However, as you plan your next purchase, looking for a system with at least a T2 chip will make media compression MUCH faster.īecause my current production computers do not have either a T2 or M1 chip, I’m holding off doing any more compression speed tests until I can get a newer system.Quote from: brucehoult on December 07, 2020, 11:37:35 am I expect i could make a pretty good count of the x86 cores in this house. I should note that you can’t add these chips to older Macs, so these are not upgrade options. Given the speed and quality of today’s hardware-accelerated compression, there are very few reasons to use the Multi-pass option today. In the past, we would do this to improve image quality. NOTE: On another note, Multi-pass also switches to software-based encoding. Again, the Faster Encoding type option should be selected. Setting the Encoder type to Slower performs compression using software, which is much, much, much slower.Īs well, recent Intel-based Mac computers can use the T2 chip to hardware accelerate 8-bit HEVC and 10-bit HEVC encoding. To enable hardware acceleration, be sure to select Faster for the Encoding type in the Video Inspector. NOTE: HDR media requires using a 10-bit codec, which is why compressing 10-bit HEVC quickly is important. This vastly speeds compression of these codecs. The new M1 chip from Apple (part of the three new Macs launched last week) can accelerate encoding of H.264, 8-bit HEVC, and 10-bit HEVC using hardware.

(Click for free registration.)Īs I was preparing last week’s webinar on media compression in Apple Compressor ( link) I learned the following: I first wrote about this for an Inside Tip.

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