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Now in beta: hardware acceleration for more video formats

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February 14, 2024
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Update: This feature was released with version v24.4 of Adobe's video products. If you have questions or comments, please post them in the main Premiere Pro forum. Thank you for your feedback during the beta!

Beta versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder now include hardware acceleration for playback of more video formats:

AVC LongGOP in MXF
HEVC LongGOP in MXF
HEVC Intra in MXF

Knowing which format is used in what camea can be a little confusing! While the list below isn't exhaustive, it covers some of the more common options.

Sony

Cameras: ILME-FX6, PXW-FS5, PXW-FS7, PXW-FX9, PXW-Z190, PXW-Z280, PXW-Z450, PXW-Z750, BURANO

Formats: XAVC-L, XAVC H Intra, XAVC H Long,

Canon

Cameras: C300 Mark III, C70, XF605, XF705

Formats: XF-AVC LongGOP

Panasonic

Cameras: CX series, P2HD series

Formats: AVC-LongG50, AVC-LongG25, AVC-LongG12

~~Currently, hardware acceleration is available on Apple silicon computers. Support for Windows computers is coming soon.~~

Update 3/15: Support for Window is now in beta.

We’d love your feedback on this new feature! Are you seeing better playback performance - particularly with multiple tracks? Better scrubbing? Are you seeing any quality issues with playback? Let us know!

Thanks,

Fergus

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Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

As an update, our Windows beta products now also include hardware acceleration for the video formats listed in my first post. We'd love to get your feedback!

Regards,

Fergus

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Ahh, re-reading I see we needed to read the struck-out section of your post to see what you were talking about here ... ok ...

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

J

J-TIZZO

Known Participant

Is there any chance of adding support for VP9 compression videos and for MKV container videos?

Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

@J-TIZZO We are working on adding MKV support. We do not plan on supporting VP9.

Regards,

Fergus

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Thanks for the clarification, Fergus.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I'm with Warren.

We REALLY need a listing available in every build of Pr, with what formats it can manage. There's too many, and as your post shows, it's constantly changing.

So a top-menu item ... "Supported and Color Managed Formats This Build" would be a HUGE help. Someplace we could easily, quickly check.

NO WAY we users can mentally track which build does what.

I posted an Idea on the regular forum for this ...

Supported formats ...

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

T

theaveragedave

Known Participant

I'm having excellent performance with this beta on my Canon C70 and M1 Max with XF-AVC Long Gop. However on an existing project I noticed a color shift on my C70 footage with Lumetri applied. The footage was noticeably more magenta than in 24.1.0. HEVC footage from the Canon R7 looked normal on the same sequence.

Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

@theaveragedave Thanks for the information; that's very useful! Would you be able to share a sample project and related media that show this issue? We will test with our own C70 too but it would be useful to have your data. If you're able to do this, please send me a private message with information about where to download your files.

Regards,

Fergus

K

Kaboon2310759829rv

Participant

I have been using Premiere Pro for our weekly podcast show, which involves seven recording sessions per week utilizing Sony NXCams with AVC LongGOP in MXF format. Previously, we encountered numerous challenges during Multicam Editing, such as a runaway timeline, audio drops, black video, sync issues, stuttering playback, and freezing GUI. However, since the latest version update, we have not experienced any of these issues.

The stability improvements have been truly commendable, making our editing process significantly smoother and more efficient. I must commend the Adobe team for addressing these concerns, as it has positively impacted our workflow and overall experience.

In addition to stability, the enhanced performance with the AVC MXF hardware acceleration is eagerly awaited, and I am confident that it will further elevate our editing capabilities.

I did encounter a crash on one occasion while using NewBlue Titler and Dynamic Linking Audition for audio edits. While infrequent, I thought it was important to bring it to your attention for continued refinement and optimization.

Warren Heaton

Community Expert

I am thinking that it would be great to have something in the user interface that indicates hardware accelerated formats - probably on the Thumbnail in the Project and Bin tab and on the Clip Boundary in the Timeline with pop-up menu options to show/hide the indicator.