Don’t Buy The M5 Pro Mac Mini For Video Editing! (Here’s What I’d Buy Instead)
The M5 Pro Mac Mini has the exact same media engines as the $899 base M6, so here's the Mac Mini I'd actually buy for video editing at three different price points.
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The $10 Mod Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know About (M5 MacBook Air)
The M5 MacBook Air has the same chip as the M5 MacBook Pro, but no fan, so it gets heavily thermal throttled. Here is the 10 dollar thermal pad mod that got me a 32% faster Lightroom export, plus the honest video editing and gaming numbers.
Can Your Computer Edit Sony FX5 RAW?! I Tested It On The Cheapest MacBook Air!
I edited Sony FX5 XOCN RAW on the cheapest laptop Apple makes, a fanless M5 MacBook Air. DaVinci Resolve handled three stacked RAW tracks without breaking a sweat, Premiere Pro came close, and Final Cut Pro could not open the video at all.
This Is Why Your Wedding Films Don’t Feel Cinematic (It’s The Sound)
Sound design, not your camera, is what makes a wedding film feel cinematic. Here is the exact layering method I use to build the audio for a reception exit.
Deity PR-4 vs Zoom F3 vs Tascam FR-AV2: It Wasn’t Even Close! Here’s What I’d Buy
I put the Deity PR-4, Zoom F3 and Tascam FR-AV2 head to head on size, screens, Bluetooth, timecode, storage, batteries and audio quality. Here is which one I would actually buy, and why it was not close.
Sony FX5 vs Panasonic S1ii: I didn’t expect it to be this close!
The FX5 and the S1 II both record RAW internally, but they split hard after that. Here is every category each camera wins, and the one I actually bought.