NEW MacBook Pro M1 MAX Premiere Pro Video Editing Speed Test - Is it Worth it?

One more thing to reiterate: 4K footage without any effects had 0 frames dropped on both Dell & M1 Max. But when adding lots of FX on top (as I did), they both struggled on H.264 codec. But ProRes on M1 Max is so smooth! Dell doesn’t do well with ProRes. One last note, the Dell was very loud during the performance and got hot, M1 Max didn’t make a sound.

Hi, can you scrub through 4k footage with your curser smoothly without missing frames?

do u have plans for m1 vs m2 video comparison in the future )?

I was wondering is Macbook pro 13" enough for editing files of 4k 120 shot from A7S3 or HD240fps from X-T4. Pleas help.

More than Enough! 👏More than thankful! 💜

Is 64gb enough ?

Nice test, I'm curious the edition with the news RTX 4080 x RTX 3080

M1 max working extremely poorly on my machine. Huge disappointment

I zoomed to the end to see that you talked about havning AE, PP, PS open while doing other functions (which is what I'm doing on my mid 2014 MBP), so it seems that the max is in my future. You answered the exact dilemma I'm going through, thanks!

It would be a beautiful comparison test if it wasn't deliberately pro-mac
:-)
I understand that you are comparing an old macbook with a new one. But it is absolutely unfair to compare the TOP flagship macbook max M1 with a PC whose price is not even half of the Max M1.
And when we talk about whether or not it is possible to cut 8K video from the EOS R5 on an old macbook... of course it is. Have you never heard of proxy files? You only need to generate proxy files for the 8K footage for the project and you can also edit on your old computer. Premiere PRO works then only with proxy preview files and uses heavy codecs from R5 8K or RAW only when exporting video. It's just one click of the mouse and a cup of coffee while it generates proxy files and no more waiting during editing.

What are your thoughts on the Mac Studio?

Love your content…thank you!! Question? I have a brand new Mac Studio with the M1 Max chip. I am using Adobe Cloud with Premiere Pro 2022 and opened a :30 sec commercial project that I imported into the new computer. It was not rendered, obviously…and when I rendered this small project with basically still photos and some motion titles it took about 4 minutes to render! I was really disappointed…thought I might have the fresh installation of Premiere Pro not configured properly…any ideas?

I just want to see a test for 1920x1080!

The M1 Max chip also has double the memory bandwitdth compared to an M1 Pro.

Have any of the latest Premiere updates made working with HEVC 10 bit 4:2:2 files (Canon R5) any faster on the M1?

hey you just tested not native after effect

Very informative and entertaining. Subbed!!

The subtitles are atrocious

Hi, is this test made with te AE beta optimized for M1? My uncertainty about the M1 are the after effects and the dynamic link workflows. As well as the 3D plugins in premiere and after effects, like Element, Projection 3D and so on.

Awesome video! 👏🏼 It would be nice to see a comparison between m1 Max laptop n the m1 Mac Mini or the iMac with the m1... The battle of the M1 chip! LoL

Thanks! You have the most useful videos on Premier.

when you were rendering on thr pro max, was the fans kicking in, as mine does but stops as soon as the render is done?

Always appreciate your videos! I’m looking for reviews on the Dell 40” ultra wide and unexpectedly heard you mention it briefly at the end of this video. Would love to hear any insight you may have about using it as your primary monitor. Thank you!!

I like you.

Premiere Gal, does the M1 Pro ProRes codec chips speed up processing speed if you choose that codec or does it just make the file bigger? I am using Topaz Video AI to enhance videos. Topaz has a ProRes 422 codec but I can't tell if it makes the GPU or CPU load more making the file spit out faster or just a bigger file. Thanks if anyone knows this answer.

I'd love to get a copy of the project files to test out my 18 core 10980xe with 2080TI and 128GB ram. Deciding if I need to upgrade at some point....even though I think I'm drive limited on an older Thunderbolt 2 raid that houses the media on my system as it reads at between 400-900MBps. I'd especially love to test out the MOGRT export test you did.

How are you all so rich?
Literally all of you video editor/tech gear channels. There’s thousands of you and you all have so much fear worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Also.... When did premiere start offering a simple selection rotoscoping???!!! Tks again

Great review and test! Thanks! Very helpful:)

could you update this vid with the new Premiere update? I think the Mac M1 would do much better now

have you tested the new premiere 22.1.1 onwards release? They're supposed to be 5x faster on M1

Love this video, I sent it to everyone on my team!

Great video thanks 🥳...But how do the PC and the 2017 Mac compare when using ProRes?

Hoping this will be good for using After Effects, Prem. Pro, with Illustrator or Photoshop for traditional animation and motion graphics.
Thanks 😊

beautiful

lov ya content

Great, informative video! I have no plans to purchase this computer because once again it will not play 4K footage at full resolution with any effects added. I am using the latest PP beta version on my M1 Mackbook Pro and it does not handle 4K footage at all. I have to use proxies which are a pain the in buttocks, so I really want a computer to handle 4K without using proxies. I guess Adobe is still behind in updating PP for Apple Silicon even though they claim the Beta version works well. Will the next version of computers finally work with PP? Who knows. Thanks again for a great video.

Are you editing internally on all machines? And have you tested editing speeds with the internal vs external ssd?

Just confirms what a dog Premiere is. Throw in some test times against FCPX & Resolve and it's not looking good for Adobe

Whats the battery life difference between this 3 machines? Like can I edit for hours on the M1 max on site? I know i could only last for a few hours on the other laptops with the core i7 for sure.

Thank you Gal for this video! I'm wondering which Premier version is running smooth on M1? Since I'm getting lots of issue with the last release of it. Thanks

Great video and high props to all your editing and animations!

I haven’t been deluged by this much jargon since I watched Seven Days of Science and the description of a newly discovered dinosaur based on fossil bone fragments. Whew!

I watched a lot of videos that showed render speed but a few showed a real workflow with luts, playback speed, effect and more. I'm sad that this video is part of another useless video showing only render speed. Okay at the beginning, playback was mentioned but the rest is sloppy. It is a pity....

Great video thank you

Wonderfully helpful video! Thank you! I'm wondering if the 64GB RAM is a big plus over the 32 GB on the M1 Max bumping up the cost by $400. I plan to do more professional editing on P Pro. Any extra feedback on that will be very much appreciated.

Is curve monitor realy helpful in daily use

Try unplugging the Dell, and test, MAC wins!

Nice review! I love this style over regular benchmarks. I just got a m1 mac mini to test the waters and my workflow in Premiere. Overall, loved it, but most of my plugins weren't ready yet. Seems none of the GoPro 360 stuff is ready yet, couldn't get the reframe plugin to recognize in m1 native premiere (worked in Rosetta intel version). Also the GoPro video render app for 360 files wasn't working either for the max or the fusion (it had errors for anything over 2 minutes, tried it on several clips). Redgiant magic bullet doesn't seem to be working either, as of 2 weeks ago. Anyone have the same experiences?