p.1 #1 · Mac Mini for Canon R5 Mark II and R6 Mark III Video
Hi,
I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini M4 (NOT the M4 Pro version) with 24GB RAM for the Canon R6 Mark III and R5 Mark II video. My primary video usage will be with R6 Mark III (4K 24, 4K 30 and 4K 60 fine) and occasional use of R5 Mark II inthe SRAW mode.
(4K 60).
Could anyone please let me know whether Mac Mini with 24GB RAM would be sufficient or will there be any major difference with Mac Mini M4 Pro and higher amount of RAM (48GB)?
Most of my videos would be less than 30 or 45 minutes in total length.
Also, how good is Mac Mini for using photo editing using Lightroom as well as DXO Photolab?
p.1 #3 · Mac Mini for Canon R5 Mark II and R6 Mark III Video
No question any recent Mini M4 will work fine for editing 4K video so long as you have a 4TB or larger external SSD for your Library and work files. The tiny SSD it ships fills up in a matter of days... I briefly owned a Mini M4 Pro and it worked great using Final Cut Pro with A/B 4K cams and several layers of soundtrack and a few plugins running. The main problem I had, and the reason I exchanged it for a Studio M4 Max, was the fans kick in during editing and rendering and that high-pitched whine drove me nuts. I don't hear a peep from my Studio. Nuttin. Of course, I live in the tropics so the Mini might be quieter in cooler climates.
p.1 #4 · Mac Mini for Canon R5 Mark II and R6 Mark III Video
It's not just the RAM but the number of GPU cores. That's where Pro, Max and Ultra chips really differentiate themselves from each other. CPU core performance is otherwise very similar clock speed within each generation (though CPU core counts also increase with each jump in chipset type).
The only thing I can contribute regarding video is that I used a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chipset with 16GB RAM to do 4K short videos (~5 minutes each) from the R6II and it never blinked.
What bogged down that chipset was transitioning from 24MP to 45MP stills when running them through Adobe's AI noise reduction in Lightroom, which is GPU intensive. I ended up with a Studio M4 Max with 40 GPU cores, which cut AI NR processing times to about 1/3 that of the M1 Pro chip. When NR is processing the GPU is pegged pretty much at 100%...
You'll probably get more feedback if you crosspost this to the post processing and printing forum where this discussion has come up quite frequently.
p.1 #6 · Mac Mini for Canon R5 Mark II and R6 Mark III Video
I use a mini for stills, not video, and it works well for that. However, I would double the amount of RAMZ to 48GB and consider a Pro model. (That is what I have.)
ringoes9 wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini M4 (NOT the M4 Pro version) with 24GB RAM for the Canon R6 Mark III and R5 Mark II video. My primary video usage will be with R6 Mark III (4K 24, 4K 30 and 4K 60 fine) and occasional use of R5 Mark II inthe SRAW mode.
(4K 60).
Could anyone please let me know whether Mac Mini with 24GB RAM would be sufficient or will there be any major difference with Mac Mini M4 Pro and higher amount of RAM (48GB)?
Most of my videos would be less than 30 or 45 minutes in total length.
Also, how good is Mac Mini for using photo editing using Lightroom as well as DXO Photolab?
