
If you have a USB-A card reader, you can try using Apple’s $19/£19 USB-C to USB Adapter, or get a USB-C dock. If not, you need an adapter to access the SD card, like th e SanDisk Extreme PRO SD UHS-II USB-C Card Reader ($21 on Amazon or £21 on Amazon UK). If you use a DLSR or other type of stand-alone camera, it might have a way to transfer your files wirelessly. Apple has a support document that details the differences between the two adapters. The older version (model number A1621) supports HDMI 1.4. When shopping, check the model number (at an Apple store, you likely will get the new model). Be warned: Apple released a new version of this adapter (model number A2119) in August 2019 that supports HDMI 2.0. For an 8K display, you need an HDMI 2.1 cable with support for 48Gbps bandwidth, such as the Belkin Ultra HD HDMI 2.1 Cable ( $20/ £51 on Amazon)įor other Macs, Apple offers the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, a $69/£75 device that also provides a USB-A port and a USB-C port that’s for charging only. The M2 Pro/Max 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro has an HDMI 2.1 port and can run a 4K display at 240Hz, or up to an 8K display at 60Hz. Keep in mind that the port supports HDMI 2.0, so the maximum resolution and refresh rate it can run is 4k at 60Hz.

You can use a regular HDMI cable like the Amazon Basic HDMI cable ( $17/ £12 on Amazon) and plug it in. It did slow down with big graphics, though.If you have the 14- or 16-inch M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro or Mac Studio, they have a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port. Scrubbing through the timeline was great - I didn’t notice it drop a frame until 3.5 hours in of editing, which is very impressive.

On the M1 Max with 32 GPU cores, there was no lag between hitting the spacebar and playing, and Premiere ran noticeably smoother than my iMac or the M1 Pro laptops. Overall, the editing experience was very similar to my regular work machine, a 27-inch iMac from 2019 with an eight-core Intel Core i9, 64GB of RAM, and a Radeon Pro 575x graphics card the M1 Pro machines were actually choppier during 2x timeline playback. It was about one second, as if the computer was thinking before it played. There was also a short but noticeable lag from hitting the spacebar to the timeline actually playing. It was minor, but after 20 seconds a frame or two would drop.

But to no surprise, when I added graphics and adjustment layers with color, Premiere started dropping frames. Premiere ran smoothly with 4K footage - on both the 14-inch and 16-inch M1 Pro machines, I could play back the timeline at full resolution at 2x speed.
