By the way, if you used Adobe's Media Encoder to transcode that video to ProRes 422 or mp4, the export will come out with a completely blank audio track because Media Encoder has the exact same AC-3 support restriction as Premiere Pro itself. ... View more

The issue is not Adobe. It's Windows. You see, Adobe since version 2018 has restricted AC-3 codec support only to native OS support, which meant that Adobe can no longer include an AC-3 decoder or encoder in its video programs. Windows 11 previously supported the AC-3 codec for playbach until that support was removed beginning with the 24H2 feature update (only for clean installations of such newer feature update versions). Thus, if your Windows 11 PC was a fresh installation of 24H2 or 25H2, you get absolutely no AC-3 support at system level. Hence the need for the workaround mentioned above.   And VLC detects the AC-3 audio because it incorporates a "free-to-use" component of the AC-3 decoder, which is then partially reverse-engineered by the ffmpeg people to mimic the behavior of the actual Dolby Digital decoder and then restricted only for use in VLC and cannot be utilized by any other program. (Both Handbrake and Shutter Encoder also do this, as well because they, like VLC, use ffmpeg for both decoding and encoding media.) As a result, VLC (and Handbrake and Shutter Encoder as well) cannot use the trademarked Dolby Digital logo. ... View more

The first listed laptop should not even be considered at all at this point as it is of a very old CPU architecture with absolutely no AVX2 support whatsoever (in this case, the Pentium was derived from the Skylake (6th-Gen Intel Core) architecture but with AVX and AVX2 support permanently disabled during manufacture)-not to mention that its iGPU's OpenCL support is limited to version 1.2 (which in turn falls short of the new OpenCL 2.0 minimum that is required by version 25.6 onward). None of the currently available versions of Adobe Premiere, After Effects or Media Encoder will even install at all on that system.   As for the second, Adobe might install, but it would run poorly-almost as poorly as your current system. Hardware prices have risen significantly over the past year, such that you are now getting much less for your dollar than you did two or three years ago. ... View more

What Neil stated, except its name will be just Premiere and not Premiere Pro. Adobe has re-designated the "Pro" designation for its Creative Cloud products to the higher tier (with extensive Ai features) of the Creative Cloud "all apps" subscription-Creative Cloud Pro. The lesser, Ai-basic tier of the subscription is now called Creative Cloud Standard. ... View more

Yes, as another poster noted, the Intel CPUs that Apple used in its Macs of the time tend to run as hot as the throttle-down temperature of those CPUs. The slim iMac chassis cannot provide sufficient airflow to the thermally hungry 10-core/20-thread CPU, which results in unstable speeds. And the speeds may very well drop to below the minimum that Adobe and other NLEs require for any kind of stability. And that was part of the reason why Apple ditched Intel, with the final Intel Macs discontinued in early 2022, in favor of its own-designed ARM-derived silicon. ... View more

Every single NLE has a lot of problems, not just Adobe. Resolve, for example, does not even have a software encoder of its own, instead relying solely on the Windows-native Microsoft Media Foundation framework for H.264 and HEVC encoding, which in turn relies solely on whichever GPU hardware encoder installed by the GPU drivers. This actually delivers the worst of both worlds in terms of image quality: the fast quality of a low-quality encoder with the slower-than-expected performance that's typical of the highest-quality settings for a given hardware encoder. Thus, if your system were equipped with a CPU that required a discrete GPU just to even run at all, and your chosen GPU lacks a hardware encoder, Resolve will simply have the H.264 and HEVC exporting choices grayed out, making them completely unavailable.   The paid Studio version offers GPU-acceleration of its own plus additional encoding options for the MMF hardware encoding framework (hence the "hardware" instead of the "native" encoding mode).   And only the Studio version can utilize software encoding-and only with a third-party, added-cost plugin which includes this encoder. That saves Blackmagic Design the costs of including its own encoder for H.264 and HEVC.   Moreover, Resolve cannot read AC3 files that are embedded in any viddo file; such files are simply imported with no audio. ... View more

I am placing some of the blame on the entire computer tech industry's "race to the top." That is, hardware is pushing to higher and higher prices while the cheap hardware either stagnates or disappears.   And support for Windows 10 officially ended this past October, with no more free security updates, meaning that its continued usage while online may lead to an increased risk of external hacks, malware or ransomware.   Hence, the need for software companies to incorporate Ai in their software. Had a software program ditched Ai in favor of stability, this would result in that software falling far behind everybody else while also increasing in price, making the "stable" product a highly niche product that's so expensive that very few individuals would even want to purchase.   I am sorry, but that's the way it is. ... View more

Expanding on that:   In other words, running the 25.6 or newer versions of Premiere Pro with unsupported drivers or hardware now completely breaks the Mercury Playback Engine itself, not just throw up error messages, because it has absolutely no software-rendering mode at all (or more specifically, it can no longer begin rendering in software-only mode no matter what). Thus, a catastrophic failure. ... View more

That driver is actually even older than the one in question (in this case, version 388.73 instead of 425.31). Premiere from version 23.x onwards (version 2023 or newer) will no longer function properly with the 920m no matter which driver you use while the version you linked to won't work properly in Premiere versions older than version 12 (CC 2018). The 388.73 driver does not support even CUDA 9.2, let alone the current latest version.   What happens is that you might circumvent the warning issue but any attempts of working with any footage with GPU effects will show corruption and may trigger multiple error messages. ... View more

Next thing to try:   You might not have a sufficient amount of total installed system RAM for the video content you're trying to decode. You see, the integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics does not have its own discrete VRAM at all, but actually "steals" system RAM for itself. And when the anount of reserved system RAM gets depleted, the job falls back into software-only mode.   When the decoding resources for the Intel iGPU gets depleted, the decoding job then switches to the Nvidia mode (in your particular case) only for its own discrete VRAM to get fully depleted as well, thus forcing software-only decoding for the remainder of the playback job.   The only solution to this is simple: Add more RAM to your system (assuming that you can add to or replace the pre-installed DDR4 laptop RAM modules yourself).   The only reason why version 24 worked but 25 didn't work properly goes back to the system RAM usage: Adding more features and additional format support inevitably bloats the system RAM usage on newer versions. In other words, your laptop is ill-prepared for newer "must-have" features. ... View more

For some strange reason it started working since at least yesterday, at least on my primary i9-14900K/RTX 5070 Ti rig. The Adobe Stock panel now began to show something whereas previously it failed to load at all.   As a result of this development, the interface started working normally again (at least for me). ... View more

Actually, you are not in software only. There has been a change in Premiere Pro beginning with version 25.2 which depreciated the software-only rendering option. You are actually permanently locked to the CUDA acceleration, not the software-only mode. The software-only mode can no longer be accessed witnin Premiere Pro, and the selection for the renderer now only works if you have a GPU that supports CUDA and a GPU which supports OpenCL installed in the same system.   The screenshot that you provided showed the exact rendering mode within the grayed-out window - in this case, CUDA has already been enabled, and you can no longer disable it.   The software-only mode could be accessed only in the troubleshooting menu from 25.2 up to and including 25.5 by holding down the Shift key while launching Premiere Pro. But beginning with 25.6, even the software-only rendering option is completely removed (or at least completely relegated to a fallback mode which is activated whenever the GPU's VRAM is depleted), in conjunction with the new requirement of OpenCL 2.0 support now required, resulted in systems running very old GPUs now no longer being able to run Premiere Pro 25.6 or higher properly (in this case, the grayed-out rendering mode window will no longer show anything at all, and you will receive a warning/error message about unsupported GPU hardware and the potential for corrupted renders).   And the current point version, 25.6.x, will be the very last version of Premiere Pro (as far as the "Pro" designation is concerned); beginning with the forthcoming version 26, the desktop Premiere app will be renamed to "Premiere for Desktop" (the "Pro" designation will now be applied to the higher-tier Ai-laden version of the Creative Cloud "all apps" subscription (Creative Cloud Pro), with the Ai-light tier now called Creative Cloud Standard). When Premiere for Desktop version 26 hits general release, expect it to be flagged as "Not compatible" if your PC has a very old GPU whose OpenCL support is limited to 1.2 or earlier or nonexistent; in that case, the Creative Cloud desktop app will default the Premiere installation to version 25.1 or whichever point version of 25.x that Adobe deems sutiable for such an old GPU. Currently, Premiere shows up as "Not compatible" if your system is running an outdated operating system (OS) or is equipped with an old CPU which lacks AVX2 hardware support. ... View more

To clarify the OpenCL issue, it was not an OpenCL version requirement that was the cause. It was that Adobe programs were, and still are, picky about AMD driver versions yet Adobe does not indicate which ones are compatible or supported.   Besides, up to and including version 25.5, any version of OpenCL, including the first public release 1.0, were technically supported. But starting with version 25.6.x, OpenCL 2.0 support is now required. This eliminates all AMD GPUs older than about 2012 (and even some AMD GPUs manufactured up to and including 2016), as well as all Nvidia GPUs older than Maxwell. Combined with the complete elimination of the software-only rendering mode, systems using these GPUs will now be blocked from installing 25.6 or higher, resulting in 25.5 now becoming the end of the Premiere Pro road for these older GPUs.   And beginning with the forthcoming version 26, the "Pro" designation (having been re-assigned to the higher-tier Ai-laden version of the Creative Cloud "all apps" subscription suite) will be dropped from Premiere, resulting in Premiere for Desktop becoming the official successor to Premiere Pro. ... View more

What I was assuming is it applies to those MacBook displays that lack reference modes (it is the case in its default Color LCD profile). You may have a separate display or a display that's built into a higher-end MacBook, both of which could be configured to the mode that you stated. ... View more

Your Mac's display itself is to blame. Without reference modes or at default settings, your Mac display's gamma itself is only 1.96 to begin with. But then, you export with the gamma of 2.2, and YouTube really shows you the mismatch between the intended output and your monitor. As a result, what looks proper on your Mac's display will not look right on anything else, regardless of what you output.   The only way to circumvent this behavior is to change the profile settings on your Mac's display. ... View more

There will be no entry level option whatsoever. The last time premiere Pro was offered on a non-subscription basis, it cost almost $1,000 USD up front by itself. That price would have been even higher today had the perpetual license model continued.   As for the suggestion of Premiere Elements, be aware that it will be missing some of the features that you may use frequently, and that it has absolutely no software H.264 or HEVC encoder on its own (you will be stuck with GPU hardware encoding or "native" Microsoft Media Foundation encoding, depending on the capabilities of your GPU). ... View more

After further attempts at exporting directly within Premiere Pro, it turned out to be the "NEW" Adobe Stock panel that's the culprit, particularly when it just hangs trying to load content - but it works properly only if you have any content in your Adobe Stock library. If you don't have any Stock content, that panel will hang. And when it hangs, the Premiere Pro interface will then become partially handicapped.   Closing the NEW Adobe Stock panel solved that particular issue. ... View more

The workaround suggested by Dani worked for me as well. I am not suggesting that you roll back to 25.5; it's that the 25.6.x export mode is currently broken. Hence the suggested workaround: Queue to Media Encoder instead of exporting directly in Premiere. ... View more

Both 25.6.1 and 25.6.2 have issues on both of the systems that I have Premiere pro installed on. The Export and Import tabs, as well as some of the interface buttons, don't work at all. The only way that I can import videos into any of the 25.6.x versions is to use the Media Browser within the Project window. And the only way that I can  export videos that have been edited in any of the 25.6.x versions of Premiere Pro is to run Media Encoder and import timelines from my Premiere Pro projects into the Queue window.   As it stands, all of the 25.6.x versions of Premiere Pro that have been released have a broken interface. The last version of Premiere Pro to have a properly working interface was the previous point release (25.5). ... View more

The 5070 Ti came in. No problems installing it on my main PC. However, upgrading my secondary ITX PC proved somewhat frustrating as my 4070 Ti was too thick to fit inside my particular ITX case: It does not claim to be SFF-ready, and its thickness exceeds the 50mm maximum thickness to qualify as SFF-compatible although its length is just short enough to fit in the case. As a result, I may have to switch from ITX to microATX (mATX) to complete the upgrade.   And reusing another old-school ATX case is out of the question as it cannot accommodate triple-fan GPUs of any kind due to the permamently welded drive case at the front of its interior.   As a result, for now my RTX 2060 SUPER will remain in my SFF secondary PC for the time being while the guest PC will have to settle for integrated Intel graphics 770 that's on the i7-12700K (also for the time being).   The 5070 TI does achieve a nice improvement in performance over the 4070 TI that was in my main PC until today. The 4070 Ti definitely held back my PC's video editing performance.   The 4070 Ti will be sitting inside a box until I upgrade my secondary PC to a slightly larger case (which will take weeks, if not months, to purchase as I spent a lot of money in such a short time). Then again, I might re-sell my 4070 Ti, and use the proceeds to fund the purchase of an SFF-ready mid-level 5060 TI or 5070 non-Ti GPU for my existing ITX system.   So, which path would you hardware experts recommend? ... View more

One final update for 2025:   I placed an order for a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti to upgrade my Intel i9-14900K main PC's GPU, which is currently an RTX 4070 Ti. That 4070 Ti will then move on to my secondary AMD Ryzen 5 7600X ITX system, which in turn will displace its RTX 2060 SUPER to a third, soon-to-be-built PC for guest use. ... View more

The problem is that Premiere Pro and Resolve both utilize the GPU differently.   Second, the GeForce RTX 4000 (Ada) series never supported 4:2:2 hardware decoding at all; only the newer 5000 (Blackwell) series GPUs do. This means that on your PC all decoding went directly to the CPU, in software-only decoding mode, whether in Premiere Pro or Resolve. It boils down to the fact that Resolve offers some rendering features which are accelerated by the GPU whereas Adobe still doesn't yet support hardware rendering of those features. ... View more

Also, starting with version 25.6.x, even that software-only rendering option has been removed from the troubleshooting menu. So, effectively, beginning with 25.6.x, a GPU that supports GPU hardware accelerated rendering will now be required in order to even use Premiere Pro at all. And in an upcoming major version release of Premiere Pro, you will no longer be able to install that version or any future version of Premiere Pro if your GPU is either too old (for Nvidia, Kepler or older architecture) or lacks the minimum required amount of VRAM. ... View more

25.6 was withdrawn. 25.6.1 is now the latest public release version. ... View more

In your case, that ship had already left a few months ago. You see, beginning with version 24, Premiere Pro now requires a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions and have that support enabled in order to even install at all. Unfortunately, your CPU was released before Intel implemented AVX2 support in its CPUs. And the last version of Premiere Pro that supported non-AVX2 CPUs—version 23.6.8—was removed from availability with the release of version 25.2.   And even if your CPU did support AVX2, you cannot install or update Premiere Pro past version 25.3 on a Mac that's running Monterey.   As to why older versions were removed, it has something to do with the licensing of third parties which Adobe gets some of its apps' functionality from: Only for a limited time for any given version. And once the agreement expires, it cannot be renewed since the companies declared the relevant versions of the plugins and features as "obsolete" and "unsupported". Adobe cannot do anything about this, in this case. ... View more

Actually, your situation is a little different from that of the original poster's. You see, the original poster's dilemna was largely OS-related while your situation may be hardware-related. You may have a CPU that does not support AVX2 instructions, such as an old, pre-Haswell CPU or a low-end CPU which either has AVX2 support disabled during manufacture or completely lacking, such as most Intel Pentium- and Celeron-branded CPUs sold all the way into 2022 (the Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 CPUs using the same architecture sold from 2013 onwards have AVX2 support enabled, with the exception of the HEDT 4800- and 4900-series Intel Core i7 desktop CPUs which are derived from an older architecture that completely lacks AVX2 support).   If your CPU is one of those aforementioned CPUs which are known to lack AVX2 support, then all of the Adobe video programs (Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects) will be flagged as "Not compatible". This warning for incompatible CPU hardware began appearing with the release of Premiere Pro 25.2, which resulted in the removal of version 23.6.8 from availability. Prior to the release of version 25.2, Premiere Pro installers from the Creative Cloud desktop front end would default to version 23.6.8 on such PCs. ... View more

Since you cannot upgrade anything internally in that MacBook Pro, your only solution is a brand new Apple Silicon MacBook. You can no longer purchase a new Intel CPU-powered Mac-anything. And among the Apple Silicon Macs, buy the one with the best balance between the CPU, RAM and internal SSD storage that you can afford. That may mean that you may have to sacrifice the CPU slightly in order to get a sufficient amount of RAM and a sufficiently large internal SSD for your workflow needs. You would not want to go whole hog on the CPU only to be forced into making serious sacrifices in the amount of RAM and having to settle for an insufficiently-sized internal SSD. A GPU with more cores within the same Apple Silicon family (say, between two different GPU offerings within the Apple M4 Max group) is nice to have, but not really necessary given the minimal difference in GPU rendering performance between the two versions. ... View more

The only way to circumvent this behavior (and it occurs in both Windows 10 and Windows 11) is to back up your Adobe folders from the My Documents folder to another location, and then disable syncing before you copy the folder and files that you just backed up back into the My Documents folder. The OneDrive sync will then no longer delete your Premiere or Adobe files because it will then no longer function. ... View more

I apologize for the late response. But yes, it will handle FHD (1080p) workflows, as well as shorter-form 4k workflows.   Just two more upgrades to that system would make it an all-around 4k video editing workstation: The RAM and the GPU. 32 GB is fine for shorter-form 4k workflows, but I would bump the RAM amount to 64 GB or 96 GB, as well as replacing that 8 GB GPU (remember, the RTX 4060 only comes in an 8 GB version) with one that has 12 or more GB of VRAM, for general 4k workflows.   And since you already have the system, I would make the upgrades only when necessary. ... View more