Mac Studio and sluggish C1
My new Mac Studio (M1 Max 32 core GPU, 64GB Ram, 2tb SSD) arrived last night and started playing around with it on C1 this morning with the LG 27" Ultrafine 5k (set to 4k) and am disappointed so far by the performance of C1. I was using a 2019 5k iMack i9 with 64GB ram previously. I am seeing a big speed boost in everything except C1. I created a new catalog and imported about 300 R5 files from a recent shoot and although the import speed seemed a bit speedier than the iMac, when it came time to make selects and do some editing, it was painfully laggy. When I switched the display back to native resolution, it sped it up a bit, but there is still noticeable lag.
If you are on the fence about getting a new Mac Studio, you are not going to see a real speed benefit in Capture One, and in my case, I think I have taken a hit in processing speed versus my 2019 iMac running in low resolution mode. Everything else (non C1 apps) run great and with easily apparent speed gains. The Mac Studio seems to be an amazing little computer, it is just not well supported by C1 at this point.
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Just curious about your observations. Did you carry out selects and try some editing while the import was proceeding? It is my understanding that generation of the previews has not been "optimized" yet to make use of the M1 chip by Capture One.
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Ahh excellent question. I should have added that to my original post. I did wait for the previews to be generated before I started making selects and using editing tools.
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Have you tried running it with the monitor at native 5K? I saw something recently about scaling down display res on macOS is more taxing than at native res.
On a side note, how does the C1 UI scale at 5K/4K? I'm looking to get a 32" 4K monitor, just not sure as I need the UI to fill the screen.
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My new Mac Studio (M1 Max 32 core GPU, 64GB Ram, 2tb SSD) arrived last night and started playing around with it on C1 this morning with the LG 27" Ultrafine 5k (set to 4k) and am disappointed so far by the performance of C1.
I know this doesn't help you, but in his last live edit, Paul Reiffer seemed very happy with his Studio - and he owns a top spec Mac Pro.
That said, in response to a question, he did express the view that C1 wasn't using the full potential of the M1.
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I’m definitely happy with the Mac Studio and its performance. I’m just disappointed at how sluggish C1 is even with what is now a higher end Mac with the M1.
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Paul Reiffer is using a maxed out M1Ultra - is this what it takes to be "happy"? Is anyone on this forum using a 2560 x 1440 monitor with Mac Studio (M1 Max 32 core GPU, 64GB Ram, 2tb SSD)?
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I’m definitely happy with the Mac Studio and its performance. I’m just disappointed at how sluggish C1 is even with what is now a higher end Mac with the M1.
Indeed. In this video, it was suggested that neither C1 nor Adobe are trying very hard to optimise their products for Apple silicon.
Of course, this doesn't impact on those of us using steam-driven iMacs. 😆
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From my non-scientific analysis, it actually seems like Photoshop and Lightroom are faster and very responsive. Now I have not been a working Lightroom user for quite a few years, having migrated fully over to C1, but editing the same R5 files in Lightroom is much faster and without lag, even at 5k, interestingly enough.
I just hope C1 gets on board with optimizing the M1 performance... and I hope they are quicker than they have been about profiling the Canon RF 70-200 2.8... a lens released two years ago and we are still waiting...
As far as the UI on different screens, it all looks fine. The lower the resolution you use on the screen, the larger the image is (good for looking at detail) but also the larger the tools are on the side, which means more scrolling up and down to make corrections, which just takes time.
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Comparing Lightroom Classic and Capture One performance/speed (on a MacBook Pro M1 Max 64 GB), the most obvious difference I've noticed is with database/catalogue handling. Searching/filtering in Capture One is unbelievably slow compared to Lightroom. When searching for a file name in Lightroom, the result comes up almost instantaneously, whereas in Capture One it takes 7-8 seconds, during which time Capture One becomes unresponsive. (This is with a CO catalogue containing just below 45k images/variants, and a LR catalogue containing more than 48k images/variants.)
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It is true that C1 catalog performance is slower than Lr, but then again in C1 you don’t have to constantly switch between stupid Develop and Library modes. Personally I’ll take a performance hit over a straightjacket User Experience designed by engineers for engineers.
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"in C1 you don’t have to constantly switch between stupid Develop and Library modes"
I've never found this to be a problem; with shortcuts switching is instantaneous.
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