Now with the holidays, there should be some great offers around Amazon or other authorized retailers.

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Yeah agreed! If you get the 16gb then go for it, but it still surprises me how well the 8Gb does

@s-trapYT 5 месяцев назад

That's an awesome performance from such a small notebook. If you were to keep only one (Air or Pro), would that be the Air?

@Kamikaze3557 10 месяцев назад

I have the MacBook Air M1, (I think I’ve had it 2+ years) I maxed out the drive capacity and ram. It does great with DR still too slow for me on Topaz video AI, so I’m guessing it’s really really slow on other laptops. Thinking about getting an Air with the M2 chip. One for rendering one for editing.

@dutchtruckerrh 2 года назад

Helpfull thanks

@dutchtruckerrh 2 года назад

A Question : i want buy a mac m1 pro 16 gb! İs it really comfortable with davinci?

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Take what your saw in this video and imagine it about twice as fast in most/all aspects. See more here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RE2sW1A1g2c.html

@definingslawek4731 2 года назад

I have a base spec m1 air and I was worrying maybe I made the wrong choice with not getting 16gb ram, as for example lightroom runs super super slow. Changing between images in the film strip can take like 2 seconds and loading effects after manipulating the sliders can take a bit too. I was concerned maybe I would have had a much better experience if I ponied up a little more. So this video was very useful for me as I see you also have the 8gb ram. I suppose lightroom is just slow or the problem is cpu bound, which I can live with.

@Freddd95 Год назад

This surprises me as my Macbook Air which is the same model and same specs as yours, struggles with 10-bit 4K h.264 in Premiere Pro. So I assume that Resolve just generally requires less computer power than Premiere? It seems like you focus mainly on editing here, but do you think it is good enough for semi-professional color grading in Resolve as well? Thanks!

@DesertCookie Год назад

I would consider an Air if it had a larger screen. 14" is my absolute minimum and after having tasted 16" with my Dell 7610 (15"-size but taller aspect ratio) I don't think I could even go back to that. I'm just waiting for used prices to drop and get the cheapest 16" M1 Pro I can find within a reasonable time. My Dell handles 4K H.265 10bit 4:2:0 fine but with heavy color grading it really struggles. And even in normal office use it doesn't even last three hours. The M1's media engine would be a great treat to help me with future 6.2K H.265 4:2:2 out of my Fuji X-H2s.

@lhowles3 2 года назад

I bought a Macbook Air (been Windows user for life - 48 yrs old!) after watching your initial review and I do simple stuff on the free version of Davinci Resolve and am blown away by what I got for my money. Will use your timeline proxy trick to speed things up but so impressed with the machine a month into using it. Your videos are even better value for money than the Air so thanks so much for making them! Any recommendations for external storage as I only got the 256gb version (which is so far sufficient anyway)?

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Hey! Glad it's working out for you 🙂👍 yeaaah I use a Samsung T5 SSD with mine and it's been great. This video was edited on the air, with the video files sat on the external SSD 🙂👍

@paulcain548 2 года назад

The Samsung T5 is the best SSD you can get. Perfect for my M1 MacBook Air and Davinci Resolve 👍🏻

@meresafarname Год назад

hey is macbook air m1 still good for free davinci

@whereisgabri3641 Год назад

I was considering buying the Pro with 16GB RAM and to be fair I was a bit reluctant at the idea of spending more than 2k on a laptop. I am relieved to see that Davinci Resolve runs smoothly on a Air 8GB as well! Thanks for sharing your experience, great video!

@DesertCookie Год назад

Considering the Pro is about 70% faster with the better CPU/GPU it should absolutely shred 4K, 6K, even 8K projects.

@LusRetroSource 2 года назад

Ha ha! Just yesterday I bought an M1 Air specifically for Davinci Resolve editing. This video further makes me feel better about my purchase. Great job!

@biggenius0891 Год назад

I’m actually in the market to upgrade. I use Resolve for short films and looking to go into editing features as well. Having said that, I’m assuming I’d need the M1 Pro over the Air correct?

@2392youngmoney Год назад

How have you found the performance? How is your swap usage?

@SheikAshii Год назад

That’s crazy. I remember editing and rendering 15m videos in 14 hours and hoping it didn’t crash over night while I slept. This was in 2011 😂. Not that long ago haha

@SeanSeesMedia 2 года назад

I just picked up a very very gently used 8gb/8gb 512gb macbook pro m1 2 days ago and for the price I am ecstatic to have scored this machine. I was very close to ordering an apple refurbished macbook air m1 but wound up getting this for a good amount less than the air would have cost me here in Australia. This only has 10 battery cycles and has apple care+ coverage til mid 2024. If I didn't have this deal fall into my lap, I would have Def gone macbook air m1 and other than those thermal throttling instances, I am confident the macbook air could go toe to toe with the mbp m1 all day long. The lack of ports on the m1 bodies is definitely the only real "downside" and down the road I will get a new m1 variation or m2 or whatever and hopefully get a great port selection again, but for now I'm gonna live that dongle life. Thanks for the continued high quality work. Been following this channel for years and love to see how you've continually upped your game year after year.

@sasanmanprinceofpersia1233 Год назад

The M1 air with 16gb ram and 512 gb ssd costs me around 1500 Euros, the M2 Air with the same config costs almost 2000 Euros just the same as the 14 M1 pro. I have started video editing as a hobby and currently use my desktop pc (R5 5600x, 3080, 32gb ram) for that but I want something as well for the go since I am often on the go. Which model would you recommend me? I want to keep the device at least for 5 yrs.

@youngman44 Год назад

Late to the game here, Alex, but thanks! The one thing I really want to see in reviews of the Air is not "rendering" which everyone seems to focus on. I don't care about that all that much. What I want to see is how well it does in Fusion. That (along with editing post-color edits) seems to be the biggest problem I've had on lower end Macs.

@spaceghostcqc2137 Год назад

Also want to know about this. Looking to either get an M2 or build a zen 4 pc...

@sotonin Год назад

It's not good at fusion. I just ordered a max and i'll do some more testing. I was able to hit a wall very very quickly learning video editing on the air. I had to upgrade resolve to continue, but even after that I can still choke the air up soooo easily with only a single 4k timeline (15 mins or so of footage) with a single magic mask. So yeah. not good. unless all you wanna do is basic hard cuts all the time and nothing fancy. I am going to try to put together a video after i get my new laptop to compare the two. but it's very pathetically sad how quickly you can hit a wall on this machine.

@youngman44 Год назад

@@sotonin Thanks! That is just the info I was looking for.

@EwenBell 2 года назад

Totally with you. I got mine a year ago and I've been doing 4K edits in DaVinci Resolve and 96MP stills in Capture One and zero drama. I love having all day power on a single charge, and still small enough to tuck into my sling bag. I did get the 16GB version though. Also I love that I can actually have it on my lap for emails and web browsing without cooking me alive.

@2392youngmoney Год назад

How is your swap usage when using resolve?

@DIGIHENDRIX300 Год назад

Is yours the MacBook Air (Retina, 13 inch 2020) 256 GB? And if so do you do 4k edits with overlays and fusion fx? Music videos and short films preferably. I’m tempted to buy one but no one seems to be using it for these things I mentioned.

@EwenBell Год назад

@@DIGIHENDRIX300 it's the best first M1 Air, with 16GB ram. Yes I'm doing a lot of fusion plus animated titles. These slow down playback considerably, so I save that stuff for last. Mostly work in 4K timelines.

@sleepyatdawn7648 2 года назад

I mean of course it's still great for 4k footage as it was last year.

@GracefulEmbroidery 4 месяца назад

Do you still recommend this for video editing? Or are you using something else.

@solotaxidiotis 9 месяцев назад

When it comes to choosing an apple device, it always confuses me because of the way they price it. Probably you are the only youtuber who made it very clear about the sweet spot (16Gb, 512, M1) I was thinking of buying ipad air (m2) with a magic keyboard but was not sure how efficient it will be to edit using Davinci Resolve. Then my second choice was to go for Macbook pro 14inch (M1 pro) and again i was feeling that its an overkill. This video gave me alot of clarity. Thank you so much ))

@mavchb 2 года назад

Hi, that is a great video! I was wondering if buying a MacBook Pro makes sense. On a completely different topic: can you make a video about the "de-noise" effect. I am not quite sure when I should use it.

@flipnap2112 2 года назад

resolves denoiser (especially the studio version" is the best there is. de noising is simple. if your video is shot in low light and has noise, it will help. noise comes from when sensors dont have enough light and the gain is boosted. this is like the old days of film, for low light they used film with larger grains to help capture light, but the film was grainy. same concept.

@edoardodepiccoli3004 Год назад

I own a base model m1 macbook air, still gotta put it to the test but it has been amazing for everything i do on it

@meresafarname Год назад

which davinci version?

@edoardodepiccoli3004 Год назад

@@meresafarname 18

@meresafarname Год назад

@@edoardodepiccoli3004 is 18 working good

@edoardodepiccoli3004 Год назад

@@meresafarname yes, but I still make proxies everytime for getting even faster timeline speed. I don't know how a native 1080p (or 4k) timeline would perform in heavy video editing scenarios. I edited a short and simple 4k video on finalcut and it went smoothly. Took 8 minutes to export 5 min footage tho.

@meresafarname Год назад

@@edoardodepiccoli3004 how is 1080p editing working?

@trikytrik696969 2 года назад

You look so much like the guy from Ozark who owns the funeral home. Great video

@HviteVinger 2 года назад

As a desktop PC guy for 30 years, this little chap is really interesting. Actually considering byuing it to edit on the fly. How does sharing projects work in Resolve? As in edit the project on both a PC and Mac?

@no66 2 года назад

Same as you, I took the leap, editing is now fun again. MacBook Air 8gb. It just works

@EASYROLLIN 2 года назад

Please start your bodybuilding channel! I can see those biceps screamin for it!

@asianstud7 2 года назад

LOLOL

@DanielSilva-te1ww 2 года назад

I have the same MacBook Air. It worked great with 4K h.264 10bit 422 playback until I added a call out without tracking. I’m thinking about trying an all-I codec but I assume that’s not the problem. Whatever’s happening it’s also maxing out my ram.I’m going to try a few different things to speed up my workflow, otherwise, I’ll get the 16 inch M1 max, 3500 usd :(

@sotonin Год назад

The first thing you can do is upgrade to paid resolve studio. You will see a MASSIVE increase in power. But fusion is still the achilles heel of this laptop. You can still very quickly and easily choke it up and make your renders take multiple hours. It's not hard. Waiting on my new max to ship currently

@monojoy4270 2 года назад

When does it really gets hot?

@harrisjudoclub 9 месяцев назад

How does it handle light fusion effects. Animated logos etc

@TheDanzfreak 2 года назад

Ei man nice Vid but seems weird it's garbled using 4K res it only works on 1080P

@petermclennan6781 2 года назад

The demo project playback is very impressive. I'm assuming that everything is on the internal storage, right? Can we expect anything close to that level of performance using an outboard (Lightning) drive?

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Yeaah everything in this demo was performed with files on the internal drive but, you get practically the exact same performance using an external drive. I use a Samsung SSD and it's just as good. Having the ability to get the same performance running an external SSD and being on battery is the big selling point of these devices for me.

@petermclennan6781 2 года назад

@@MrAlexTech Astonishing. Thanks again.

@tonycaine5930 2 года назад

I was never a Apple laptop fan because of the lack of ports and common sense designs. It took Apple a very long time to bring back the SD card slot which is standard on most PC laptops. I may go for the 14" Pro, the sweet spot.

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Honestly, same. Plus they always offered basically the same internals as Windows devices but with considerable 'Apple' tax. The Apple tax still exists BUT these devices are at least now unique and, generally or at least in specificaly areas, more capable.

@isaihernandez4136 Год назад

What setting are you using with your m1? I cannot get mine to run the titles or transition as smoothly as your do and I have proxy half resolution enable. My model is the exact same macbook air model. By the way, thanks for all your content and help. Your content is pure gold man!

@sotonin Год назад

He has studio. There is a MASSIVE difference in power between free and paid versions. I'm not sure the exact reason, i've been told the free version cant fully utilize the gpus on m1. But a 3 hour render with nothing changed renders in 13 mins on the studio resolve.

@isaihernandez4136 Год назад

@@sotonin thanks for the information!

@biswajit07 Год назад

@@sotonin no, he also showed the same demonstration on the free version and those hefty title & transitions ran just as well as it did on the studio version.

@sotonin Год назад

@@biswajit07 No. Those are not hefty animations my dude. What i stated is not conjecture it's a cold hard fact. If you don't have studio and only have the free version on an m1 laptop it's severely crippled. I still have the project file that takes 3 hours to render on free version and 12 mins to render on studio version. Don't talk about what you don't know about. No hardware or changes were made between the free vs studio renders so it's not up to debate about what the difference was between the render times.

@LeeHarris 2 года назад

For gods sake, if it works and it's cheap it is worth it. I got an M1 Mac Mini this year to replace my old 27 inch iMac that cost 3 times as much, are the new Mx/pros, etc, better? Maybe, but for fuck's sake this humble M1 MM works great and left me loads of pocket change to spend how I saw fit.

@Kryssthealien Год назад

DaVinci 18 requirement is 16G Ram, so I'm a bit confused. I don't want to buy a laptop to have to upgrade it 6 month later...

@Freddd95 Год назад

Help needed! I have macbook air M1 8GB and my 4K 10bit footage (H.264) is lagging A LOT in Resolve 18! No fusion effects, just color grading (about five or six nodes). Rendering cache takes way too long as well. Any tips?

@CleClark 2 года назад

I still find that I get small hiccups with fusion transitions (In a 1080p timeline)with my base model MacBook Air M1, but everything else is absolutely KILLER compared to any PC I've ever used! edit: gonna see what I can do to optimize my timeline more and replicate your results. Seems like crash zoom with motion blur and flash are more intensive. Tho... My footage was 4k 60p... So that may be the REAL hiccup. 😅

@ProducedbyRIFAT Год назад

Did you find any work around ?

@meresafarname Год назад

so which davinci version are you on?

@julietaanaut 2 года назад

Hi! what version of da vinci resolve did you use? thanks!

@bereal9464 11 месяцев назад

could you tell me Macbook Air m1 16Gb works good with Davince Resolve 4k video?

@richrollin4867 9 месяцев назад

After using an M1 Mac for 18 months I’ve finally gone back to Windows. In terms of hardware and performance the Mac was superb, but MacOS largely ruined the experience for me - it almost put me off editing full stop.

@Bo_Hazem 2 года назад

Would love to know how it'll react to Sony a7S III 4K@120fps 4:2:2 H.265 as this is the only file that chokes my "was" extremely powerful 2019 desktop. Must note that I don't use proxies as well for that certain file I need to optimize media for smooth playback, but same quality at 24-60fps it's buttery smooth. Keep in mind that my PC is AMD-based and at that time those decoding operations aren't HW-accelerated like the one here and newer CPU's. Would eant this one for my studio which is a few km away from home.

@integrumcontrarium8221 Год назад

Where to find projects after exporting them?

@AzureBlox Год назад

I'm on a macbook pro but for some reason I can't upload my videos from davinci resolve that I spent hours editing for my yt channel ):

@ace2279 2 года назад

MrAlexTech have you had any issues with Davinci Resolve 17.4.2 on your M1 MacBook Pro 14 inch? I'm getting freezes when opening the app and freezes when using Fusion Titles on the edit page. All simple timelines but really frustrating.

@DumbBritAbroad Год назад

when i open up my project, it does not look like yours @7.32 the left hand collumn for effects?

@JulaVision Год назад

Anybody knows how the Air M1 handles Black Magic Raw 4k footage?

@DumbBritAbroad Год назад

how come on davinci when i'm using my computer with a bigger screen, the bottom left i have all my favourite tabs. but on the macbook on a smaller screen i do not?

@Jicosai 2 года назад

Hi bro, I am planning on replacing my windows pc because I will travel now a lot this time and I am editing on DaVinci Resolve, what will you recommend? the m1 air 8gb, 8core cpu and 8 core gpu 256 gb? or I will go to 512GB? the 7 core gpu is it good? Thanks a lot

@DIGIHENDRIX300 Год назад

Would I be able to fully edit 4k black magic footage with a MacBook Air (Retina, 13 inch 2020) 256 GB laptop .. I want to make music videos with overlays and fx and such.. also some Fusion… trying to find the best option without overly spending.. please help if you can. Thanks.

@crowking76 2 года назад

MrAlex, did you find some project where 8GB of RAM wasn't enough? Have you reviewed if OS isn't swapping memory on SSD disk on some more complex projects?

@flipnap2112 2 года назад

I think swapping is the core of shared memory.

@crowking76 2 года назад

@@flipnap2112 Sure, and when you start seeing extensive continuous swapping and CPU waiting for I/O (iowait), it shows that RAM amount is insufficient. You may not notice it at glance.

@flipnap2112 2 года назад

@@crowking76 I dont think the swap works the same way on SOC setups as does on intel systems. I havent done that much exploration into the details of how M1s share memory but Ill keep an eye out. oddly I saw the 8 gig ram models slightly over perform against the 16 gig models. Edit, meant to say "over perform"

@crowking76 2 года назад

@@flipnap2112 I am happy to read your notes 👍

@otmanalami6621 Год назад

is it good to edit 1080p on 120FPS? thanks ^^

@federicovalmassoni3827 2 года назад

Hi, too video! I need to produce TimeLapse clip from 1.200 about photos in sequence and than edit about 20 clips of 20sec each in 4K 60fps with colour and pan and zoom. Is it ok for me?

@beaudanner 2 года назад

I get 4 hours. I just push my m1 air too hard. I do nothing. I'm not trying to edit 8k raw footage. But I have chrome running and maybe some other apps and it's a bad idea. Even just chrome with a few apps and no DR and I'm lucky to get 4 hours of battery. Apple assures me that it's fine and it passes all hardware tests. But it crashes all the time and I can't figure it out.

@ChibiHasan Год назад

I feel like Apple RU-vidrs should really be mentioning that the reason Mac's need less RAM right now is that they're using much faster LPDDR5 RAM (same RAM as a dedicated GPU (GPUs use LPDDR6 tho), so you can't upgrade either) it has to be sautered to the motherboard for the additional buses. Maybe y'all shouldn't and it's just me, but y'all had me thinking Mac OS/Unix was just that efficient 😂 and that all it needed was half of the same RAM. I felt kind of silly when I learned the difference

@eprohoda 2 года назад

insaen

@somelaveenguy6822 2 года назад

Yes, but what about the MacBook Air most of us have... 8GB RAM, 7 GPU cores, and 256 GB SSD?

@Chteboof2crew 2 года назад

Hey have you tried rendering on the free version? Any differences? I'm asking because I use the free version (at the moment) and notice that may gpu is at 100% while Exporting... Meaning I would not get faster Exporting time with Studio?

@sotonin Год назад

The free version is severely gimped compared to studio. I literally had a super basic project with some fusion titles and it was taking 3 hours to render. I finally gave in and upgraded to studio, the same project rendered in 13 mins.

@TienChoihk 5 месяцев назад

@@sotoninhi there! I am on M1 Pro for some particle fusion effects. The drop frame comes very quickly. Does the studio version help? Thanks!

@GaryCunninghamyouareenough 2 года назад

🙏🏻🤟🙏🏻

@ananthums8970 Год назад

isn't it the MacBook pro M1 ... not air right

@sotonin Год назад

I see this all over the place. But it's really only true under specific conditions. Davinci Resolve free sucks ASS on this laptop if you try to implement any fusion stuff. If you are just hard cutting 4k footage, it's fine and will be great. But you will hit a wall of waiting for renders very very quickly if you try to learn fusion. Unfortunately it's the limited nature of resolves free version that is the first barrier. Upgrade to full version and it suddenly can use the GPU for renders and a 3 hour render turns into 12 mins. The air with a paid version of resolve is pretty darn good, but you will still be able to easily choke it up with fusion (magic mask anybody?) and then you are back up to 3+ hour renders. All in all, the air is only good for very basic editing. Go with a pro / max if you ever want to learn the advanced stuff.

@odinsfall5675 2 года назад

forgive me if i missed thsi in the video, but do you ever start a project on the PC then finish it on the MAC or vice versa? I know medi mangement might be tricky but doable with the right setup

@MrAlexTech 2 года назад

Yeaah often. It's surprisingly easy using an external SSD. I'll do a video on it 🙂👍

@odinsfall5675 2 года назад

@@MrAlexTech perfect thank you 🙏

@odinsfall5675 2 года назад

@@MrAlexTech Quick query, do you use the SSD as the database or simply copy the files you need over? just trying to work out the formatting etc