Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has posted his “MacBook Pro Diary: M1 Max video editing is a breeze, but everyday use impresses me, too“
So far it does look like everyone is pretty blown away by the M1 Max performance, so I can’t wait for an iMac Pro and a MacPro based on Apple Silicon. I do still wish they would allow external GPU’s, but I doubt that is in the future.
Jason Snell at SixColors has an article on running shortcuts from the mac command line.
I haven’t gotten to play with shotcuts yet as I haven’t moved to Monterery because the company I am working for still runs Premiere Pro 2019 and it is doubtful that it runs on Monterery and even if it does it will likely be not that stable. Not like I want to be running Premiere Pro 2019 anyway, basically I don’t want to live without the new caption feature when running Premiere Pro.
Very impressive results, especially since i have an iMac Pro, though I did get the Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16GB which might get a tiny tiny bit more performance.
My hope for the Apple Silicon MacPro keeps growning, though it will certainly be expensive, especially if it is basically 2 M1 Max chips tired together (i know it is more complicated than that).
Another great video from Chadwick shoults and this one showing just how fast the new M1 Max MacBook Pro is at DaVinci Resolve, which not only says allot about what Apple did, but also what Black Magic Design has done about getting DaVinci to really shine on Apple Silicon.
Man I can’t wait for an Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro to really see what these chips can do, and if rumors are right they will likely be M2 Max chips, as the MacBook Air next year is likely to be the first M2.
MacRumors posted on Anandtech’s Deep Dive in to the M1 Pro and M1 Max. And here is the AndanTech Deep dive.
The chips here aren’t only able to outclass any competitor laptop design, but also competes against the best desktop systems out there, you’d have to bring out server-class hardware to get ahead of the M1 Max – it’s just generally absurd.
Wow, this sounds amazing, as I have said, can’t wait for the Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro to see what they can do!
Filipe Esposito at 9 to 5 first reported on this, from a test by Andy Somerfield at Affinity Photohttps://9to5mac.com/2021/10/25/apple-m1-max-gpu-beats-6000-amd-radeon-pro-w6900x-in-affinity-benchmark/
This is pretty amazing, beating a $6000 GPU from the 2019 MacPro! Wow. So the Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro will certainly be impressive machines.
Things sounds great so far, and it really gives me hope for the Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro.
Still hope that plug in makers start speeding up the process of re-writing their software for M1. It disturbs me that even companies like Maxon with Red Giant hasn’t upgraded everything to M1 yet, even though it is a subscription, which means they really should be upgrading their applications quickly, because I am paying for them constantly. At least Adobe has the Beta of After Effects working on M1, but it is going to be limited on plug ins for sure.
So with the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, Apple added a cinemtatic mode to video that is basically Portrait Mode for video, which does a post processed Depth of field using the different lenses to create a depth map. It is not going to be perfect, but certainly will look more cinematic than the deep depth of field you normally get with an iPhone lens, and you can re-focus after the fact in Final Cut Pro, iMovie and in the Photos app. It even has HDR color depth, but then why is it only at 30 Frames Per second?
I just don’t get what Apple was thinking here, especially since it should be easier to process 23.976 than 30 frames a second. And films in movie theaters are in 23.976, and our eyes are used to that amount of motion blur to be cinematic, and not 30 frames, which is much more TV looking, as everything is sharper.
I think eventually will add 23.976 to cinematic mode, but likely not till IOS 16 or the next iPhone with better Cinematic mode.
Honestly I have an iPhone 11 Pro and Cinematic Mode would possibly tip me to getting a new iPhone, but it is the 30 FPS thing that really screws it up for me.
Now I do have a weird relationship with 23.976 vs 29.97, as when I am cutting commercials I would prefer 29.97 because Motion graphics looks less stuttery at 29.97, but we are talking “CINEMATIC” here and for “CINEMATIC” that is 23.976!
I think Apple made a mistep here, and hope they will fix it sooner rather than later.
Of course I also think that they should have figured out a way to use the LIDAR on the Pro model which is used for low light photos to make a better depth map. I know it would split cinematic mode for the 12 and the 13 pro models, but a better depth map would be welcome.
And this means it is time for the awesome deep dive review with Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica. This is always the way to learn the ins and outs of the new system, and I always look forward to the article, and have been reading them for every OS release for so many years.
I would love to upgrade, but I always have to wait. Before you upgrade you should always check out what apps might have issues and to find out I always check out the forum at MacRumors, which has a post with a sticky at the top with Apps that are working and not working. Now it doesn’t do version numbers, so it will almost never answer my most pressing issue, which is what versions of Premiere Pro will work on the new OS (yes the new version works). Now it does seem better than most OS upgrades, but some apps are still having issues or sure.
I have companies that work completely on 2019 (which you can’t even install and should not be using anymore), and I don’t know how you run a newish MacPro on that old of an OS, but I digress.
Adobe has updated it’s awesome drawing app for tablets, Adobe Fresco to it’s October 2021 release, version 3.0.
It’s new features are:
•Apply Motion (ipad and windows) which I am interested in checking out.
•Perspective Grids (ipad and windows) to help do proper perspective
•Send to Illustrator on iPad
•Vector jitter brushes to give a more organic feel to vector brushes
Awesome, I need to spend more time in Fresco as it really is such an impressive and powerful painting program, and am certainly interested in seeing what the motion does, and see if will be useful for any video projects in the future.
