Adobe Has Released An ARM Version of Premiere Pro!

Adobe is one of the businesses working round the clock to optimize their applications for the new Apple Silicon processor, and now another beta is obtainable for testers.

Adobe has released an ARM version of Premiere Pro for macOS, allowing owners of recent Macs with an Apple M1 chip to use the video editing software natively. However, the app remains in beta for now, and Adobe’s post announcing its availability lists a bunch of known bugs and missing features. Besides Premiere Pro, Adobe also reports that Premiere Rush and Audition have also been updated to figure on the new machines.

Apple Silicon compatibility

Adobe explains that the complexity of its software requires the corporate to roll out Apple Silicon compatibility in phases, which is able to take it slow until the work thereon is completed.

Adobe says it’s bringing the functionality of Premiere Pro in phases, starting with its basic editing functions and workspaces, likewise as popular codecs like H.264, HEVC, and ProRes. Third-party integrations will be updated by their respective developers to figure on Apple Silicon.

Adobe advises users to run this version of Premiere Pro on M1 Macs using Rosetta 2 emulation while the ARM version remains in development, although some third-party integrations might not add this mode.

Several known issues

While work to bring Premiere Pro to Apple Silicon continues to be ongoing, the present beta contains a series of known issues, including a whole crash that will occur at launch if the app is about to the Chinese language.

Premiere Pro joins other Adobe applications, including Photoshop and Lightroom, which have seen the discharge of the new ARM-based Macs. this is often a comparatively short timeframe for Adobe, only if the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini were released just over a month ago.