It is really interesting that it says there was a M1 MacPro ready but they decided to wait for the M2, which means they won’t make the 2 year promise on the move to Apple Silicon.
Honestly it is likely because the M1 could only do dual, and the performance would not have been hugely more than the Mac Studio if there was not a quad option. So likely the M2 can do Quad.
I have been using Autokroma’s BRAW Studio Plug in since I got my Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6k Pro, because it allows you to select multiple clips to decode BRAW in Premiere vs the Black Magic plug in that works on one clip at a time.
I have run into issues with using these clips in after effects, with the current version I get the effects flashing on and off throughout the clip. You can see the results here.
This is a short from the Misadventures of Bear that I am currently working on finishing.
Talking to support and moving back to 2.7.1 resolved the flashing, but then removed the added built in LUT, which also screwed up the green screen.
My only solution was to use the Plug-in to save out sidecar files of the BRAW settings, and then compress them in Media Encoder which uses the settings of the sidecar and render the clips into ProRES HQ. I then had to individually relink the clips in After Effects, but then I could get the render to work with the correct settings applied.
I am still in contact with autokroma’s support, so hopefully this will get resolved, but they are having trouble recreating the errors on their end.
Mac Performance Guide is quite negative on Mac performance, and it is the only place I have seen to show negative performance of Mac Studios, and he is certainly right on the Core Rote in Apple Systems. And this article on Spotlight Indexing is very interesting as I hate when does things that you have no control over. Spotlight is one of those things, especially when it indexes and you have no control over it. A simple pause indexing would be an amazing thing.
Personally I hate Spotlight as it doesn’t find everything for me, I use Find Any File for any major searches.
And for core rot I have to bring up my issue with Apple Music and moving iPhone sync to the finder. Also the fact that the damn sync has to sync twice to sync any files to my phone. Why? WTF!
I love this as I still use Firefox. I don’t trust Google and Chrome, and while I use Safari on iOS on my mac I like the customization of Firefox, and even if it isn’t quite as fast as Chrome.
