Making an HDR node, he selects the highlights and makes them pop. Turning off any default settings he starts from scratch, adding contrast to start.
Popping on some nodes he starts experimenting. Qazi thinks 12K in a 4K timeline is the sweet spot. This is where it starts struggling for real, averaging 4-8 fps. Moving up to a UHD 4K timeline the first couple seconds stuttered, but then it handled the rest smoothly. Just with this test Resolve has no issues whatsoever and is playing back smoothly at 24 fps.
He double confirms that this is officially a 12K file, however, the timeline isn’t in 12K, it’s in Full HD.
With a new Resolve project and timeline Qazi drops in the clip. Interesting, immediately after the download, it plays back just fine. The camera records natively in Blackmagic RAW so that is what we are looking at here.
Just located Blackmagic’s URSA Mini Pro 12K page and they have three original files that are available for download. M1 support is in version 17.1, not the standard 17.0.įinding the 12K footage was a bit easier. To find it you’ll have to head to Blackmagic’s site and take a good look. Regular software can work through a built-in translation system from Apple, but you might actually see a decrease in performance this way.īlackmagic Design was actually quite quick to the part and released a version of DaVinci Resolve 17 with native support for M1. The M1 chip has a new architecture that requires software to be coded to work natively. The SSD should affect performance too much, however doubling the memory could be an important boost for this type of test. On the Apple site, it’s only the 13” version of the MacBook Pro and there are only two customizable settings – the SSD storage and RAM. Taking a look at the build, Qazi went to Apple to max it out. That’s a serious test for any computer, let alone a laptop. Pro colorist Waqas Qazi got his hands on a maxed-out MacBook Pro with M1 chip and try out whether it can handle 12K raw video in DaVinci Resolve. It also led to tons of questions about the real-world performance of the new MacBooks and Mac mini and whether or not the new chip was actually powerful enough for power-hungry tasks such as video editing.
Apple launching the M1 chip was a huge moment.