New in beta: Software rendering option removed

In the latest beta of Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, the option to choose software rendering - “Mercury Playback Engine Software Only” - has been removed. Software rendering can cause poor performance and rendering in 8-bit, which can result in banding. In this beta and future released versions of our products, all rendering will be done using the GPU. 

As this change affects both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, we created a thread in the Premiere Pro beta forum to discuss this issue. If you've got comments, please see this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/new-in-beta-software-rendering-option-removed/td-p/15075725

Regards,

Fergus