“Also included in today’s release is support for Apple’s ProRes RAW in both Premiere Pro and After Effects,” Nvidia says.
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If you’re hoping to hop onboard the GPU encoding bandwagon, Adobe recommends using a graphics card with at least 4GB of onboard memory for 1080p videos, 6GB of VRAM for 4K videos, or 8GB or more of VRAM for higher-resolution tasks. Previously, hardware encoding was limited to Intel CPUs that supported the Quick Sync feature, or limited support for some CUDA workloads on Nvidia GPUs. The estimated time to completion cuts in half.īoutique system builder Puget Systems benchmarked Premiere Pro’s new NVENC encoding support while it was in beta, however, and found “this feature resulted in between a 2-4x improvement in export times depending on the source codec with a minimal (if any) decrease in video quality.” Our video director exporting a video using Adobe’s new GPU accelerated encoding. Note the highlighted estimated time to completion. Our video director exporting a video using traditional CPU encoding. There could theoretically be an image quality hit if you’re accustomed to using two-pass VBR, though we’ve yet to test the new feature extensively. Adam reports that you can’t use GPU encoding with two-pass VBR (variable bitrate), only one-pass VBR or CBR (constant bitrate). Flipping the GPU encoding switch changes some of your available quality options, however.