Prelude
Prelude is a video ingest and logging tool from Adobe, designed to help editors, producers and post-production teams capture, organize and review raw footage during production and pre-editing. It supports proxy workflow creation, customizable metadata tagging, FCP XML export, and integration with Premiere Pro for seamless hand-off to the editing timeline. Prelude is typically used on-set or in post-production facilities to manage the early stages of video workflows before full editing begins.
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1 suggestionAdobe Prelude was discontinued in 2021. The company migrated its core ingest and logging features into Premiere Pro's native workflow, so there is no newer version of Prelude itself. If you are still using Prelude CC13, it is Intel-only and will stop working entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (late 2027). Adobe has not released a native Apple Silicon build of Prelude and will not—the product line has moved on. For video ingest and logging going forward, Adobe recommends using Premiere Pro directly, which ships natively on Apple Silicon in recent versions (2023.0 and later). Migrate your project metadata, proxies and media to Premiere Pro's native ingest panel, which provides comparable functionality with native M-series performance. If Prelude's specific legacy workflow is critical to your pipeline, contact Adobe support to discuss workarounds or consider archiving the Intel version while you transition to Premiere Pro.
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