Adobe releases Apple Silicon version of Premiere Pro in beta
- Technology
- December 22, 2020
Adobe has released an Arm version of Premiere Pro for macOS, permitting proprietors of new Apple Silicon M1 Macs to run the video editing software natively. The program is still particularly in beta for the time being, nonetheless, and the Adobe post reporting its accessibility lists a host of known bugs and missing features. Information on its release was spotted by The 8-Bit, and MacRumors adds that Adobe’s Premiere Rush and Audition have likewise been updated to run on the new machines.
Adobe says it’s porting Premiere Pro’s features over in stages, beginning with its core editing functions and workflows, as well as well known codecs like H.264, HEVC, and ProRes. Third-party integrations should be updated by their individual designers to deal with Apple Silicon. Adobe prompts that clients can run the current release version of Premiere Pro on M1 Macs using Rosetta 2 imitating while the Arm version is as yet being developed, however some third-party integrations may not work in this mode.
Premiere Pro joins other Adobe applications including Photoshop and Lightroom that have seen releases for Apple’s new Arm-based Macs. It’s a generally quick turnaround for Adobe considering the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini were just released a little more than a month back.