Finder, right click on the toolbar area and add the path icon to your finder toolbar - then you can navigate paths. Also alt right click on a folder or file to copy the path. CMD SHIFT G to get a prompt to navigate to any path you type or paste in, which supports path completion.
It's interesting to see you try a Mac os computer Tom. I personally find battery life of the new M series to be the most impressive thing. Being able to edit videos for hours while on battery is sweet.
That is about standard, a rubbish alienware gave up the ghost the other day, it was about 12 years old and those systems are badly built. (also it had a terribly small hard drive which is what died).
Instead of the path, you can use spotlight or labels. Tags are like a multidimensional directory structure. You can tag stuff with multiple labels and then find them where ever they are,. Labels for place, camera, event, type etc. Very useful
The CalDigit TS4 is probably the dongle/hub many pros use. If you need to hook up a lot of devices simultaneously, that's the one to look at, although it's pricey.
Peace be with you! Thank for your honest/unbiased review. Shoot a flick with your iPhone. Apple's iPhone "Pro" models can save video to ProRes. Very many film makers use iPhones. Thanks again.
For testing the dongles & external drive speeds, one potential option is Blackmagic RAW Speed Test. That exists for both platforms, and it will give a lot of useful information for the type of work you do. That said it's not guaranteed to be a one size fits all test, but it is probably the best, simplest solutions for testing for video editing.
In Finder you can enable Show Path Bar from the View menu to show your full path which you can copy path info from. To go to a folder, select Go To Folder from the Go menu or Command-Shift-G. You'll find that everything you think you can't do on a Mac, can be done, you just don't know how yet.
I find CleanMy Mac X a perfect app for deleting Apps completely. It also does a lot of other things. I have been using this app for many years. I always use it before I do my daily backups.
In finder when in icon view; use arrows to select files and navigate to folders, press command + down arrow to go into a folder and cmd + up to go out on folder. In list view, up down selects files or folders (while holding shift you can select multiple, or cmd plus clicking) and left right navigates in and out of folders. Use space on pictures or video files to get a preview, press space again for it to go away.
I’m still using my 2014 MacBook Pro to edit photos and some video, but the graphics card is no longer supported which of course cannot be replaced. I’m about to buy a new MacBook Pro with the M2 chip. Hopefully it will last twice as long as my first one. The Airdrop feature saves so much time transferring files. I have to use a Windows system at work and really hate not have the Airdrop feature.
ok, for finding a file path it's very easy, you just have to turn the path bar on. I'll put the shortcuts for everything, which makes everything fast. I'd recommend setting your finder window to column view (but that's just my preference). open a new finder window. first go to the FINDER by holding Command and tapping Tab, until you get to FINDER, then let go. Now press Command + N (for a new finder window). You can now go to the top of the screen and choose View > as Columns (or just press Command + 3). now all your new windows should pop up in Column view. To show the PATH BAR, with a finder window open go to VIEW > SHOW PATH BAR (or Shift + Command + P), now each Finder window should have a Path shown at the bottom when you select a file or folder. You can then RIGHT CLICK anything on that path bar and choose 'copy XXXXXX as pathname'. if you've copied a pathname you can quickly GO there by having a Finder window selected and pressing Command + Shift + G. Then Command + V to paste the path and ENTER to go there. The GO menu will also store recent places you've pasted into it. it's a bit of a learning curve to get used to a new OS, and can be frustrating to people that already think they know all about computers, but just remember that you learned the OS you know, bit by bit. if you started using Windows or Linux from scratch today, it would be just as frustrating for a while. Good Luck. Oh and one last really big tip that will save you so much time. If you are saving a file and the program opens the window asking you where you want to save it to.... You can just drag and drop the destination folder from another open Finder window into that save dialogue box (seems like it won't work, or it will break something but it won't). it will then automatically be set to save in that folder, instead of worrying about path names. this is something I wish Windows did.
Just bought MacBook Pro M1 Pro chip (2021) this weekend. I just could not find a windows equivalent in performance, power consumption, heat management and aesthetics. I like you am not totally sold on Apple's MacBook but so far it's ahead of windows based machines because of the M chip series. My M1 Pro chip shortcoming is that it cannot manage dual external extended monitors out of the box.
I haven't used premiere in a long time and Im not sure I will install it soon as I dont really need it. But if I find the time then I will just so I can do some tests with it. From what I heard Premiere doesnt run as smoothly as Final Cut or Davinci Resolve on Macbooks. So watch out for my future video where I talk about my experience using this Macbook long term where I will try to test out premiere on it. Sorry!
Great review. I use a macbook pro m2 max with 64 ram and 1tb. I was mac 40 years ago, switch to PC and now have both. Mostly photoshop and ligtroom but now more and more DaVinci 4k editing. I also wanted to see the copy speed. I have 2 external 1 tb ssd connected to the mac and wanted to know if one was faster than the other. One thing that I found is under utility. There is performance and there is a tab for disk. We can see the read write. It is not perfect but it gives us an idea. As you did, when I want to have the exact time, i use the stop watch... Source photo and film taken with Nikon z8 + DJI RS 3
Even the M series MacBook Pros WITH fans are completely silent. I’ve only ever heard the fans when rendering for over 10 mins, and they are barely a whisper on the 16” M1 Max. Whereas my Dell workstation laptop sounds like a frickin hairdryer while it’s just sitting there doing nothing. It’s ridiculous .
Ok7 lets go through them. 1. Airdrop - I can use phonelink on the Windows system to drop from the phone onto the computer (or make calls, or send sms from the pc) this includes other functionality I don't bother with. 2. M2 air means you will be getting voltage throttling which is why it doesn't overheat. But any non-accelerated CPU usage will be gimped. maybe give Maya/Houdini a crack and see how it goes for that. 3. Battery life is excellent, looks like the new 7340 - 7840's from AMD will be comparable to this. 3. Yes you can edit video as it has hardware video decoding/encoding acceleration, but only as long you use the supported formats like prores. DNxHQ is apparently really slow on it, BRAW used to be very slow but is apparently much better now. 4. The issue with extra monitors is the lack of proper displayport connectivity and limitations on how many extra monitors you can run (my 7 year old system can run 6 monitors at 2k). The lightening port standard is very slow (slower than usb-2) so dunno how it'll go for speeding up the ipad. 5. Wifi/BT Screen mirroring - yup been able to do this on windows since about 2016 (we did it at work)? 6. Yeah finder is pretty poor - You can add path using right click as the other comment says, but it's always a few step process rather than just hitting windows key and typing. 7. Deleting doesn't remove files - yep, when I was supporting videographers systems on Apple this was a huge issue. Space became hard to recover and you will notice that some programs will keep data in hidden areas, for example if you use FCP all the updates for FCP and quicktime are kept in a separate 'secure' area. This means if you need to uninstall an update that breaks stuff you have to reformat the system (or figure out the latest hiding area and rm it in sudo which can lead to weird behaviour. It also meant that viruses and malware on MacOS are a bit harder to remove manually (one of my specialisations). 8. Yeah never had good file transfer speeds on Apple, I have had something similar on windows lappies and usually it is a firmware/driver update fixes it. On MacOs there is paid software that does copies and shows the speeds, but I am unsure of it's reliability. The re was one issue I came across on the M2s that required a device update and using a particular dongle to get the USB3 speeds. Another issue is cut/pasting, Apple made this hard for some reason (yet to find a legit reason).
I use the air for remote work mostly video or audio work. but my Asus desktop at my office I need an Nvidia gpu for my 3d work. Nothing on Apple can compare
I haven't yet tried doing any 3D animation or vfx work on it but I might. Have you ever used the higher end MacBook Pros for 3D work? Maybe those would be powerful enough?
@@TomAntos Not in my experience, there is a reason all of Apple's speed graphs compared to 3090s etc. had voltage limited the Nvidia GPUs. In particular the ARM based processors in general seem to have issues with large amounts of vertices in a 3d modelling situation. The M1 was no different and was apparently very chuggy in fairly standard 3d scenes. The M2 would be better as it is not as voltage limited as the m1 was (m2 = same chip + a couple extra cores as m1 and volt-limiter has been reduced).
I never used Apple but I was thinking to buy this McBook air but I was wondering how my experience would be! I like the fact you mentioned the quietness of this product, I just have some concerns how hot it may get if some heavy work is being done! I bought iPhone recently and my next target is this guy
So far Ive edited a few more videos, including this one on the Macbook Air 13 and it has never gotten very hot. Just warm. I heard that the Macbook Air 15 is even better with the heat because there is more open space. So if you dont mind the larger size then get that one.
Here are 10 ways to get paths in macOS ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9ArnOqG7bgU.html Also the official apple support website is great for any questions.
Well the channel has been dying for the past 2 years as I've been extremely busy with VFX work on films and didn't have time to create youtube videos. BUT now that a whole bunch of films I was supposed to work on got canned thanks to the writers strike, I've got time to do youtube again. 😊
I'm at a similar boat. I've basically accepted that for most purposes, in the laptop space, apple is superior, while in the desktop space, PCs are superior. I was in team PC for everything but yeah... Microsoft just doesn't have a competitor to the MacBook lineup, they tried with the surface but it fell flat.
@TomAntos well, a fee reason for my decision. Apart from a filmmaker and video editor, I'm a gamer as well, and I used to play on consoles, but I found out that I was missing out buy no playing PC gaming, also in my opinion DaVinci rund better on windows. The biggest reason is price, Mac computers to always were over price.
The point I take away from this; that MacBook Air hardware running windows OS would be the perfect portable package, no oversimplified compromises. Also just clean your fans out, that Mac pardware istn gonna be bullet fast in a few year becuase head detroys silicon chips, theres no 2 ways about it, that hardware wont last! its also not customizable
I haven't used Windoze since 2009; been a MacGuy since then. My Mac Studio M1 Ultra is awesome and beats any Windoze machine I have ever had (eg Dell, HP, Acer)!
1. the issue is you bought a low-end system when you bought dell/hp/acer. They tend to put in older CPUs, slow ram (that is often soldered these days) and a slow ssd. Maybe try one of the AMD 7840's when they are out with 32GB ram as long as it has a decent ssd in it. My 7 year old system was beating the m1 for rendering 4k video, I just put 30TB of raid hdd in it the other day and if I wish I can login remotely and use it from anywhere with my lappy. All this being said, the m1 was a very good general/low-end purpose SoC, so for general stuff it is very good, but as soon as you need to compare it to a PC for CPU intensive work it falls over.
Welcome home- Apple is an ecosystem. It works beautifully. And as far as video editing color. Correction nothing can beat the M1 and M2 and soon to be M3 chips. The chip manufacturers usually associated with windows. They’ve been sleeping. You will love Apple.
Cept where Apple has blocked the Unix system from doing stuff like in the networking side of things. My favourite bugbear is that Apple often supplant Unix systems that are better than theirs because they didn't implement their own system properly and it was causing conflicts. Although when the issue initially occurred I could kill the Apple process and Nix just went to town and worked fine, their later update supplanted some of the Nix optimisations for networking to stop the issue ocurring (rather than fix their rubbish code), so it lost a bunch of QoS options and Nas options when using with professional routers, but this was some time ago, maybe they have re-integrated the nix stuff?
