By far the most common comment has been that using Resolve Studio rather than the free version would have changed the results because of it's GPU support. Hardware acceleration is only missing from the free Windows version of Resolve, on the Mac it is built in.
@@rano12321 Yes, it's true, free only has DECODE for H.264, however, the Studio has both ENCODE and DECODE hardware acceleration for both H.264/265. There are a few other features that are only available in Studio and not the free version, but you DO get 95% of studio in the free. Good news is, a $295 or so one time payment and you get the updates, I think for life. That said, you can also buy accessories through Black Magic to help offset the software support.
I've been using Final Cut for 6 years now, for me there was no other software that could match it, but I'm amazed on how Resolve its close to being my favorite now. And premiere.. well thanks to Premiere I dont have hair right now.
Yap I agree to that there's no need to argue or take side on which is the better/best and faster apps or a piece of tech you use. It's all about what is your preference, comfortability and needs on the apps/tech you used.
Final Cut is a good reliable editor. I don’t have anything against it, but it’s limited when it comes to motion graphics, and I don’t understand why Apple can’t make it integrate better with Motion. I use Resolve because not only is it buttery smooth and fast, it’s a powerhouse when it comes to compositing and color grading. Premiere is just a dumpster fire I gave up on over a year ago because it’s too cluttered, unstable, and slow.
Divinci, and FCP smoke premier and a joy to use. FCP for me was easier to learn, but divinci is the one I wanna get better at as I get more into film making and color grading.
Buuut in resolve you can export every clip on the timeline as an individual clip - great for grading and creating proxies, or for dalies exports from a DIT. Resolve is simply much better at both transcoding and exporting - which makes sense as that is it's core functionality from before it wanted to be an NLE.
9:40 Final Cut can totally export a clip from the timeline. We got that around 3 updates ago. You just have to select a range from the timeline with the Range tool and hit export. That way It will only export the range you selected.
I think you misunderstand what I was saying, Resolve allows you to export all the clips in a time as new files with handles on the beginning and end. So effectively our have just the good bits and you can either bring those into another NLE or archive them. In final cut, you just have one finished clip
At the 8:46 mark you recommend going for the M1 Max rather than the M1 Pro for the H.264/ProRes decoders, but both chips have those decoders, it's just that the Max has double the dedicated accelerators of the M1 Pro. Great video though, somewhat surprising results.
I find it insane that DaVinci Resolve (the free version) is beating out FCP and Premiere Pro in quite a few of these tests, that’s super impressive. I am still using the free version of Resolve (on an M1 Mac mini 16GB) and I haven’t really hit the ceiling yet (except for a few features that would be nice such as denoiser). I switched from Premiere Pro about a year ago and I honestly haven’t looked back since, great bit of software! Would be interested in seeing how well Fusion works with the M1 Pro and Max chips, as it is quite slow for most things on the M1 basic chip. Nice tests and great video, Tyler! 👌
Sarah Dietchty did a video about these machines and said the Fusion functions do not work that well with the M1 Max, that it's one of the few things that slows it down.
“No fans” Just like Adobe after switching to FCPX and an M1 machine 🤠 Jokes aside, great video! I was a long time Premiere user on a custom built PC and after picking up an M1 Pro machine and swapping to FCPX, i’ll never go back. I solely edit on my Mac now and that’s coming from a hardcore windows user!
Little note. Also the scale of the window impacts timeline playback I’ve noticed. I tend to leave mine at 50% often. That works better than “fit”. (I mainly use premiere.)
Thank you so so much for going through the stress of putting your computer through this! I did not have the patience, which is how I found you. I lowkey have a crush on you, because of your level of patience hahaha. Thanks for these comparisons.
Something to consider: the widespread use of high-quality stock footage and images is probably not doing society any favours. All those images of perfectly presented, shiny happy families laughing together may sell Coca Cola, but I think they also depress people. Everyone knows they're fake, false, insincere. But, because we're silly chimps, we still think those fake images are aspirational. That's really destructive. Anyway, back to the topic at hand...
Hey Tyler, if you could start again, would you choose the Resolve or stay with FCP? I've just ordered my first Macbook Pro. At one side I found FCP more intuitive. At the other for my hobby non-commercial use Resolve would made more sense, altough it has a steeper learn curve...
Everybody’s always making videos about what software is faster, what tips to make you a faster editor, do this to be faster do that to be faster… Faster faster faster. Fast has nothing to do with quality. I’m an incredibly fast editor and I could care less about being fast. I care about being good. And besides, the faster you edit the less money you make. Being nuanced and skillful is way more important than being fast.
Hands down Final Cut is going to perform the best, but I do think running screen recordings and running off of an external drive massively hindered the other two applications. These internal SSD's are insanely fast and definitely help with performance.
I expected it to be more hands down that it was, and working from external drives is a must for all video editors. Also I tested the exports both on internal and external. The difference was actually pretty insignificant compared to other variables
Please don't use the free version of resolve with two paid software, use the studio version of Resolve while comparing. It's not just about GPU support not all codecs are supported on the free version. All the other videos I've seen resolve studio demolished both final cut and premiere on M1 max.
One thing I'd like to mention is that with premiere pro you can use media encoder thus allowing you to render out multiple videos at once. Other than that this is a great video
You can export part of timeline if FC! You should choose this part by yellow markers(I don’t no correct name) and than press share (export button in right top angle)
EDIT: resolve only uses the hardware decoders in studio version, it performs a LOT better if you use the studio version original comment: I use final cut because the magnetic timeline makes me edit like 4x faster and I have way more fun editing
This isn’t the studio version of the resolve, so probably not the best comparison there. If I’m not mistaken, studio has some extra encoding features as well as GPU acceleration.
Good afternoon from myself in the UK. I upgraded from my M1 iMAC to the Studio M1 Ultra three months ago and just returned it yesterday to Apple after quite a few issues with it. I've just picked up the 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max. I already use PP but I'm considerrrrrrrrringgggggg (deep breath) moving to FCP. There's a link in this video to a comparison but unfortunately its from 2019. Do you have an updated video please as since that time i'm sure both software will have improved massively. Thanks so much. Lee
Had a hard time finding parameters in the export comparison. What time of the video, etc. I tend to just balpark in length of time of video with length of time of export.
Great job man ! I found out recently about your channel through your video about grading in FCP, and subscribed immediately ! I'm a video editor (though I've recently cut an american feature film), and I've been cutting on FCP since 2013 on the same 27 inch iMac with memory 32 Gb. My computer has been struggling with dailies for a while now, and can't handle 4K smoothly, forcing me to create proxies every time. I've been contemplating buying a macbook pro M1 max - even more since I watched that video - but I'm tempted to wait for an hypothetical new iMac for even better performances. What do you think ? Anyway, keep up the great work !
Am I the only one that thinks this a bit misleading? If you run the projects on an external (ssd) harddrive, it doesn’t use the internal ssd memory, right? Am I wrong here?
As soon as you said you're not running the Studio version of Resolve I checked out as it's not a proper comparison then. The Studio version is optimized to take advantage of more powerful machines like the M1 Max. I'm running a 2020 iMac 27" and I can easily playback in a 4K timeline multiple videos of 4.6K BlackmagicRAW. Can't remember the exact number since this was a music video I edited earlier this year, and I had at least 6 full takes of the main song being sung, but as well a few extra snippets recorded for specific song moments and extra b-roll shots. The song started with a long Steadicam 20-30 second shot before we got into the other multiple locations full song shots at different angles... Either way, my old Intel iMac handled this phenomenally months ago. I run the Studio version of Resolve. No matter what it works better than Premiere. I'm not going back to FCP again. Resolve is hands down the best color grading software and none of the others compare.
I’m aware of the difference on Windows but can you confirm that the hardware acceleration isn’t active in the free version on Macs? Because from my research this was a difference between the windows and Mac versions.
editing is so much more efficient in FCP. and besides Resolve can't use ProRES RAW (unless you do a complicated conversion) - deal breaker for me. Everything has too many options in Resolve - I'm sure that is good for some but another complication for others.
If I’m not mistaken you said resolve wasn’t studio version. That’s really unfair comparison. There’s a huge difference between the studio and free version especially when it comes to encoders. So you probably update this video with the studio version.
GUYS PLS HELP! I use 10bit 4k 60fps or 5k 30fps 10bit with lots of effects and stuff. I come from an i9 32gb gtx2060 laptop and premiere choked it out o___o I sold it and am super torn between the base 14" and the 13" M1. I actually want the 13 Inch, mainly for the price and there are a lot of people saying it's definitely powerful enough. What are your guys thoughts?
I’m sure I’m not the only one, but resolve studio would be the best comparison, I never had a good experience with the free version, but the studio version outperforms fcpx in my experience even on an intel mac
You made a small mistake , you didn't use studio version of resolve which means, gpu acceleration is not enabled that's why Da vanci resolve losing here and there-Not a fair battel...(note only studio version if Da vinci resolve can utilize the gpu fully.)
Tyler, Is it really that awful to edit photos and video on the 14" screen? I've only seen one creator prefer the 14" for this kind of work. Just curious.
Good morning Tyler! Just got my M1 Mac, and Final cut. I've been LOVING these, but I miss the adjustment layer from premiere. Do you know or could you explain , or relate to a video that explains this? Thanks!
Adjustment layers aren't built into final cut but you can install them for free as titles, bunch of them floating around like this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2jLPEkKmg8w.html
There are adjustment layer plug ins for free online! Or just use a title from the titles section and delete the text- you can then add effects to the title that will show over what’s below
Could the SSD external drive be a limit factor on the playback of the timelines? What if you edited purely on the internal drive? Would that be a more smooth experience on the timeline?
@@stalman I'm assuming the drive used here was the Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD v2. Also it is not the fastest drive around, you can DIY enclosure with an NVME and get higher speeds on Thunderbolt 3 and 4.
If you were just getting started, which would you choose? In the video, you said the DaVinci Resolve has all these neat features you don’t have in FCP, so now I’m wondering what the best starting point would be for me as a beginner.
I hear Resolve straight up can’t handle ProRes very well. As it was seen here resolve beats the others when playing Canon RAW LT but loses ProRes even tho ProRes is easier.
I bought the entry level 14 inch, what is seriously the best video editing app? I know final cut works best with it but I want to know what’s the best out of the 3 as apps.
I have bought both licenses, I just felt that to get the same functionality out of fcp you need to buy some paid addons. And the bonus hardware speed editor for the price of the davinci license is nice. FCP wins for ease of use for sure. I am a noob with editing though, so what do I know..
@@stalman That’s a good point Tyler, if you’re working out of your spare bedroom with a cobbled together system of hard drives and SD cards Premiere and Final Cut are fantastic. If you need an integrated system for capture, play out, automation and information management Avid thrives. Also, their free version is top notch.
You can definitely export clips from the timeline in FCPX. Happened to me by accident (I’m thinking you need to have the clips selected and then hit export?) anyway, here is a different solution: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bxTsAyfH0vs.html
