Hardware Accelerated Encoding Coming to Premiere and After Effects
By Adam Noyes
Adobe has recently released a host of updates to their main stay softwares including Premiere Pro and After Effects. Check out some highlights from this article from premiumbeat.com to learn more about the upcoming hardware accelerated encoding for these softwares.
GPU hardware acceleration within Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, and After Effects could be right around the corner for PCs.
For a long time now, Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, and After Effects have lacked utilization of discrete graphics cards when it comes to exporting media. This leaves it up to your computer’s processor to provide a lot of the encoding power. However, if their latest beta builds are any indication, these applications will have GPU hardware acceleration soon.
That’s right. Premiere Pro Beta 14.3 and After Effects 17.1.1 include something that content creators have wanted for years: GPU hardware acceleration.
Improvements to the ProRes RAW Import on Adobe’s Community Forum.
This new feature allows your discrete graphics card to lend a hand during the rendering process, making your exports faster. Graphics processors are very important during the editing process. They allow better playback and help render specific effects, but they’ve long been absent in the final export process. AMD and NVIDIA cards are both supported in this update, so whether you’re on Team Red or Team Green, you’ll be all set. Here’s how The Verge summed up the announcement:
“Adobe is releasing a new update to Premiere Pro this week that includes hardware acceleration for Nvidia and AMD GPUs. The 14.2 update includes GPU-accelerated encoding using Nvidia’s hardware encoder for the company’s Quadro and GeForce graphics cards, with the promise that video editors will be able to export high-resolution videos up to 5 times faster than by just using the CPU. The changes also apply to Adobe’s Media Encoder, After Effects, and Audition apps.”