HEVC format and Premiere Pro Support

Question

Information we've gathered about HEVC and how it is supported in Premiere Pro:

With 12.1.2, and later, Hardware Decode was enabled for 8 bit HEVC files for Premiere Pro running on macOS.
With Premiere Pro 13.1 HW decoding for HEVC was enable for 8bit & 10 Bit for Windows.
With 13.1.2 Hardware decoding for HEVC 10 bit for Mac is Enable
On Mac users will get better performance on a Mac Book Pro or an iMac in comparison of iMac Pro.
- The iMac Pro (and some Windows users) can get better performance with i7 in comparison with Xeon processors.
- Xeon processors are not equipped with the Intel QuickSync feature.
HEVC 10 bit file are also available with HDR metadata so if user want to use Proxy workflow then ProRes is better choice if you want to preserve HDR information.
For HEVC hardware decoding, the minimum driver for Intel CPU/GPUs is version 6287.
HEVC files can be difficult to edit with for some systems. Create proxies and/or transcode this footage for the best editing experience.

multimedia-communications · Answer

Diving into the arcane discussions here of HEVC (H.265) support in Adobe Premiere Pro, I find a lot of misinformation, missing information and conflicting explanations. Is my summary correct? Software works; hardware is faster, but only with certain processors.

Software import and export of HEVC (H.265) 8-bit,10-bit, 444 & 422 files requires:

Premiere Pro 13.1.2 and later
macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and later, because they have the codec built in
Windows 10 in combination with a codec installed by Adobe

Hardware decoding for 8-bit and 10-bit HEVC files requires a minimum of :

for Windows, at least 7th-generation Intel core processors, because they have the H.265 codec embedded
Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro, because they are the only Macs with Apple's T2 chip, which uses the decoder on those 7th-generation Intel processors
(Of course, a GPU helps.)

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