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Help me choose a Mac mini for video editing

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Help me choose a Mac mini for video editing

Worlrl

macrumors member

Original poster

Sep 22, 2020
Hi.
I’m a videographer and also edit videos sometimes.
I use Davinchi resolve studio and Most of my work is 1080p short instagram reels.
More intensive use cases is adding fusion effects and titles, color grading, 4k h.265 footage.
What would be a good Mac mini for me?
M2 or m2 pro? 19corw gpu or 16?
16-24-32 gb ram?
And also is the 512gb ssd still slower than 1tb?

Thanks guys

InuNacho

macrumors 68000
Apr 24, 2008 1,958 1,185 In that one place
I also use DaVinci Resolve for LONG 1080p tape conversions and it works fine with my base M2 Mini. I went with the base model as this is a secondary computer to my main PC. If you already have a main machine I would consider the base or at least 16GB M2 Mini. I opted for external SSDs as they are 10x cheaper than Apple's built in SSD.

I run DaVinci and OBS at the same time, no issues at all.

My set up is in the link below.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-mac-mini-setups.2157018/post-31979973
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gazwas

macrumors 6502
Aug 11, 2008
Do you have a budget?

All M1 and M2 machine will edit that spec of footage in a breeze, even the base spec machine.

Anything from the base machine will be a luxury. Do you have existing external storage, do you need more ports for peripherals?

I would say M2 with 16GB is a good place to be for video editing just incase you get more adventurous with effects. Choice of storage is up to you and how you edit/store footage.
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Worlrl

macrumors member

Original poster

Sep 22, 2020
I also use DaVinci Resolve for LONG 1080p tape conversions and it works fine with my base M2 Mini. I went with the base model as this is a secondary computer to my main PC. If you already have a main machine I would consider the base or at least 16GB M2 Mini. I opted for external SSDs as they are 10x cheaper than Apple's built in SSD.

I run DaVinci and OBS at the same time, no issues at all.

My set up is in the link below.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-mac-mini-setups.2157018/post-31979973
Thank you!
Have you ever tested it with 4k 10bit footage?
You use fusion effects?

Worlrl

macrumors member

Original poster

Sep 22, 2020
Do you have a budget?

All M1 and M2 machine will edit that spec of footage in a breeze, even the base spec machine.

Anything from the base machine will be a luxury. Do you have existing external storage, do you need more ports for peripherals?

I would say M2 with 16GB is a good place to be for video editing just incase you get more adventurous with effects. Choice of storage is up to you and how you edit/store footage.
My budget is a base m2 pro or upgraded m2.
Main concern is how slow the 512gb storage against the 1tb ssd.
And also the 16gb ram or maybe I need the 24.

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