Anyone curious to see how a native version of Adobe Premiere Pro runs on Apple Silicon now has a chance. Last week, Abode released a beta version of Premiere Pro for M1 systems, reports The Verge, joining those already released beta versions of Photoshop and Lightroom.
The first adopters of the newest Apple Macs they relied on Rosette 2 to translate the Intel version of the software you no longer have to do this – assuming you only need to convert a video to a popular format or use any of the advanced features.
Into the his blog says Adobe beta includes all basic editing functions and workflows, such as “color, graphics, and audio,” in addition to the Productions and multicam functions. It also supports some of the most popular video codecs, such as H.264, HEVC and ProRes,as well as JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP and HEIF / HEIC extensions.
Adobe also notes that anyone upgrading from the Intel Premiere Pro version to the Apple M1 version will need to update their project file format. The Apple M1 version uses workflow for new subtitles, which is also in beta. Needless to say, you save a backup of the project before updating the file format, just in case something goes wrong.
But, like Photoshop, Premiere Pro beta is copperit is only currently the basic functions. (Lightroom is a full version.) Many features are still missing: After Effects and Media Encoder aren’t ready yet, so anyone who needs to use them will need to run the Intel version of Adobe Premiere Pro via Rosetta 2. Depending on the features and functions of Premiere Pro that you use on a regular basis, it would be a better idea to continue to use the Intel version under emulation and wait until Adobe completes a full version.
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It should also be noted that at the time of publication of this article, Adobe has not updated Premiere Pro User Guide include requirements for M1 systems, nor updated this page Note that Premiere Pro is now available in beta for Apple Silicon. To find the beta version of Premiere Pro, users will need to open their file Creative Cloud desktop application and navigate to Beta applications section.
Depending on the task, some things, such as converting a video file, may be slow if a non-native program is running Rosetta 2. Gizmodo compared how long it took to convert a variety of files into different programs on the Apple Silicon versionsome systems based on Intel and AMD, and the results were mixed. Converting an MP4 video to HEVC, for example, took 4.6 minutes on a MacBook Pro compared to 1.4 minutes on the MSI Prestige 14 Evo, which has an Intel Core i7-1185G7 with Iris Xe graphics.
However, running the same test again with the native M1 beta takes 3.1 minutes. This has a lot to do with how the M1 chip processes information compared to Intel and AMD chips, which you can read here. At this point, Premiere Pro users have to make a compromise if they own a Mac M1: either give up some advanced features of the program and possibly face some errors, or use the Intel version and sacrifice a certain speed.