Premiere Pro 14.2 is here! Today marks the release of Premiere Pro 14.2. Summary of the new features ProRes RAW support Graphics Improvements Auto Reframe Improvements Hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding Keyboard shortcuts to add specific marker colors Complete documentation Complete list of the new features List of Fixed Issues Release Notes System Requirements Premiere Pro Team Blog: Performance and Stability: Our Highest Priority Premiere Pro Team Blog: Maximize Your Creativity, Wherever You Are Working Let's now discuss the new features, including new ProRes RAW support and GPU speed-enhanced exporting!

The media reports were all nVidia, nVidia, nVidia. Sounds like there was a PR push to emphasize that, at the expense of accuracy. (And us Mac users, who live more and more in AMD-land.)
The official release info is extremely terse: "With new support for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs on Windows, hardware encoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) is now available across all platforms." So this feature is not available on Macs? Or it already was?? Since which version?
The blog says: "we now offer hardware encoding [..] across the full range of macOS and Windows systems.
The help page still only talks about Intel Quick Sync for hardware encoding.

Specifically for me, will hardware acceleartion not work because my Mac is pre-2016?
(Mac Pro 2010, AMD RX580 GPU, OS X 10.13.6)

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Going off of the newly updated system requirements for Premiere, specifically those for hardware acceleration, it seems like the language you referenced from the blog post of "all platforms" is just there to clarify that if you have a requirement-meeting machine, regardless of if it is PC or Mac or has a NVIDIA or AMD GPU, you now have some option for Hardware Encoding whereas before this was not always the case.

In your case though yes, pre-2016 Macs do not meet the requirement necessary for Mac hardware acceleration encoding.

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Hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding

Mac OS 10.13 (or later) on Mac hardware from 2016 or later
Windows 10 with 6th Generation (or later) Intel® Core™ processors and Intel Graphics enabled
Windows 10 with a supported NVIDIA or AMD card

Hardware-accelerated HEVC encoding

Mac OS 10.13 (or later) on Mac hardware from 2016 or later
Windows 10 with 7th Generation (or later) Intel® Core™ processors and Intel Graphics enabled
Windows 10 with a supported NVIDIA or AMD card

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I gotta say, 14.2 might be one of the more stacked updates in Pr 2020. I've been hearing good things about quality holding up even when using NVENC or AMD encoding, when typically in the past Intel's QuickSync has not held up as well. I'm excited to run some tests myself, and it could be a huge bonus for any long videos. I can see this being a huge bonus to game streamers who have a killer GPU in their rig anyway and typically deal with long videos.

Personally, I'm just loving the small quality of life stuff. Effects filtering is a nice nod to the AE feature that I will greatly be appreciating, and when I get back to working in office (which is Mac) I'm excited not to have to switch my audio output in both macOS AND Premiere every single time I want to switch between headphones and speakers. I also couldn't resist, I had to change the default marker color because yes, that default yellow-green is ugly as all hell.

At first glance, this is looking be like a really nice update from the Premiere team. Kudos!

Kevin-Monahan

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Community Manager

Appreciate the message. Thank you!

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

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Vadim5FA7

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Hello, Kevin! What about the quality of the final video when rendering GPU? Has it become the same as when using the processor?

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