Issues with Premiere Pro on M2 Ultra Studio and it has to do with Mac Spaces

Having a new M2 Ultra Studio, and always using 2 monitors to edit, makes this an issue close to my heart. Especially because to fix it, you must set you mac to Display have separate Spaces, which means you can’t have windows party between 2 windows and you are forced to have a dock that switches between the 2 windows (seemingly at random) and menus confusingly on both windows.

The current workaround is posted on Adobe Community from a question by Igal Hect.

From Kyle Plumadore an Adobe Employee.

I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect) 
I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect) 

Kyle Plumador, Adobe Employee

And with the issue not fixed in Sonoma or in Premiere, I think this is going to go on for a long time, and I HATE IT.

Thunderbolt 5 is announced with double the speed of 4, and triple for video!

You can read about it at AppleInsider or also the Thunderbolt experts at OWC.

I love that it will continue using the USB C port, but the fact that it allows so much more power scares me as it means hubs will be even more expensive, and I use so little in powered from the ports. I would love the speed though, and even better for video, so you could get better resolution at higher frame rates.

And you know this will show up in an Apple product first, maybe the next Mac Studio? That would make sense to me.

Seriously Apple $3000 more for an equivalently loaded Mac Pro over Mac Studio? WTF!

So the WWDC is over, and the VisionPro glasses cost $3500, WTF! But even worse is the price difference on the MacPro vs the MacStudio.

So here is the Mac Studio almost fully loaded, except only 4TB hard drive instead of a possible 8 TB.

And here is the MacPro for 10,599!

You have to be kidding. I do want expansion, but at the price, is it really worth it? Looks like a Mac Studio is in my future.

Apple Fooled everyone and released a new MacPro and Updated the Mac Studio to M2 Ultra as well

So in the last week it started to look like the Mac Studio would get updated with M2 and the M2 Utlra, and it did, but Apple also released the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which seems to have the addition of PCI Slots and 2 extra thunderbolt ports.

I have needed a new Mac for a while as my iMac Pro is starting to show it’s age (and inability to clean it out), so one of these is in my Future, but which one, I don’t currently know. I need to look at the pages on the Mac Pro once I the web site gets updated after WWDC.

You can follow the WWDC Keynotes at MacRumors.

2 Extra Thunderbolt Ports and 2 HDI ports is great, though I wish there were more thunderbolt and USB ports.

9to5Mac on the Mac Pro being dead on arrival

Honestly I was thinking about writing a post like this article, but Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has beat me too it.

The recent pate of articles from Gurman and their bad news on the Mac Pro has really had me thinking. No Quad Apple Silicon means no performance boost over the Studio. No memory upgrades makes sense, but no external graphics card, means a decided lack of expansion, and a need to spend more upfront, without the possibility of later upgrades.

As for PCI Expansion, sure a video i/o card from black magic would be cheaper than external, and you could put in a fast ssd pci card, but those are damn expensive. Maybe an Apple Accelerator, but like the one in the current, you know it would be quickly added to the next chips, so why bother.

And having more options for storage, I would love that. I so miss my 4 internal slots for spinning hard drives, but more likely I see room for more proprietary Apple SSDs, which would be too expensive and likely not user upgrade-able.

The one thing no articles I have seen talk about would be more Thunderbolt ports, which would be great. I already use two Thunderbolt 4 Hubs, and still lack for ports, but is that and better cooling and maybe room for a second hard drive worth thousands more?

The answer is no. There needs to be a realistic reason for a Mac Pro to exist.

So maybe Apple waits till the M3, when they can do a quad chip design and really do an insane machine, and they go for an iMac Pro right now. I would be dissapointed, but not surprised. Mainly disappointment because I would love to move to 32 inch monitors for my next machine.

AnandTech on the recently announced Apple Silicon M2 Chip

Ryan Smith has a must read article on the recently announced Apple M2 Apple Silicon chip that is in the new Air and low end MacBook Pro.

Basically while it can be more energy efficient, it can also run more power and be more powerful. And it is larger than the previous generation, and it also includes ProRes acceleration instead of just H264 acceleration in the chip. Also it has more memory capacity, 24 vs 16 and at 100GB/sec vs 68GB/sec in the previous M1,

And the larger chip will have Max and Ultra versions and I am betting the quad version that will be in the next Mac Pro, which makes me happy that they didn’t yet release the MacPro as if it is based on this it will beat out the current Mac Studio, though will certainly be quite expensive.

Apple Cheated on it’s graph comparison between M1 Ultra GPU and the NVIDIA RTX 3090

I have been seeing this in video reviews of the Mac Studio and here at 9to5 Mac by Ben Lovejoy. Basically this is true for these power levels, but the NVIDIA card they are comparing too can go much higher on wattage, and thus is much more powerful, and the new 2090 Ti can up to 450 watts of power, so Apple has cut the top of this graph, so it is really only showing till the top of the M1 Performance, but the other video card goes much higher.

I had seen a few videos fix the graph, and found this post from iPhone Hacks that has a fixed version of the graph from MKBHD.

This adds the power curve of the NVIDIA 3900 and the Ti should go further than this.

So yes the Mac Studio may use less power, but it gets whipped by the top of the line NVIDIA card.

It may be the most powerful Mac Graphics card, but not the most powerful graphics card that is for sure.

All the talk of the 5K iMac being dead, I bet it is more the parts shortage

I highly doubt the 5K 27” iMac is completely dead, sure it is dead for now, in favor of the much more expensive Mac Studio and Studio Display. The thing is that is a minimum $3500, much more than a base 5K Intel iMac. I think a 5K iMac isn’t dead, but with Studio Displays pushing towards a June ship time, Apple just had to chose one or the other. And especially if the Apple Silicon Mac Pro is pushed to 2023, the Mac Studio fills that high end gap much more successfully now, and once there is no supply shortage bet they do do the Apple Silicon 5K iMac that many have been waiting for.