The one big advantage the Mac Mini M1 has is that Resolve has only crashed once in 2 months of use (v17 up to 17.1.1), which is spectacular for me and is the one big reason I prefer to use it rather than my old PC. Perhaps the footage chosen in the various reviews is better optimised on M1? Or maybe there was little to no grading? So I don't understand either where all the M1 rave reviews for Resolve came from. I have to use the new 'Render in place' feature to make a Magic Mask clip playable after it eventually completes.įinal delivery rendering in both cases is considerably slower than my 5 year old PC (Intel i5 4 core CPU, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 1080Ti GPU). Some new features like the Magic Mask bring the M1 almost to a dead halt. In both cases I have only light grading (WB, exposure correction to Rec709) with perhaps some mild sharpening here and there and some lens correction for the GoPro stuff. On any other setting it stutters, even when fully cached.

If I turn off the proxy and wait several minutes, an HD timeline will eventually fully cache (the red line becomes blue) and it then become fully playable without stutters.ĤK: however with the same footage on a 4K timeline, I have to drop to 1/4 resolution for no-stutter playback. HD: I often have to drop to Timeline Proxy half resolution for playback of BRAW and H265 (Mavic drone & GoPro 9) footage. But mine is not as bad as the results you are getting - perhaps try working from the internal SSD rather than your external one or try a different cable? However I've found it to be no more than OK at best in Resolve. It's a great general purpose little machine and is super-fast and totally silent in regular applications - it's a joy to use. I've got a Mac Mini M1 with 16GB RAM and have also been not impressed with the performance in Resolve (Studio version).

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