Premiere Pro June 2025 Update Adds NVIDIA Blackwell 4:2:2 Video GPU Acceleration Support

The June 2025 Update of Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry standard video editing application, added support for GPU-accelerated 4:2:2 color format video encoding and decoding on NVIDIA “Blackwell” GPUs. It implements Video Codec SDK 13.0, which NVIDIA released in February. This adds 4:2:2 color format support for H.264 and HEVC. The 4:2:2 color format provides twice the amount of color detail as 4:2:0, but with a nominal increase in stream bitrate or file-size. Adobe says that the added color detail of 4:2:2 is ideal for “precise color grading, cleaner chroma keying, and crisper text rendering.”