Adobe's support for Macs - when?

[paulwieczorek]

We're just about to buy a new laptop for editing purposes while in the field. Our whole studio runs on macs so it'd be hard to turn to Windows for one machine only. The thing is, as Adobe states, it supports hardware acceleration for Windows now and that's why their laptops outperform Macbooks, even in the same spec.

The 2016 MacBook Pro we tested took 17 minutes and 19 seconds to export 4K video footage with Adobe Premiere Pro—more than 3 times as long as the Dell XPS 15. We asked Adobe Premiere Pro project manager Patrick Palmer about the discrepancy, and he explained that Adobe has recently started using hardware acceleration on Windows for H.264 output. According to Palmer, the difference we saw in our tests is a result of the software, not the operating system, and the company is working on a similar feature for the Mac platform. “Over time, those differences will get smaller again… We’re not leaving Macs behind; we just got to it on Windows first.”

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My main question is - when will that happen? Anyone have any clue?

We like Premiere and AE, 'been working with them forever and don't really want to go to FCP. Although we've noticed horrible rendering times, as I wrote in other forum posts.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

My main question is - when will that happen? Anyone have any clue?

Only Adobe knows. Adobe does not announce when a feature is going to be released.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Our whole studio runs on macs

Perhaps reconsider that.

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The upshot is, Windows performs 3x better at 1/2 the cost.

[paulwieczorek]

Jim, thanks for advice but we wont take it. We run the whole business on Windows for years (where I particularly was building editing machines) and there’s a reason we switched to mac.

[yenaphe]

The hardware acceleration is available on both Mac and PC.

In premiere you can even choose "Metal" instead of OpenCL if you wish, which is a Mac only option.

I've heard that CUDA acceleration on Nvidia card is still a bit faster than OpenCL and Metal, but as long as you have a recent GPU with a lot of dedicated ram on it, it shouldn't be a concern

Hope this helps,

Seb

[paulwieczorek]

Seb (yenaphe), as Adobe Premiere project manager states above, there's no hardware (encoding) acceleration yet.

[Ann Bens]

OP means encoding.