Hi I recently got a m1 mac mini and installed FC10.6. The Machine has 8GB of memory and a 1TB drive housed in a usb-c hub. I have found the performance of this set up to be unbelievably bad. I am trying to edit a multi cam 4k shoot and find that the machine struggles to handle even one camera. I have created proxys. and there are no other programs running on the machine. Something must be wrong as it cant be this bad surely! Any advice appreciated.
Regards
Brian
Hey brain,
I hope this article will help you find your solution: If your Mac runs slowly - Apple Support
There are multiple things that could be going wrong for this issue (annoying I know)! But if the things that could be causing your Mac to run slow is the max overheating, unwell vented area, multiple applications open, but my strongest hypothesis is that because of your low 8 gb of memory the max could start to feel slow, also if you have low storage the max could want to run slow for that reason.
I hope this helped!
Hey brain,
I hope this article will help you find your solution: If your Mac runs slowly - Apple Support
There are multiple things that could be going wrong for this issue (annoying I know)! But if the things that could be causing your Mac to run slow is the max overheating, unwell vented area, multiple applications open, but my strongest hypothesis is that because of your low 8 gb of memory the max could start to feel slow, also if you have low storage the max could want to run slow for that reason.
I hope this helped!
This may not help but I had a M1 Mac Mini with 8gb Ram and made movies but using iMovie which included HD video with audio inserts and and other special effects and ran very smooth and fast. Most testesr on Youtube report good performance with Final Cut Pro and 4k footage so you may have some other issues.
8 GBs of RAM and using an externally mounted USB connected drive is not exactly optimization for high performance. Can we assume that the 1 TB drive is at least a SSD?
16 GBs of RAM with an internal 1 TB SSD would have been the best way to go. An internal drive connection will always be faster than an external one.
Mini runs cool, vent not a problem. The files are large but proxy’s should solve that issue I feel. At the moment I have taken the hub out of the equation running with a ssd drive connected directly to the mini. Still slow.
Thanks Brian
Please ensure that any anti-virus, speed-up or clean-up apps are disabled or uninstalled. The Mac doesn't really need these, and they often cause performance problems.
Thanks for your help. Yes ssd drive.
External drives will always be slower than internal drives, using a hub shouldn't make a difference.
Final Cut and Mac Mini
