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Adobe has released beta versions of Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Audition builds with native support for the new Apple M1 Macs with much faster media export and scene detection than software on Intel-based Macs.
Adobe’s new beta software line adds to the options available to creatives who have upgraded to Apple’s fast M1 hardware: the Mac mini, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Many creatives might be looking forward to Apple’s next-generation M-series Macs, which will likely cater to professionals who need higher-performance desktop hardware. But the existing line has been found to challenge Apple’s high-end Intel-based MacBook Pros.
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Adobe released the beta version of Photoshop running on Apple’s silicon in November, marking a major shift in the software ecosystem around Apple chips and a departure from Intel chips.
Microsoft had been using Rosetta 2 to translate its Intel-based Office for Arm, but last week it released several Office 365 applications with native support for Apple’s Arm-based silicon. It released the Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications as universal applications that run on Apple’s M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
The creators of the Zoom video calling app also released a new version this week that is compatible with Apple’s Mac M1 laptops.
Premiere Pro Beta, native to Adobe M1, includes the main editing functions and compatibility with the most used codecs: H.264, HEVC and ProRes.
Adobe testing suggests H.264 export times for YouTube on the 13-inch MacBook Pro M1 are on par with the 16-inch high-end Intel MacBook Pro and easily outperform the 13-inch MacBook Pro with a chip. Intel.
Adobe also notes that features like scene edit detection increase performance due to the machine learning abilities of the Mac M1s. Google employees recently discovered that the MacBook Pro M1 with its 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU and 16-core neural engine, easily beat a 13-inch MacBook Pro system with Intel Core i7 quad-core at 1 , 7 GHz with Intel Iris Plus 645 graphics, 16 GB of RAM and 2 TB SSD.
According to Adobe, the native M1 version of Premier Pro’s scene editing detection in Adobe Sensei completes in 17 seconds compared to 71 seconds for the feature on a 16-inch Intel MacBook Pro.
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Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition, and Premiere Rush will have full native support for Apple M1 systems on macOS in the first half of 2021.
The company will begin work on native Apple M1 support for After Effects and Character Animator next year.
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