M4 Pro video editing - what can’t it do?

[macman4789]

Hi,

Now that the M4 based models have been out a good few weeks now, it seems the best bang for your buck or overall balance between performance and cost is the M4 Pro.

Most of the reviews I’ve seen say that video editing on an M4 Pro with multiple layers, effects, graphics etc is absolutely no issue for it. So my question really is, at what point would you need to upgrade to the M4 Max chip? What will tax the M4 Pro chip so much that it won’t work very well? Editing experience drops significantly? I know export time will roughly be halved because of the dual media engines but what would you say will affect it?

Thanks

 

[DeepSix]

I chose the Pro model for a few reasons.

- 50% more ram
- Has two fans vs one in the base model
- less fan noise compared to the base model. It's pretty significant. The fans don't spin up as much because there are two.
- double SSD read and write speed

And having the extra cores is a nice bonus.

But yeah every YouTube review Ive watched, they all said that the Pro model is the one to get even over the base model and it's beneficial in stuff like video and photo editing (what I use it for)

I don't think the Max chip is worth it. Ive seen many reviews that said skip the max. It has very little gain over the pro model.

 

[macman4789]

Yeah, in the past the earlier M1 and M2 chips would say ‘can play 6 streams of 8K ProRes’ or similar. It doesn’t seem to be marketed like that this time around. I’ve not seen anything like that.

I just wonder at what point do you now NEED to go to a Max chip for video editing? Where is the threshold so to speak?