Adobe has updated Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, InDesign to fully utilise the potential of Apple s M1 SoC. Third-party benchmarking test suggest that Lightroom is twice as fast, Illustrator is thrice as fast, and InDesign is thrice as fast on Apple M1-powered Mac computers as compared to its Intel counterparts. Additionally, Adobe has added a bunch of new features for Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.
Adobe Asks for Help Testing Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon
The first public beta is now available and Adobe wants everyone to test it out. By Matthew Humphries
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If you rely on Premiere Pro for digital video editing and have already upgraded to an ARM-based Mac, Adobe has some good news for you: the first beta of Premiere Pro for Apple Silicon is available now, but Adobe needs your help.
Posting on the Adobe Support Community, Adobe employee Francis-Crossman announced the first public beta of Premiere Pro that runs natively on Apple Silicon hardware is available. Explaining the beta process, Francis-Crossman said, Since Premiere Pro is built on a large codebase with support for a wide range of media and workflows, 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. And it