Adobe has started the rollout of an update which enables the very popular video editing program Adobe Premiere Pro to run natively on the M1 processor based on Apple Silicon. Without emulation by Apple's x86-64 binary translation Rosetta 2, video editing should be up to 80 percent faster.
Up to 430 Percent more performance in special cases
As the website AppleInsider, which specializes in Apple and Mac, first reported, the increased performance in special cases such as AI and ML-supported tasks using Adobe Sensei, the intelligence level for the Adobe Experience Platform computing in the cloud, are much higher.
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Adobe Premiere Pro runs not only natively but also quickly on the M1 processor (Image: AppleInsider)
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Adobe Premiere Pro not only runs natively but also quickly on the M1 processor 
Apple Silicon in Adobe Premiere According to this, the M1 processor in Adobe Premiere Pro 15.4 should also be able to beat a graphics card like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (test) under Windows aside from these special machine learning tasks , which would be quite remarkable.
Media Encoder without emulation for the first time
The Adobe Media Encoder and the Adobe Character Creator are now also running native and without emulation on the ARM-based SoC and SiP series Apple Silicon. The two tools Adobe Premiere Rush and Audition already received M1 support at the beginning of 2021.
Photoshop and Lightroom as well as Illustrator and InDesign can also run natively on the M1 processor.
Adobe relies on Apple Silicon
The current System-on-a-Chip, which was presented at the end of 2020, as well as the coming generations, such as a possible Apple Silicon “M2” with up to 32 + 8 + 128 cores, can meanwhile almost all applications from the Creative Cloud without Execute emulation layer and framework.
In the course of the year, the public beta test of the compositing and animation software Adobe After Effects for Apple Silicon is to start, which is already carried out internally and by selected testers is extensively tested.
Speech to text free of charge with subscription
Also in July -Update is the new function “Speech to Text” for Premiere Pro. The feature should allow the content creator to create transcriptions and subtitles even more easily. The time required for the transcription of the video material and the setting of the subtitles should be reduced by an average of 75 percent through “Speech to Text”.
Text to Speech is free for all users who have either an Adobe Premiere Pro subscription or an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps subscription.