M1 MAC HANDBRAKE PRO

The Mac mini, the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro all offer support for an external 60Hz 6K (6,144x3,160) display, but the Mac mini lets you also connect a 4K (3,840x2,160) monitor, whereas the built-in screens on the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro top out at 2,560x1,600 and 2,880x1,800, respectively. If the Mac mini doesn’t promise a massive performance edge, why might you want it instead of one of the more convenient laptops?įor one thing, more screen real estate.

M1 MAC HANDBRAKE UPGRADE

The Intel Mac mini, which starts at $1,099 and offers a wide variety of upgrade options (including up to 64GB of RAM and 10 Gigabit Ethernet), is also still available for sale.

M1 MAC HANDBRAKE SOFTWARE

In either case, you can add another 8GB of RAM for $200 and/or increase the storage to 1TB for $200 or to 2TB for $600.Ī fully loaded Mac mini will run you $1,699, before adding any additional software besides the usual gimmies of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, and GarageBand, though Apple gives you the opportunity to add Final Cut Pro ($299.99) and Logic Pro ($199.99) to your cart before you check out. The M1 Mac mini comes in two default configurations, each with 8GB of RAM: one with 256GB of solid-state storage for $699 and one with 512GB for $899.

(The lower-end MacBook Air is hobbled slightly by its seven-core GPU, and the lack of a fan on both Airs introduces the possibility of restricted performance on demanding programs.) (Obviously less of a concern with a desktop, but no matter.)Īpple has paired this CPU with an on-board GPU like those on the MacBook Pro and the top-tier MacBook Air, the Mac mini's GPU offers an additional eight processing cores of graphics power. It’s divided into four performance cores and four efficiency cores, the former do things faster and the latter do them while drawing less power. The CPU powering all of Apple’s latest Mac releases is the eight-core M1. Thunderbolt 3 (4), HDMI 2.0, USB-A (2), Ethernet, 3.5mm headphone jack VideoToolbox still seems to lose some fine detail and even local contrast (tonal distinctions) in the shadows, over x264/x265 (it's worse when using VideoToolbox with H.264, H.265 is a bit better), but I can easily live with that for some films (except from the Criterion selection, obviously).Thunderbolt/USB 4 (2), HDMI 2.0, USB-A (2), Ethernet, 3.5mm headphone jack Somewhat not helped by the counterintuitively reversed numerical values of RF & CQ – RF goes 50‑>0 (worst‑>best), while CQ goes 0‑>100 (worst‑>best), at least on Handbrake 1.6.1 – took me a while to figure that out while scratching my head over seeing smaller and blockier files as I stupidly decreased the CQ value even further, d'oh! -) If it's even possible for any approximate correlation between the two values, obviously. MacBook Pro 14' M1 Max with 32Gb and macOS 12.2.1Ĭlick to expand.Sorry for a late question, but since the thread is still active, well:Īny idea if there are any roughly comparable values for Constant Quality between x264/x265 values and VideoToolbox values? Because using the same ballpark ~22 as with RF produces really over‑compressed files with VideoToolbox (10x smaller, but obviously totally blocky then). The results are eye opening for me and once again I am just looking at times, not final video quality. Once using VideoToolbox option then again using standard settings.

M1 MAC HANDBRAKE 1080P

I got the Big Bunny Buck video that the Handbrake team likes as a benchmark in both 1080p and 2160p formats then converted them to the same size H265 MKV format.

It's just that the Max could do multiple encodes at once. This is the reason why encodes using these engines are the same speed regardless of M1 Pro or M1 Max. Please see where they say VideoToolbox is using dedicated video encoding engines on the M1 Pro / Max chips.

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