Running Adobe Media Encoder on Mac mini M1 ?

[bxs]

Has anyone run the Adobe Media Encoder on the Mac mini M1 to create proxies to compare how well this works compared to Intel Macs ? I'm wondering g if the mini M1 can be used beneficially for making proxies. Thanks.

 

[ArPe]

I did some renders yesterday and it’s working quite well, also supports the M1’s GPU with decent performance.

 

[bxs]

I did some renders yesterday and it’s working quite well, also supports the M1’s GPU with decent performance.

Can you state an estimated improvement (if any) you see vs. doing exact same on an Intel Mac ? Thanks.

 

[ArPe]

Can you state an estimated improvement (if any) you see vs. doing exact same on an Intel Mac ? Thanks.

Metal rendering was in the same ballpark as the MBP 16 with 5300M. I expected some struggle but it did better than I expected, no audible fan, no noise either.

 

[bxs]

Metal rendering was in the same ballpark as the MBP 16 with 5300M. I expected some struggle but it did better than I expected, no audible fan, no noise either.

I'm really wanting to know if the mini M1 will make a good platform to offload creating Proxies, especially if they get created faster compared to say iMac Pro 10-core and even the 2019 Mac Pro 16-core models.