All other applications were shut down during the test on both Macs. I then exported the final product to a local file. To test the power of the M1 MacBook Air in rendering video in a non-native app, I took the same stored project file, which included two videos, picture-in-picture, numerous titles and callouts, and both intro and outro videos. TechSmith’s Camtasia 2020 is a favorite app of mine for creating how-to videos, and it isn’t yet native.
This is the situation that many apps are in right now – they haven’t been turned into Universal apps that run natively on both the Intel and Apple Silicon machines, so the apps run in emulation on the M1-based Macs.
#M1 MACBOOK AIR VIDEO EDITING PRO#
My next test was to try a video app that runs natively on the MacBook Pro and in Rosetta 2 on the MacBook Air. The M1 MacBook Air rendered the video 26.8% faster than the loaded MacBook Pro.Ĭamtasia 2020 – not a Universal app – was used to render a large video on both the M1 MacBook Air and a fast Intel MacBook Pro On the M1 MacBook Air, that same rendering took just 3 minutes 11.5 seconds. On the MacBook Pro, the rendering of the video file took 4 minutes, 21.3 seconds. On both machines, the output resolution was 4K, the quality was “High” and compression was set for “Better Quality”. Stabilization was added to both, and the “magic wand” was applied to the video as well. No other apps were running on either of the test machines, and both were running macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur.
The same iMovie project file was used on both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. For the test I took an existing 2 minute, 3 second 4K video file, added a title at the beginning, added an audio track, and then exported the video. I thought I’d do a test exporting a video from another Universal app – Apple’s iMovie.
Of course, these benchmarks just show raw numbers. IMovie – a Universal app – was used to create identical videos on an M1 MacBook Air and fast 16-inch MacBook Pro
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