Adobe releases Windows on Arm beta versions for 4 more apps

If you’re running the Arm version of Windows—most notably on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ laptops—then you’ll be pleased to know that four more apps from Adobe’s arsenal have now been optimized for the platform, reports The Verge.

The apps in question include Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder, for which you’ll now find beta versions of their Arm editions. Unfortunately, these beta versions still lack some of the features in their non-Arm counterparts, and expect some bugs as well.

For example, the current beta version of Premiere Pro’s Arm edition lacks support for third-party extensions, the ProRes raw video format, and hardware-accelerated playback and exporting of H.264 and HEVC in MP4. It’s the same story for After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder. The good news is, the big missing features will come in a later release.

That said, Arm support was added to Photoshop nearly five years ago, so it makes you wonder why Arm support was delayed for so long with these apps and why it’s taking so long to catch up.