Are M1 Mac's FINALLY Worth it for Premiere Pro Video Editing?

Testing M1 MacBook Pro with Premiere Pro 2021 15.4 Native Apple Silicon M1!

In this video, I test out the new native apple silicon version of Premiere Pro 2021 out of Premiere Pro BETA with a wide variety of codecs 4K stabilization, h.264 and h.265 HEVC and how these will do editing Canon R5 10-Bit 4:2:2 422 C-Log footage that's also in the Canon R6 and C70, c300 mkii, and more cameras.

I also test other raw such as Canon Cinema RAW Lite from c200, Red .R3D and more from with metal graphics decoding. In my next video I will test 8GB vs 16GB RAM for video editing on the 2020 13" MacBook pro with M1 processor.

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[mijnheertenhave]

Main three reasons for me to drop PP: Slow, buggy and expensive

[warmed]

And this is one more reason why I'm natively a FCPX person. I'm so tired of the "Industry Standard" argument.

[WarriorsPhoto]

I am not surprised Max. I wasn’t expecting much myself.

Thank you for sharing this video. I know it took a while to make it.

[HVRIS]

I recently switched to final cut and man I’m so glad I did 😩

[msnspy]

i would suggest adding the project files in the description so we can each get a real life comparison of ow systems to the m1 mac and if we should upgrade or not

[TheOriginalSageNations]

Yes, finally video on the Max Yuryev video 😍

[KokkiePiet]

So, Premiere pro is slower, is expensive and not very stable. Why does it have such a big install base on Mac?

[busybee]

Fcp handle all of this and even 8k like butter in M1 macs.... Its optimised like hell
Fcp all the way ❤❤

[TheWeddingIcon]

plz make same video on After Effect performance on m1 macbook pro.

[KelalaSeichi]

Thanks for your testing and hardwork on this. I appreciate it. Was really curious what the differences were going with native premiere on M1. Glad Adobe made the effort to get this far and just hoping they jump all the way in the pool and redo premiere to get it optimized all the way for M1.

[Nattodayy]

At this point, could it just be the code base of Premiere that’s keeping it from running faster?

[MelvsAmores]

Thank you for your video. It's pretty clear that Adobe is not focusing its efforts on having Premiere Pro run fast / natively on the M1 Macs. Somebody from the Apple Developers should pay them a visit and teach them how it's done.

[artemusj.]

Well, I guess I'll stick with Proxy workflow then..I have patience.

[alejmc]

We got a few blind Adobe fans over here: “what?! He is saying that some footage runs at less than 1FPS on Premiere Pro while it runs perfectly realtime buttery smooth on FCP or Resolve since over half a year ago? DOWNVOTE!”
I’m not saying let’s trash Adobe either and I do think that being native M1 is a step in the right direction but I’ll always be skeptical of anything they do.
They split software in tiny pieces, then they bloat each of those with features that nobody asked for, cloud/libraries/etc bloat inside your favorite app, all while leaving years of unfixed bugs untouched (I can’t believe for example that on Mac when doing Save As… to a PNG file and hitting “Replace the file” the damn thing doesn’t replace it and creates a new file for it.
“M1 Native”? Ok, sure, fine, let’s wait to see if they actually finish the job and use ALL of the M1 and not just compile to it.
One of the issue is that Adobe has used since forever their own legacy etc libraries and engines which requires a massive amount of work to keep up and update to current standards and systems upgrades.

[georges]

For an uknown reason Premiere Pro was always slower even in my Ryzen 3900x PC with RTX 3060Ti card compared to Davinci... But I have grown up with Premiere so, I m still using the old school techniques like proxy files and when I don't, I m just waiting patiently... I have bought the M1 Mac Air with 16GB Ram as a portable computer and for simple videos (not RAW) it is just fine for a laptop.

[nazhif]

Can't wait for a high end M1X / M2 powered 16"MBP

[Squidy]

Ditching Premiere Pro was literally the best creative decision I ever made. I'm only a hobbyist and it was frustrating on a high end system so I can only imagine how angry professionals would feel.

[GSGMotionFilms]

What about Adobe After Effects? Please show some tests of M1 Macbook Pro running After Effects.

[PlaytimeAdventureTV]

It's because the RAM is too low. 8GB isn't enough, even for the M1 chip. You need at least 16GB for decent 4K playback.

[zmanauz]

Could you do this video again but on the new M1 Pro macs?