MacBook Pro M1 & Lightroom - FAST!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

Just a quick video demonstrating how well the new MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip works with Lightroom. MacBook Pro Specs: 16-inch MacBook Pro - Space Gray Apple M1 Max chip with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine 64GB unified memory 2TB SSD storage macOS Monterey ver 12.0.1 iMac Specs: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020) Processor: 3.6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 Memory: 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB 2TB SSD Drive macOS Monterey ver 12.0.1 ** I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Apple & Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ The Best Sky Images I've Seen Available -- Ocudrone - bit.ly/3vtDpjR *Save 10% with Discount Code: Anthony10 Tap into Adobe's Creative Cloud: bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Anthony Morganti’s MUST HAVE applications: At least one Non-Destructive RAW Editor Lightroom - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Capture One - captureone.38d4qb.net/y1Djy Luminar - bit.ly/2JUJxKw (Save with the Promo Code AM16) On1 Photo RAW - bit.ly/2zJmA9I (Save with Promo Code: AM17) Exposure X7 - bit.ly/2U8UxrK (Save with Promo Code: AnthonyMorganti) PhotoLab 6: tidd.ly/2HhiN9X At least one FULL Editing App: Photoshop - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ My MUST-HAVE Plugins: Topaz Gigapixel AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Denoise AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J *Save 15% on all Topaz Labs apps - use the Promo Code: AMDISC15 or instead of Topaz Denoise AI: On1 NoNoise AI - bit.ly/2zJmA9I (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM17) Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 - tidd.ly/3dc4gYm The Best Sky Images I've Seen Available -- Ocudrone - bit.ly/3vtDpjR *Save 10% with Discount Code: Anthony10 My MUST-HAVE Mac Utility: CleanMyMac X - Info: bit.ly/3jtVpU3 To save 10% on your purchase of CleanMyMac X: 1. Visit the CleanMyMac X store: bit.ly/3bEMuMx 2. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on "Enter it now" under "Already have a coupon code?" 3. Paste the promo code TONY10 and hit "Verify" 4. The prices will be reduced, and you’ll be able to select the license and proceed with the payment ** Note that all of the promo codes listed above may not work on sale products. *** I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Please follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/anthonymorganti/ View my recommended gear list: www.amazon.com/shop/anthonymorganti As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I use this software to record my screen and make parts of my screen enlarge and zoom out so you can see it: Screenflow: telestream.pxf.io/DMrW2 Unsure of how to price your photography? Check the 2019 Guide to Pricing Your Photography: amzn.to/2S1CiU7 I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement here: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Thank you!

[@vernonsza]

I have the MacBook Air M1 from late last year and I love it. No issues in LR or any other piece of software.

[@littleman787]

Almost 4y on, bought a secondhand M1 Pro for LrC after having tried a friend's last week...

[@Marcin3z]

Nice video. Exactly what I was looking for.

[@avnerbenzvi8757]

can you give your opinion about what the best cost-benefit M1 PRO or MAX, 16/32/64 MB RAM ?? for Photos processing only using (Lightroom + Photoshop + Luminar AI/NEO + TOPAZ Denoise/Sharp/GIGAPIXEL) stand alone and Plug-in. Thanks

[@Japhet.B]

I’m becoming too addicted to your contents 😊 I just bought my 2021 M1 16GB and I love it 🙌🏾

[@darrellhornick7764]

Yeah. I've got the 14" fully specter out M1 Pro chip MacBook Pro. Blazingly fast indeed!

[@iScorpio1971]

Great! Got the 16' M1 Pro w32GB...

[@kenhalal375]

I have the same model on order accept with only 32 gb of memory and 1 tb ssd. Can't wait to receive it and experience those performance gains. Especially with ON1 photo raw masking bug.

[@robgerety]

Thanks for this. There are tons of videos out there showing how long it takes to process a video, or how long it takes to process a monster pano, etc. But this demo is way more important to me. I totally agree that making the simple task of scrolling around so much better is a great improvement. I would love to see a similar demo with a lower spec'd macine to see how it does. I have one of these computers on the way and it is reassuring to see how well it works. As you say, they are not cheap computers.

[@sherryd1805]

Thanks for the quick and helpful video. I’m getting ready upgrade my 2017 MacBook Air. Lots of good questions posted here…thx for starting the conversation!

[@clarification007]

Must be the same result on the iMac 24 inches with M1 (Version 12.0.10)?

[@lasticonoclast]

It would be interesting to see how quickly the M1 renders images while editing in Photoshop, or in Topaz denoise or sharpening software. That's where my current 27" iMac (2017 model) feels really sluggish, and I plan to replace next year with the updated 27" models.

[@smaruzzi]

Thanks. Basic and probably a stupid question: how can I be sure I'm running the native M1 version of LRC on my MBP M1 Max? Nothing in the About box seems to indicate the version (Intel or Apple) and in Creative Cloud, the dropdown menu at the right of each install app suspiciously shows Intel. Thanks, Stefano

[@robertcook2109]

I recently purchased a 16" Macbook Pro (M1 Pro). Really quick. On my old Windows laptop lightroom was really slow and struggled with Pano merges. On my Macbook I have opened 30 raw files from Lightroom as layers in Photoshop in under 2 minutes.

[@SubiTrekker]

Your comment got me to time my pc. 27 raw files downloaded from LR into PS as layers in 1:26 and that's with PS needing to load first. I guess I just saved myself $3K.

[@robertcook2109]

@@SubiTrekker, my PC wouldn't even do it. It was a fairly decent PC when I bought it.

[@longbridge4029]

I see you have a 2TB internal drive. Do you keep the library on that drive, or on an external? I've been wondering what kind of speed increases I'd see on the 24" iMac with my library on a spinning (not SSD) external drive.

[@smittyone66]

Thanks I have been looking at the 16” did you get the 1TB or the 512 GB?

[@RichardLaurence]

I have a new iMac 8 core and 8Gb RAM. I am using it for general use, so didn’t need the 16Gb version. Out of interest, I tried processing some of my 50mb Canon files. Everything is much quicker than my iMac 27” 5K, even opening files from LR into PS.

[@CWReace]

Just got back from a week-long trip where I used my old 2016-ish MacBook Pro, and it was somewhat aggravating now that I'm used to the performance on the M1 Mac Mini I got almost a year ago. Since the M1 Mini is way less expensive than a new MacBook M1, people might want to consider it if you don't need the portability of a MacBook, especially if you already have a good monitor to use with it. 🙂

[@marcrjacobs]

Nice video, thanks. I too have the same computer with 64gb Ram and a 4tb ssd. I love it with LR Classic. It flat hauls and I have just ok 100,000 photos.

[@ronyedin]

How does it fair with importing and export times with several adjustments/edited photos?

[@leafsfan71]

Does Dropbox work now with M1 MacBook Pro’s?

[@fran_reina]

Hi Anthony, I have some questions that would be great if you can answer :) - Where do you have located the LR catalogue (Mac hard drive, external hard drive...)? - Where do you store your photos during the development (Mac hard drive, external...)? - Do you think a 16GB Ram would be enough if I store the LR catalogue and photos for the development in an external hard drive like LaCie? Thank you!

[@montepaulson3131]

Good timing on the video! I just ordered mine two days ago, can't wait. unfortunately,I have to wait till the first week or two of January. ordered same spec.s except for 32GB unified memory as I would never exceed the 32gb as I'm not video intensive at all. I also went with 8TB to future proof my storage because I wanted to have a full working copy of my whole image file on the laptop so that I don't have to have external drives plugged in. I wish they had a 6TB option because that would've been the one I would have chosen. 4TB is too close to where I might be in 4-6 years. I'm currently using a 2016 MacBook Pro, and it's slow to even render thumbnails, stuttering scrolling etc. Thanks for all your videos, they are very helpful to an enthusiast bumbling my way through Lightroom. I'm slowly working my way through 2.3TB of images from 2006 to present keyboarding them so that I can find things in the future, otherwise they are just lost images sitting on the drives.

[@wernerjanssens3771]

Hey Antony For performance. You could have showed a HDR generation of 10 files or so…. ;-)

[@daleschusterman3873]

I have the same M1 Max 16" 32 gigs RAM, and when I run LR and PS I often get an error saying that I am out of application memory. Apple says this is a known issue and the engineers are working on it.

[@robgerety]

Known issue? Ugh. That's not good. $400 or 64 over 32. Might have to spring for it.

[@jimtipton8888]

Thanks for the video. I traded a 2019 16" MBP that had spec bumps for a 16" M1 Max 24/32/2TB and this thing flies! I haven't. heard the fans spin up once. The 2019 would sound like a hair dryer on high with even the slightest pressure put on the CPU. Affinity and On1 are definitely quicker on the new machine and render HDR and Panos much quicker in both programs.

[@alexeast3408]

I have a the 2021 MacBook 16" M1 and I find it incredibly slow to go between images on the develop tab. I shoot real estate and I could be shooting multiple homes in a day and I need cull 100's of photos quickly. It lags like crazy. I just switched from a 2013 MacBook Pro with the old hardcopy of Lightroom and it was way faster. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

[@pieternoordzij]

The speed of the Apple M1 chip is incredable. I recently upgraded from a 13" MacBook Air 2017 to a 13" MacBook Air late 2020 with the Apple M1 chip. Processing a 50 Mega Pixel image with Topaz Denoise took 7 minutes and now with the new MacBook it's under 12 seconds! Amazing, really amazing.

[@cybergeek1957]

Hello Anthony first let me say how much I’m enjoying your channel, I always enjoy your tutorials and learn from them! I’ve always been a pc windows guy but with Apple’s new M1 systems I recently bought a 16” MacBook Pro M1 max, 32gb ram, 1 terabyte drive for use editing photos and video. I’m struggling with learning the Mac Monterey O.S. However I’m sure I will eventually adapt to it. So far I have a couple disappointments that I hope in time will get fixed through software updates. I enjoy using NIK filter plugins when editing in photoshop and sadly non of the versions seem to be compatible with M1 / Monterey O.S. Which is a real bummer. Also Topaz Studio 2 would not run unless I enabled use of Rosetta (not sure what that is) but it seemed to slow down Lightroom and photoshop and the Topaz Studio can only be used externally from photoshop. I’m hoping an update will come along to not need to use Rosetta, and allow use of NIK filters and Topaz Studio 2 with M1 / Monterey O.S.

[@JgHobley]

My 16" M1 MBP is painfully slow when I'm scrolling through my images. I only use JPG files and after 7 or 8, I get the spinning ball. Very annoying!!

[@jerhall95945]

I would like to see you do a similar quick review the M1 Mac Air. My surprising experience is that it is just about as fast as the first MacBook Pro M1. All day battery life. Far less expensive. No fan, runs cool. As fast or faster with LR/ACR and PS as my 27" iMac (latest version.) A bargain for enthusiast photographers. I am not bothered by the smaller screen size, but others might be. Best laptop I have ever had. I suspect the Mac mini M1 would provide similar performance. Don't know how they would take on the challenge of heavy video editing for KZbinrs such as your self. Thanks for you good video.

[@alangibson3293]

And the worst part of buying any new Mac these days, except for maybe the Mac Pro, they cannot be upgraded as all components are now soldered into the motherboard. Steve would be spinning in his grave right now. Well done Tim, not a good move.

[@WhittyPics]

Just wait for the big iMac to come. It will be even faster.

[@LarryFasnacht]

I bought a similar configuration. Mine was only 32/1TB but it’s still amazingly fast. In fact I bought a custom built PC from Puget Systems last year made just for Lightroom and Photoshop. The MacBook is faster. In fact I feel like I “over bought”. I’m sure that a lower specd unit would be just as well. I would love to know how you keep a catalog at home and one in the studio in sync on Lightroom Classic. I’m currently tracking over 235,000 images in my catalog.

[@robgerety]

I am curious - do you stitch big panos? How does that run and export etc. on your M1 Max? I am deciding now whether to go with 32 or 64 ram.

[@LarryFasnacht]

@@robgerety I’m currently on vacation in Florida and working off of the laptop entirely. I’m struck by how much faster it runs than the custom built Puget systems $5000 computer I bought last year. The M1 MacBook Pro runs rings around it. I’ve got 32 gig memory and I’ve never gotten close to maxing it out. I think it’s overkill. In fact I think the Max processors are overkill as well. I know from my sensor monitor that the fans have come on but I’ve never actually heard them. The battery life is incredible compared to every other laptop I’ve ever owned. It’s just amazing machine. I overbought though. I don’t do huge panos maybe 3 to 9 images. But the imports and exports run so fast on this machine it’s not even funny. Topaz labs, which I usually have to wait for on my windows PC, run almost in real time. I’m glad I didn’t get the 64 GB, in my case, it would’ve been a total waste of money.

[@robgerety]

@@LarryFasnacht I suspect I am in your category as far as use case. I am editing big raw stills (Canon R5) including occasioinal panos and then a sort video here and there. I do want this thing to last - might be my last computer.

[@LarryFasnacht]

@@robgerety My files are from the Nikon D850 a 45 megapixel camera and I also shoot raw. It handles these like they’re 6 MB JPEG‘s. Speed wise. You’ll love it.

[@robgerety]

@@LarryFasnacht The other issue for me that relates to ram is live music recording/tracking. The music folks are telling me to go with 64 GB. Its not cheap - $400 for 64 over 32. Still unsure but since this is my last hurrah, and I am fortunate at this stage of my life to have the resources, I'll probably spring for 64 gig in part to future proof but also knowing that it could well be a waste of $. I cannot wait to get this new machine. Unfortunately, wait is what you have to do these days. The shipping estimate is end of July.

[@ponymoore6140]

Oh yes! I wish :)

[@jamesss1953]

This is my experience with the new M1 16” MacBook Pro and Lightroom. Also, even photo merge from Lr to Ps with some 20+ images it is “QUICK”. Well worth the upgrade. Incidentally, video work from my drone In Filmora X is effortless too. What a significant change / improvement.

[@michalgrela8198]

i do more then scrolling in LR

[@iamjama8774]

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