Support AV1 Video Encoding and Decoding

I'm sorry to see that most of us are being pushed into this mess of replies and notes, although it is nice to see some of us are getting some new information from this. But, (two lines under BUT) do we really need all these explanations and statements about the AV1 is being the perfect codec for a large group of individuals? It just should be there in AP! This took more than it needs to see the support of AV1 coming to AP!

Whether it was helpful to you or not, it just should be there! I don't say why do we need DNxHR codec because I'm sure there are people using it! We need ours as well!

hope this will be resolved soon, as my YouTube gaming videos are can't be more better without AV1, so I get less compression from youtube tools.

Just as an FYI, I tried AV1 with the latest beta 25.6.0 Build 102. It does not work...

My AV1 format:

I agree that AV1 support needs to be added. I just discovered that AV1 was not supported last week. I had many screen recording that were encoded in AV1. It is typical for those with Nvidia GPU's to record both desktop and gaming videos using Nvidia Shadowplay due to hardware offloading. AV1 was used to save space due to the number of sessions recorded.

AV1 is only going to become more common over time. This can be indicated by looking at hardware such as GPU's:

• RTX 4000 series support AV1 encode and decode
• RTX 5000 series support AV1 encode and decode
• Intel Arc A series support AV1 encode and decode
• Intel Arc B series support AV1 encode and decode
• AMD Radeon 7000 series support AV1 encode and decode
• A number of older cards not listed support AV1 decode

Here we are two years later for the original post still discussing this. It should already be implemeneted. Even your competitor, DaVinci Resolve, supports GPU accelerated AV1 encode and decode...

Hello! I am late to the party by about 2 months.

I fully want to support AV1 encoding and decoding. Primarily for working with PC video game video editing.
The benefits of AV1 being easier on my system and higher visual quality then the old H.264 format are substancial on top of requiring a lot less storage. As many before me have specified multiple of times.

This would honestly allow me to finally use my RTX 50 series graphics card strong AV1 support to record and then edit using Adobe premier pro would be awesome.

Dear Fergus,

I work (in various capacities) for a broadcast television studio and have ingest and export scenarios for you:

I have colleagues that want to integrate footage in projects and sources that are coming from outside content where the delivery method was AV1 (from streamers, YouTubers, etc.) First, I have to try and use an external piece of software to transcode the media to a format recognized by Premiere Pro. I don't want to generate huge files, but I want to keep as much quality as I can, as these are already heavily compressed. This is not a case where we can always ask the provider to re-render in a different format. Think of it in terms of early days of smartphone usage and people wanting to inegrate that new-fangled AVC format.

That is the primary ingest reason. We deal with quite a few formats, and, from a time, quality, and disk space perspective, it's great not having to transcode.

The second reason is export for social media, YouTube specifically. All of our programs deliver to YouTube (as well as several other platforms). When delivering to YT, as they transcode to AV1 for the HD+ streams, delivering in anything but AV1 increases compression concatenation anomalies. So, it would be nice to deliver natively in that format.

To be clear, we can (and do) transcode in Handbrake when needed, but considering our team is paying for Adobe, it'd be nice if it could handle codecs that are commonly used in our line of work. Having ME able to do less than a piece of freeware doesn't feel great.

Hi Fergus,

AV1 is critically important to those of us in the YouTube space in particular. As an editor at a smaller channel, I can't afford to archive originals of all our videos, but as YouTube has moved to AV1 for 4K content, we find ourselves stuck when we need to pull clips from previously published content at its original resolution. Our only option is to download at 1080p or lower and integrate those clips, or spend more than we can afford on archiving our content in its original format.

Any YouTuber under a million subscribers that's making 4K content (most of the gaming space) is likely facing this same issue.

For the past year I've had the need for av1 support almost daily. I work in a professional production house and there is an actual need for AV1 support. Currently we encode the AV1 to other codes (somethimes prores, sometimes h264/5 or anything which are supported in Adobe) to even work with them. But this process is time consuming and you lose quite a bit of quality. The codec is ready, community is ready. Time for Adobe to be ready. 

Yes, we need this! Thank you.

Hi Fergus--appreciate your attention to this ongoing concern. Wanted to include some more info about where this codec is emerging and how it's beeing presented to end users. It indeed seems that game recording is perhaps the most prominent use at the present. In addition to OBS, AV1 is being rolled out with Medal, which is the most popular all-in-one third party in-game recording solution. Here's how Medal describes AV1 in their FAQ, in relation to H.264 and H.265:

AV1 is the most advanced and efficient video codec out of the three. It offers even better compression efficiency while maintaining the video quality compared to H.265. This results in even greater data reduction without noticeable quality loss. However, AV1 needs even more processing power than H.265, which makes it only compatible with newer generation hardware.

The most serious gamers (e.g. the ones most likely to have high-end hardware, play at higher resolutions, record a high volume of in-game content, want to preserve media without significant compression, and then want to edit that media with a NLE) are going to be the folks most drawn to this codec. I don't record for "content" necessarily but can easily rack up several hundred GBs of recorded gameplay just casually playing with friends at 3440x1440 resolution. So maintaining quality with reduced file sizes is certainly attractive. I've recently tried recording in AV1 via Medal and like others I was a bit disappointed to see that it wasn't supported in PP 2025. It's by no means a dealbreaker and I'm happy to revert to H265, but I would not be surprsised to see AV1 useage continue to proliferate as more people, especially the more traditioanlly casual users, begin to find themselves recording/ingesting/encoding longer form media for content creation as it continues to become more accessible. Looking forward to updates and thanks for looking into this!