Anyone curious to see how a native version of Adobe Premiere Pro runs on Apple Silicon now has the chance. Last week, Abode released a beta version of Premiere Pro for M1 systems, reports The Verge, join the already released beta versions of Photoshop and Lightroom.
Early adopters of Apple’s latest Macs who have relied on Rosetta 2 to translate the Intel version of the software, you don’t have to do that anymore – assuming they don’t have to do anything more than convert a video to a popular format or use one of the advanced features.
In his blog, Adobe says the beta includes all core editing features and workflows, such as “color, graphics, and audio,” in addition to Productions features and multicam. 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 switching from the Premiere Pro Intel version to the Apple M1 version will need to upgrade their project file format. The Apple M1 version uses the new subtitle workflow, which is also in beta. Of course, save a backup of your project before upgrading the file format, in case something goes wrong.
But like Photoshop, the Premiere Pro beta is comprcurrently only of the core functions. (Lightroom is a full version.) Many features are still missing: After Effects and Media Encoder are not ready yet, so anyone who needs to use them will have to run the Intel version of Adobe Premiere Pro through Rosetta 2. Depending on which features and functions of Premiere Pro you regularly use, it may be a better idea to keep using the Intel version under emulation and wait for Adobe to complete a full version.
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It should also be noted that at the time of publishing this article, Adobe is using the Premiere Pro User Guide include requirements for M1 systems, nor updated this page to note that Premiere Pro is now available in beta for Apple Silicon. To find the beta version of Premiere Pro, users must enter their Creative Cloud desktop app and navigate to it Beta apps section.
Depending on the task, some things, such as converting a video file, can be slow when a non-native program is running through Rosetta 2. Gizmodo compared how long it took to convert a variety of files into different programs on Apple Silicon Versu. to convertsome Intel and AMD based systems, and the results were mixed. For example, converting an MP4 video to HEVC took 4.6 minutes on the MacBalso Pro compared with 1.4 minutes on the MSI Prestige 14 Evo, which has an Intel Core i7-1185G7 with Iris Xe images.
However, it takes 3.1 minutes to run the same test again with the native M1 beta version. This has a lot to do with how the M1 chip handles information compared to Intel and AMD chips, which you can read more about it here. Right now, Premiere Pro users have to compromise if they own an M1 Mac: either give up some advanced program features and may run into some bugs, or use the Intel version and give up some speed.