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Apple Silicon under Rosetta

Running Remotion on Apple Silicon (M1 chip) under Rosetta can be up to 2x slower.

The recommended way to run Remotion on Apple Silicon is using Node 16 with the native arm64 architecture.

If you encounter the following warning while using @remotion/renderer:

Apple Silicon detected but running under Rosetta (not arm64 architecture). This will cause performance issues.
Recommended actions:
 - Upgrade to Node 16.0.0 or later
 - Run Node using `arch -arm64` architecture

You are either using Node 14 (which uses Rosetta on Apple M1 chips), or you are running a node version installed with arch -x86_64.

Solution​

  1. Upgrade to Node 16 or later
  2. Install Node and run it natively

For example, installing node natively using nvm:

arch -arm64 zsh
nvm install 16

You can check the architecture of your shell by typing in a terminal arch.
You can check the Node architecture by running in a terminal node -p process.arch.
If both of these print out arm64 you are good to go.