9to5Mac published a story that Adobe Premiere Pro is now supporting Apple's Afterburner Card on the Mac Pro.Adobe Premiere Pro beta gains Apple Afterburner Card support on Mac Pro After recently adding native support for ProRes RAW in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder, Adobe has added support for.
' Introducing Apple Afterburner, a Game-Changing Accelerator Card The new Mac Pro debuts Afterburner, featuring a programmable ASIC capable of decoding up to 6.3 billion pixels per second.'
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2020 lets you edit video faster than ever before. Dozens of brand-new features include a redesigned timeline, improved media management, and streamlined color grading. And it’s just the beginning: You’ll get access to new features the moment they’re released. Your entire creative world, together in one place. Only in Creative Cloud.
We also added Apple’s new $2,000 Afterburner card, which is a dedicated processor called an FPGA that accelerates decoding ProRes video files in certain apps. And I mostly work in Premiere. An Apple update is available: Adobe Premiere Pro beta gains Apple Afterburner Card support on Mac Pro 9to5Mac published a story that Adobe Premiere Pro is now supporting Apple's Afterburner Card on the Mac Pro.
The main advantages of Adobe Premiere CC 2020:
Working with multiple projects simultaneously
General projects with the lock function
Adaptive design – Time
Adaptive design – Position
Animated graphics templates available in Adobe Stock
Realistic editing of VR
Realistic sound processing for 360 / VR immersive
Transitions immersive
Subtitles and graphics for video with immersive
Rotation VR sphere
Improved process of “Basic Graphic Elements”
Support for new formats
Regional subtitle standards
Support Updates “group projects as Adobe”
Improved conditions beginning work for beginners
Optimized support for built-in camera in the shooting settings Lumetri working with templates After Effects motion graphics without installing the After Effects application
And much more …
What’s New:
Version 14.3:
Use Adobe Stock audio within Premiere Pro – you can now search, download, and license royalty-free audio soundtracks from Adobe Stock via the Essential Sound panel in Premiere Pro.
New file format support – Premiere Pro provides robust support for import of Canon EOS footage and RED Komodo footage. Premiere Pro also provides enhanced bitrate controls for JPEG 2000 MXF export.
Afterburner support – you can now use the Apple Afterburner card with Premiere Pro to decode ProRes 422 and ProRes 4444 media.
Apple offers its current Mac Pro for professional video editing also with the 2,500 Euro expensive Afterburner PCIe x16 accelerator card, which accelerates the work (more precisely the encoding, decoding and transcoding) with ProRes (RAW) - it supports the playback of up to six 8K ProRes RAW streams or 23 4K ProRes RAW streams simultaneously.
Apple Afterburner
ProRes PCIe x16 accelerator card
Afterburner Graphic Card
Until now, support has been limited to Apple's editing program FCPX, QuickTime Player X and a few other third party apps - now support for Adobe's Premiere Pro editing program has also been announced. It was to be guessed that this has been in the works for a long time, since the presentation of the Mac Pro on the WWC in connection with Afterburner also showed Adobe and Blackmagic logos. Adobe has now announced in a posting in the Premiere Pro Forum that newer betas (from 14.3.0) of Premiere Pro/After Effects and Media Encoder already include support for Apple's Afterburner accelerator card and can be tried out by users who used it. Currently, decoding using Afterburner is supported for ProRes 4444 and 422 videos - ProRes RAW is not yet supported. To do so, you need to enable rendering via Metal in the respective Adobe programs (which is the default).
Apple Mac Pro 2019
Afterburner Card
Unfortunately, there is no way to see if Afterburner is actually used in the respective Adobe App when working with ProRes 4444/422 at the moment - but the acceleration should be noticeable if Afterburner works.