Apple Silicon ARM Macs and Thunderbolt 3 / USB4 eGPU  

I don't use Resolve. It's a great app but I need integration with Photoshop and After Effects so Premiere is my choice. Premiere's caching is more efficient on the CPU than Resolve so less stress and waiting to pre-render in the background.

If people want to edit 8K smoothly just change the preview settings down to 1/2 or 1/4. Premiere or Resolve will render a small proxy in the cache but the quality is still completely good. It's easy.

Copy. Premiere doesn't seem to utilize the GPU as much. You should try Resolve, you might be surprised.

1/4 & 1/2 playback are definitely my friend for years. But its nice when you are stacking clips/adding effects to have that overhead. Plus, a nice real time preview fullscreen is really nice to feel the emotion of the edit without having to render and wait. 

Thank you! I'll report back and let you know what I find. 

Posted by: @craftsman

I don't use Resolve. It's a great app but I need integration with Photoshop and After Effects so Premiere is my choice. Premiere's caching is more efficient on the CPU than Resolve so less stress and waiting to pre-render in the background.

If people want to edit 8K smoothly just change the preview settings down to 1/2 or 1/4. Premiere or Resolve will render a small proxy in the cache but the quality is still completely good. It's easy.

Adobe is evil.

Switch to Affinity / Pixelmator / Davinci Resolve / Final Cut.

@ikir throw away your PC and Mac too. Go back to paint brushes and film reels if you want to avoid software companies who need to earn money.

Really Adobe is lazy, slow implementing features, slow supporting hardware but ask a lot of money. Affinity Photo is much more modern, fast and innovative, the same for Pixelmator. Those devs deserve support and money. Adobe not.

Posted by: @ikir

Really Adobe is lazy, slow implementing features, slow supporting hardware but ask a lot of money. Affinity Photo is much more modern, fast and innovative, the same for Pixelmator. Those devs deserve support and money. Adobe not.

I bought Affinity Photo and I'm not impressed. The selection tools are where Adobe was 15 years ago. Layers, masks and clipping layers are not as intuitive and when I open complex Photoshop files in Affinity Photo the images are completely wrong, the layers aren't interpreted properly and the clipped layers are not clipped or in the correct layer order. I have seen people on other forums with the same problems.

I'm also struggling to export complex layers from Affinity Photo that can be read in Photoshop. Nothing works.

Obviously, the Affinity Photo exported files can't be integrated with Premiere or After Effects because of the problems above.

So there is no chance for me to use this app professionally. It would destroy my business, slow my work down and my clients would run away forever.

The Affinity app is excellent for someone on a budget or working independently who doesn't need to share layered files with clients or internationally distributed teams.

For everyone else, there is no alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It's the most efficient, with the most advanced selection tools that save so much time, and the most compatible with compositing apps. The cost is negligible for an advanced professional who has basic knowledge of accounting.

The Apple Silicon version of Photoshop is looking really good now. The subject select tool and object select tool is faster and more accurate than on Intel.