Adobe releases public beta of Premiere Pro for Apple Silicon

A native Apple Silicon edition of video editing software Adobe Premiere Pro is now available as a public beta.

Following its December 2020 limited beta release, an Apple Silicon M1 native edition of Adobe Premiere Pro has entered public beta.

"Since Premiere Pro is built on a large codebase with support for a wide range of media and workflows," announced the company in a blog post, "we will implement native support for Apple M1 in phases and some parts have not been ported yet."

"This phased approach allows us to validate performance and functionality for specific parts of the application before we add new components," it continues. "And it also allows you to start seeing the benefits now."

Adobe says that "the average editor is likely to see very little difference from the Intel version." The differences and current limitations, however, include how After Effects does not have an M1 version yet.

"The first public Beta includes all the core editing functions and workflows like color, graphics, and audio, as well as features like Productions, and multicam," says Adobe. "We prioritized support for the most widely used codecs, like H.264, HEVC, and ProRes."

Adobe is steadily updating its apps to Apple Silicon, and typically taking the same iterative approach. While Adobe Lightroom fully launched for M1 in December 2020, Photoshop for Apple Silicon only came out of beta in early March 2021, and then with caveats.

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11 Comments

bsbeamer 77 comments · 16 Years

About 3 years ago

This is good news for macOS moving forward, even if it's going to take awhile to transition there. Do not see abandoning Intel-based machines for production work anytime in the next 12-18 months, but 18-24 months should look fairly promising as additional AS machines are released. Fingers crossed we are not losing chunks of functionality in the process/transition.

rob53 3303 comments · 13 Years

bsbeamer said:

This is good news for macOS moving forward, even if it's going to take awhile to transition there. Do not see abandoning Intel-based machines for production work anytime in the next 12-18 months, but 18-24 months should look fairly promising as additional AS machines are released. Fingers crossed we are not losing chunks of functionality in the process/transition.

Not an Adobe user (anymore) but it does show how much influence Apple has on the market by forcing Adobe to hurry up and get their code ready for when the iMac and Mac Pro are released with Apple's M-series SoCs. Personally, I don't think you'll have to wait 18-24 months for Apple to release these Macs but you might have to wait for Adobe to complete their transition from their antique code base. It might take that long for plug-in vendors to complete the transition but if they were programming for macOS the correct way, the transition shouldn't be that bad.

Isn't Apple having another announcement any time??? Like in late March. One of these rumors will actually come true. Can't wait to see benchmarks, including Premiere, blow away Intel-based Macs. It's been too long for a change and Apple's entry level M1 shows what a quantum leap ASi already makes.

raulcristian 66 comments · 10 Years

Well done Adobe! Now Lightroom Classic pleeeeeaaaaaseeeee! :-)

nicholfd 826 comments · 6 Years

rob53 said:

bsbeamer said:

This is good news for macOS moving forward, even if it's going to take awhile to transition there. Do not see abandoning Intel-based machines for production work anytime in the next 12-18 months, but 18-24 months should look fairly promising as additional AS machines are released. Fingers crossed we are not losing chunks of functionality in the process/transition.

Not an Adobe user (anymore) but it does show how much influence Apple has on the market by forcing Adobe to hurry up and get their code ready for when the iMac and Mac Pro are released with Apple's M-series SoCs. Personally, I don't think you'll have to wait 18-24 months for Apple to release these Macs but you might have to wait for Adobe to complete their transition from their antique code base. It might take that long for plug-in vendors to complete the transition but if they were programming for macOS the correct way, the transition shouldn't be that bad.

Isn't Apple having another announcement any time??? Like in late March. One of these rumors will actually come true. Can't wait to see benchmarks, including Premiere, blow away Intel-based Macs. It's been too long for a change and Apple's entry level M1 shows what a quantum leap ASi already makes.

You might have missed it - your post is dated April 5th... March has come & gone.

sevenfeet 471 comments · 16 Years

rob53 said:

bsbeamer said:

This is good news for macOS moving forward, even if it's going to take awhile to transition there. Do not see abandoning Intel-based machines for production work anytime in the next 12-18 months, but 18-24 months should look fairly promising as additional AS machines are released. Fingers crossed we are not losing chunks of functionality in the process/transition.

Not an Adobe user (anymore) but it does show how much influence Apple has on the market by forcing Adobe to hurry up and get their code ready for when the iMac and Mac Pro are released with Apple's M-series SoCs. Personally, I don't think you'll have to wait 18-24 months for Apple to release these Macs but you might have to wait for Adobe to complete their transition from their antique code base. It might take that long for plug-in vendors to complete the transition but if they were programming for macOS the correct way, the transition shouldn't be that bad.

Isn't Apple having another announcement any time??? Like in late March. One of these rumors will actually come true. Can't wait to see benchmarks, including Premiere, blow away Intel-based Macs. It's been too long for a change and Apple's entry level M1 shows what a quantum leap ASi already makes.

Premiere Pro dates back nearly 20 years having launched in 2003 and its predecessor Adobe Premiere was released 30 years ago. Which means that it's one of those apps that has survived the transition from 68K -> PowerPC and PowerPC -> Intel before now. While I wouldn't expect 30 year old code to still be lurking in there, I'm sure there is lots of older Objective-C code that will need to be examined. And for problematic stuff, there's always the opportunity for a Swift migration, which takes time.