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M4 Mac Mini (Base Spec) & DaVinci Resolve (Free) – A fantastic, affordable editing setup
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Quick note: Small error at the beginning! The Front USB C ports are 10Gbps, not 40 Gbps. But, still plenty fast enough for editing.
This whole project was shot in 4k 60 (camera and screen capture!). A Roll was graded, plenty of zooms and other bits etc. Edited on 4k timeline. I mention in the Video I changed the Playback Proxy to half, this is a feature that used to be called Timeline Proxy Mode but it's now called Timeline Playback Resolution (Playback – Timeline Playback Resolution). I used the old term and its confusing some people ha! It basically just lowers the preview resolution, it doesn't create any proxies files etc. No Proxies were used, or harmed in the making of this video. Anyway…
All rendered at 4k 60! And it took… 25 minutes. Which isn't too bad at all!
Great! Thanks Alex, I was wondering how this kind of stuff would fare in the real world…I am impressed. I am sure if you had experienced any spinning beach balls you would have shown this 😂
id davinci lite still limited to 8bit ?
What some fail to tell you is it can get a tad warm and you will hear a noise.. that is the fan. It's not real loud but you will hear it now and then. I am .. well I have no words. I don't use any of the programs so many of these Mac users use yet my fan kick in and I heard it
Well done!
Amazing, mate! Thank you for the helpful video on Mac Mini M4's real-editing performance. However, seeing how the Mac Mini M4 works with the studio version of DaVinci Resolve would be great before purchasing.
base mac mini is more than enough power for 99% of consumers…..the ones complaining about it are mainly super picky youtubers…
Have you tried reframing a 360 degree video brother? I am very doubtful about getting that done with 16 gigs of ram
Can the external drive be used as installation drive for da vinvci resolve or other apps in MacOS?
Thank you , Do you thing if m4 mini base is enough for budget music production videos, colour grading 4- 5 min. Video I now have bmcc 2.5 and planning to buy bmcc 6k Thank you
I'm also considering the base mini m4 or perhaps upgrade to 24gb ram. Will be mostly used for video editing and some coding.
Thanks for taking the time to show how it runs with titles and effects. Everyone goes on and on about render speed… to me render speed comes second to how it performs in the Edit page with multiple clips and titles and effects running… that's a real world test! Great clip!
I opened DiVinci Resolve on my Mac Mini 2018 Intel i7 (with 32gb of third party Ram) and it took 48 seconds to open. I think perhaps it's time for an upgrade…
Great video! I'm super-impressed with your practical testing. Not just some stupid benchmarking which doesn't tell you much. But real, practical examples. I think you showed perfectly how impressive the little Mac is. Super snappy. For $599 and you're a beginner, or maybe intermediate media creator, it's a damn good deal. Like you mentioned, the SSD needs to be bigger. It's the only real-hiccup. But for $400, you can get OWC's new Thunderbolt 5 at 2TB. With that you get 6GB/s read and 4GB/s write. I mean, that's half the price of the Mac's $800 2TB price upgrade.
Another potential issue is if any of the projects created a swap file. While not necessarily a big deal, it does add some wear and tear on it and can prematurely age the storage. SSD storage cells don't last as long as RAM…
I'll be waiting for the Mac Studio M4 Max. I used a base M1 Max Mac Studio while my Intel i5 MacBook Pro was in the shop. It was just crazy fast. A 20-minute project on my MBP took about 3.5 minutes on the Studio. And a base Max Studio is only a few hundred dollars more expensive than a mini M4 Pro chip with similar RAM/SSD. And it would be so superior in many ways.
But if you're on a budget, I think the Mac mini can suffice quite well.
I took your advise and purchased the Mac mini. For a simple 8 min video it was marginally faster at rendering a Davinci resolve video. Same video renedered on mac mini m4 and pc and same settings. There is so much hype over the M4 Mac mini – buyers be aware of all the hype….
Just thinking about upgrading my mini M1 to the M4 mini
megabits per second i think
Can you make a Performance test with Render intense stuff like Magic Mask, Depth Map, Fusion effects, camera Tracking?
Thanks a tonnn! This video is super helpful! I guess it'll perform better if I get 24GB RAM which I might opt for. What do you think?
I’m buying a Mini M4 and Not sure what to buy. Do I buy the M4 PRO maxed out or ? Or do I buy the M4 maxed out and sell it a day? I would like to buy 4TB of storage and the pro on,y allows that though.
I've been editing on mac mini m1 using FCP. I picked up a Mac Studio M2 Max and have switched over to Davinci Resolve 18, now upgraded 19.x (free versions). Works great!
great vid, thank you!
60% design, 20 effects/editing, 10% illustration…yeah, this $580 machine works for me.
Good stuff, actual real world use.