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Adobe releases Apple M1 support for Premiere Pro

Adobe releases Apple M1 support for Premiere Pro

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A beta has been available since December

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The space gray Apple MacBook Air M1 sitting on a light-colored wood desk, facing away from the camera with its lid open and showing its Apple logo.
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Adobe’s Premiere Pro is now ready for everyone using an M1 Mac. Support for Apple’s new chips is rolling out today, after launching in beta in December. Adobe says there are speed increases throughout the app, from a 50 percent faster launch to 77 percent faster “editing,” whatever that giant term encompasses.

Apple released its first computers with M1 chips in November. Though they’re able to run apps that were built for machines with Intel processors, programs had to be updated to take full advantage of the M1’s speed improvements. Getting Adobe on board was always going to be a necessity — its apps are critical creative tools for many industries — and fortunately, Adobe has been fairly quick to get updates out the door for its biggest apps. Lightroom for M1 launched in December, Photoshop for M1 launched in March, and Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, and InDesign for M1 launched in June. Adobe Character Animator and Media Encoder are getting M1 support today, too.

Premiere Pro is also getting some other feature updates in its July release. The biggest is a speech to text feature, previously in beta, that’s able to automatically generate a video transcript. There’s also a new captions customization feature that lets you adjust how that text might display on your video.