OpenCL removed in Premiere Pro 15.4?

[Zandra98A7]

Why oh why?! This time they updated a new version 15.0 Premiere pro? I've been having difficulties fixing the glitching part and now I'd figured out then the settings (Render part) that I'm using was totally gone. Before they have 3 options and now It's 2 options, they removed the one that I'm using called "Mercury Playback Engine Acceleration GPU (OpenCL). How can I use the old version? Because even when I call the customer service they couldn't figure out as well until I did deeply research regarding of my problem. 😞 I have mixed emotions right now.

[Peru Bob · Accepted solution]

Apple removed support for OpenCL at the operating system level.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/270902-apple-defends-killing-opengl-opencl-as-developers-threa...

[RjL190365 · Accepted solution]

Adobe completely removed OpenCL support for macOS beginning with this new 15.4 release. You'll have to use Metal.

[dutchy_on_a_bike]

This may not help you but for our business we have moved to Davinci Studio. It is seriously a better program than Premiere. I have used Premiere for 7 years since FCP7 got axed. However the constant upgrade/bugs/laggy playback drove me mad. A friend said I should try Davinci and I have not regretted it. With everything being in one application, there is no need to roundtrip to Audition, Media Encoder or After Effects. Download the free version and try it out. Allow about a 4 week learniong curve to feel comfortable doing bigger projects. Cheers.

[jorgea39314182]

I feel you bro, I can't use my eGPU now since open CL is gone, it's just foolish