Video editors and content creators have been waiting for Adobe to release the ARM version of Adobe Premiere. Today, Adobe made good on that promise, releasing a version of Premiere that runs on the new Copilot PCs based on the Snapdragon Elite chip. It does come with a bit of a catch, though; the version released is not native to the Snapdragon CPU. Instead, it’s designed to run inside the Windows Emulation layer used on ARM-based machines.
For those who don’t know, the Windows Emulation layer was significantly improved with the release of the Copilot PCs. In layman’s terms, Snapdragon PCs don’t use the same instruction set as the X86 PCs we’re used to made by AMD and Intel, so the emulation layer interprets those applications to run on Snapdragon-based laptops. Adobe had planned to release Premiere for ARM in July, but nothing ever came of that. Photoshop and Illustrator are the only native apps available on Windows 11. Adobe hasn’t given a timeline for when other ARM versions of the app suite might be available. Adobe is expected to release After Effects in the same manner as Premier, under the Windows Emulation layer, later this year.
The Apple-based Adobe apps were ready shortly after Apple’s ARM-based M1 chip launched. Could the development team be facing challenges with the ARM version for Windows? We’ll have to see.
