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AnishBansal
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May 9, 2022
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Discuss : M1 Hardware Accelerated Decode for AVC Intra

  • May 9, 2022
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With the latest Adobe Premiere Pro Beta build we have enabled Hardware Accelerated Decode on Mac M1 for AVC Intra in .mxf container.

What does this mean for you? It means that decode times for your AVC Intra footage are significantly faster on Mac M1 systems. Following flavours of AVC Intra will get benefit from this:

  • Panasonic AVC Intra
  • Sony XAVC Intra
  • Canon XF-AVC Intra

 

Minimum OS version required for this feature to be enabled is macOS 10.15. However, for AVC Intra Class 200, minimum OS version required is 12.2.1.

 

Hardware-accelerated decoding is ON by default and is controlled by media preference that can be located via:

Navigate to Preferences > Media

Enable hardware accelerated decoding (requires restart) checkbox should be enabled for HW decoding.

Restart of Adobe Premiere Pro is required in case preference is changed.

 

Please see attached screenshot.

 

Feature is enabled in Adobe Premiere Pro Beta and Adobe Media Encoder Beta.

 

Please try out the feature and share your feedback.

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    Nick Lear
    Nick Lear
    Inspiring
    July 28, 2022

    Any plans to have MXF hardware support for Windows?

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    Beneditor
    Participating Frequently
    May 10, 2022

    Excellent to see you now getting into this kind of optimisation work on M1. Will be testing this today. Do you plan to accelerate XAVC wrapped as .mp4 as well? Asking for a client with Sony FX3 cameras. 

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      Community Manager
      mayjain7130546Community Manager
      Community Manager
      May 12, 2022

      Hi @Beneditor ,

       

      Thanks for asking this. XAVC in .mp4 container is already hardware accelerated on M1 systems. You can try and let us know how it goes. We will also wait for your update on MXF testing.

       

      Thanks,

      Mayjain

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      Beneditor
      Participating Frequently
      May 12, 2022

      Hi Mayjain 

      One thing Ive noticed with h264 XAVC is that playback drops off when you have a caption layer active. Playback is also hindered by Lumetri or other plugins so some extent but captions is the biggest effect on playback. It is almost as if the hardware decoding is not functioning when a caption is present. This is on M1 Ultra with 128Gb RAM and latest beta 22.5 (as of 12/5/22) 

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