These presets have been developed by professional photographers. Lightroom now utilises a new feature called Premium Presets. Adobe has also adapted its Illustrator and InDesign apps that now see 65 percent and 59 percent improvements, respectively, on the M1 chip over the Intel chip. The new Super Resolution feature is thrice as fast and back editing photos is four times as fast on the M1-powered Mac computers. A benchmarking test conducted by Pfeiffer Report suggests that the app is twice as fast on M1-powered Mac computers compared to its Intel counterpart. Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic now utilise the full potential of Apple's M1 SoC. The update for Adobe Lightroom was announced on Adobe Blog on June 8. Adobe Illustrator and InDesign get major performance boosts with the update. Alongside, Adobe has also updated the Lightroom app for other platforms. Adobe Lightroom gets updates for collaboration features, new Premium Presets, among other feature improvements. Adobe also claims that through third-party benchmark testing, the updated Creative Cloud apps are 80 percent faster on M1-based Mac computers compared to Intel-based Mac computers. What is interesting, though, is how well the M1 processor’s Neural Engine works with Adobe’s AI-driven Sensei technologies.Adobe has adapted its Creative Cloud apps such as Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign to work seamlessly on the Apple M1 SoC. Adobe points out that some processes may still be faster on Intel machines with powerful GPUs, and the M1 architecture limits the RAM to a maximum of 16GB, which is not a lot for real power users. So just how good is the new Apple M1 processor?Īdobe’s independent tests reflect our own benchmarking data for Apple’s new M1 machines, and the performance gains are typically substantial and sometimes spectacular. Playback performance can be a bugbear on lower-powered machines, and the M1 MacBook managed to play back XAVC S 100p and iPhone 4K 60p footage at their nominal speed, while the Intel MacBook could only manage 18fps and 48fps respectively.Scene Edit detection uses Adobe Sensei AI, and here the M1 processor’s Neural Engine delivered a huge 5x speed improvement over the Intel-equipped MacBook.Encoding XAVC S 4K 25p to ProRes 422 proved more than 2x faster, though Adobe does point out that the gains from other encoding combinations were more modest.

Importing XAVC S 4K 100p footage was almost three times faster with the M1-powered MacBook.With video production now as important for content creators as still photography, the performance gains for Premiere Pro are just as important, and Adobe reports an 77.57% overall performance gain from the new M1 processor. (Image credit: Adobe) (opens in new tab) Premiere Pro performance gains with the Apple M1 processor

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