HEVC setting that using Media Engine?
Hi. I am reconverting videos taken into HEVC format to be put into Photos for family sharing. I am using Compressor on an M1 MacBook Pro.
I would have expected Compressor to use the Media Engine in the M1 chip but this does not appear to be happening or if it is, then the performance is terrible.
My encoding rate is around 5-10 times longer than the length of the content being re-encoded. I am currently using the Apple Devices 4K (HEVC 8-bit) preset.
For example. I had a 4.27GB file of 7:58 minutes of HD video in AVC1 converted to a 453GB HEVC video but it took over 42 minutes. I have hundreds of videos I wan't to reduce in size for Apple Photos but this performance is not acceptable. All this video during conversion is on the internal MacBook Pro 1TB drive so there is no bottlenecking there.
Why is Compressor not using the Media Engine and is there a setting that might force this?