9To5 Mac reports no M1 mac supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10 GB speed

Ben Lovejoy has the slightly confusing report.

It seems M1 macs don’t support 10gb USB 3.1 Gen 2 and only 10gb for USB 3.2 which should reach 20gb, so don’t officially support usb 4 which would have to include both of those.

So it basically supports the 5gb of Usb 3.1 Gen 1, and 3.2 is dual, so 2 5gb, but full thunderbolt 4 40gb.

Intel macs supported USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10GB, but also only supported USB 3.2 at 10gb.

I don’t know if this is licensing, saving money or just bad implementation on their own chip design. This is a huge mistake and one I wish Apple would deal with in the future (i bet it is hardware and not software).

PVC on Maxon Updating Red Giant Universe with M1 Support

PVC on the Maxon formerly Red Giant Universe Plug-ins having been updated to 5.1 with M1 Support and having replaced JavaScript with C++ for a more powerful and better Code Base.

I have used Red Giant Universe for years and think their whole suite is a must have. I use them literally on every project. I still wish Maxon still allowed you to have an installation on Laptop and Desktop, and even worse the Application Manager now signs out at least once a week, leaving renders with X’s in Premiere all the time. Honestly it was better when owned by Red Giant alone, but I still use the plug-ins all the time.

Rumors were true Apple has announced the Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and a new display the Studio Display

Mac Studio Front

I would also bet that the rumors are true that the iMac Pro and Mac Pro are delayed, and likely will be M2 versions of M1 Pro, Max and Ultra, as they have released this new machine. It is a Mac Mini sized7.7″ inches square and 3.7 inches tall so twice as tall. 4 thunderbolt ports, 2 usb c in front as well as a sdxc card slot, and 2 usb 3.1 in back a 10gb ethernet a headphone jack as well as an hdmi port.

It can run 4 displays and a TV. Damn!

I so want one and 2 studio displays, though I would rather have the Mac Pro, which will likely have 4 M1 Max’s with 256 GB of RAM (and now we know there is no new iMac Pro).

The studio display doesn’t do height unless you buy an expensive stand like the previous display and is 27″ 5K, anti-reflective, and you can get the nano texture as well and the same camera as iPad and mics and 6 speakers. (Wish I could get it without), but is $1599 to start. It is $300 to add Nano Texture Glass. The tilt stand comes wit6h it and the Vesa Mount costs the same (but then you need a VESA mount) and the Tilt and Height Adjustable Stand is $400 more, which is better than the $1000 for the one for the 32 inch display.

The M1 Max studio starts at $1999 and the Ultra version starts at $3999.

Oh yes I want one!

And this makes me think I couldn’t afford a Mac Pro anyway.

The $3999 Model is 20-Core CPU, 48 Core GPU and 32-core Nueral Engine. It is then a $1000 upgrade to move the the 20-core CU, 64 Core GPU and 32 Core Nueral Engine, another $800 for 128 GB of Unified Memory, and $400 to move from 1 TB to 2 TB SSD (and would be $1000 to move to 4TB, which is just too much. So that brings this sucker to $6199.00 USD. Wow, and I would need at least 1 studio display for $1500. Youch!

ooooh Apple just announced the M1 Ultra above the M1 Pro and M1 Max in Apple Silicon

So Apple just announced an M1 Ultra so rumors of a new mac today seem to be true! It is literally 2 M1 Max’s stuck together with Ultra Fusion technology with 2.5 TB/s of bandwidth. 4 times faster than other multichip setups! And it acts like 1 processor, and that means it is also expanding memory with 800 GB/s memory bandwidth with 128 GB of Unified memory!

20 Core CPU with 16 High performance and 4 slow, and a 64 core gpu. 8 Times faster than standard M1! With 4 ProRes Encode Decode engines! Damn!

And much less power than any PC CPU or GPU!

Damn this is going to be rocking, and makes the Mac Pro with 4 even more amazing!

Macworld on Apple Silicon Mac Pro

Jason Snell at Macworld has an article, Forget Everything you know about the Mac Pro which is speculation on Apple Silicon.

Of course we know some, like a bigger version of the M1 Max with more cores and more graphics cores and more memory.

And of course that means a smaller box than the current Intel Mac Pro.

And of course less expansion, because it is unlikely to have PCI slots especially since it doesn’t need an afterburner since it is built into the processor now, and only thunderbolt for expansion.

So really we are not saying anything new here. And sure it is all speculation.

I personally hope for more storage options. It would be great to have at least 2 banks of raided SSD’s, as I am sure there won’t be any room for spinning hard disks (though I would love a bank of 4, but am sure that will need external needs).

Honestly the New MacPro will likely be pretty damn small, but with some fans to cool the processors down for better performance.

Larry Jordan did an Apple Motion Speed Test and it is slower on the new 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro than a 2017 Intel iMac

Larry Jordan did a speed test of Apple Motion on Intel Vs. Apple Silicon and Apple Motion got slaughtered.

Now I don’t think this has anything to do with the hardway, but more not been working on the code for Motion, instead focusing on Final Cut, but it is disturbing since it is pretty much as shared graphics engine between the two. And interestingly it gives more perspective on AVID being so slow on updating for M1, because you obviously need to really update the code to make it faster, and if even Apple is slow to update, then how can you expect 3rd parties to be fast (with the exception of Blackmagic who could not be faster on their updates).

Let’s hope Apple gets on this and updates the Motion codebase, as for me the best features of FCP are what Motion can do.

9to5Mac is saying Apple Silicon Mac Pro will be less upgradable than 2019 model, which only makes sense.

Ben Lovejoy over at 9to5Mac is reporting that they are hearing that the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro will be less upgradable than the current Intel version.

And this seems like a pretty big duh, of course.

The Apple Silicon MacPro will have to set itself apart with impressive CPU and GPU power as you are not going to be able to add either of these and I am even doubtful of PCI support. And I doubt there will ever be external GPU support through Thunderbolt on M1 Macs either, unless apple ever figures this out for their own hardware, but likely they would just like you to buy a new machine.

I am tending to doubt their will even be additional bays for RAM or Hard drives, though with a likely dual or quad M1 MAX, it will certainly be larger than a Mac Mini and need more cooling, but I doubt it will need to be too much bigger.

I would like to see more Thunderbolt ports though. The 4 Thunderbolt Ports on my iMac Pro are kind of a joke, and the MacPro has more and the video cards also add 4 additional ports, so 8 or more thunderbolt ports would be awesome (and 12 would be better, or at least 8 thunderbolt and 4 USB.

And maybe the ability to have 2 raided hard drives for video, but with the prices Apple charge for SSD hard drives, that would cost a fortune, but it would be great for video editing.

Any which way it will be the raw processing power of the chips and the included ProRES accelerators that really makes this machine rock and roll for video editors.

AVID updated for Monterey 12.1 and Apple Silicon M1, but not natively

Yes AVID has finally added Monterey Support 12.1 as well as M1 Support in AVID Media Composer. Of course M1 support is only through emulation, it is not a native app. Amazing how Black Magic Designs and Adobe have been able to release true M1 support so much more quickly. And getting rid of Dongle support on Mac doesn’t seem like a good idea either.

You would think it would be so much easier at this point, but AVID is still so slow to respond. I mean there won’t be Intel Macs at all soon. Come on AVID, get on the ball. I know they are always slow with updates, but come on. And yes I know that AVID has to have systems that work on so many systems to keep going, but if you get a new license you only get recent versions anyway.

Honestly even with all the recent updated whenever I get on AVID I feel like I have stepped into the past and not in a good way. Even getting footage from DaVinci Resolve is not as simple as it is with Premiere. I know backwards compatibility, but AVID users really need to try out Premiere Pro with Productions and a single compression format (like ProRES) and see how well Premiere runs.