Steve Alexander wrote:Curious if you have tried any Fusion comps with your M1 - I have found that a Fusion composite with 4K (UHD) footage is very taxing on my old Windows laptop and I was considering an M1-based MacBook of some sort for on-the-road editing...
I found that my Mac M1 16GB was generally fine for normal 4K editing and simple Fusion, but when it came to aspects that were heavily reliant on RAM such as more complex Fusion compositions, the Mac M1 would grind to a halt when auto-rendering the complex Fusion compositions.
In macOS Activity Monitor, often the CPU is operating at around 20% to 50% for complex matters, but the 16GB RAM is totally maxed out.
Initially, I assumed the M1 16GB was un-usable for complex Fusion compositions, but I've found Saver Loader nodes have allowed me to work on complex Fusion compositions that were otherwise unworkable on the M1. (Use the Saver node to render the Fusion composition to a folder on the SSD, and then subsequent playback of that Fusion composition uses a Loader node to read the data from that folder. There are tutorials on youtube).
I admit using Saver Loader nodes for each composition is a slow way of working, but it gets the job done, whereas without them the M1 was simply unworkable for complex compositions.
I too am looking forward to the M1X, M2X with 32GB or 64GB RAM.