![]() Then in June of 2020, Adobe added GPU encoding acceleration to Premiere Pro 14.2, which gave support for hardware acceleration of H.264 and HEVC encoding with both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards, regardless of your CPU. This capability was much more applicable to high-end workstations, which don’t have Intel’s consumer-level Quick Sync feature but have top-end, discrete GPUs. This is when I started using hardware acceleration for more than just testing purposes. The quality was also inferior to software encodes in the initial release, but that was fixed shortly thereafter. The next step was hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 and HEVC, which made editing with those codecs much more doable on less powerful systems, especially when it came to scrubbing through footage, which is usually rough with long GOP compression formats. ![]() This, from my perspective, was because of laptop chips. (High-end Xeon CPUs don’t support Quick Sync, including the newest W-3300 chips.) Adobe started with Intel’s hardware-based acceleration for H.264 and HEVC encoding in Version 13, which was limited to 4K at 8-bit on CPUs with Quick Sync video processing. Premiere Pro has had CUDA-based GPU acceleration for over a decade, since CS5, but it did not use Nvidia’s accelerated encode and decode hardware until recently. Else it defaults to software acceleration/cpu and then you are in for low frame rates unless you are using the latest CPU's.The High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), or H.265, is a processing-intensive codec for both encode and decode that leads to higher video quality at lower data rates. There have been both CPUs and GPUs available for years that have dedicated hardware within them to accelerate HEVC encoding and decoding. But this hardware acceleration requires specific support within software applications to use them. And unlike with software encoders, there are a finite number of supported encoding options that can be accelerated, each of which has to be explicitly supported. The newest updates to Premiere Pro have increased the number of hardware-accelerated options for HEVC workflows, greatly increasing performance with those types of files. I think it starts at the Quadro 4000 level to edit 10bit. I think NVidia has a table of which Graphics cards you need for 10 bit hardware accelerated editing. And then have a PROFESSIONAL support setup so IF things go wrong - you can get going in a short time without having been treated like cattle in an Apple Store by the "Almighty" geniuses who are anything BUT.īut H265 10 bit usually requires a lot of horsepower and dedicated hardware to decode at a decent speed. I DO WISH Apple would design some great computers with great quality hardware - as I love the design - and when they work they are nice to work on. That will vaccinate you from buying more Apple Computers. I just use my old MBP's to compile cross-platform apps.Īnd if you get bored or do not agree - just go and watch a few hours of Louis Rossmann Apple repair videos. ![]() My time is to valuable to use Apple Computers for a living. So about 1-4 weeks to get an Apple computer fixed plus all the travel time to and from the "Geniuses" plus the time you sit around waiting for them to turn up to your pre-arranged appointment time. If you accept then the device might be ready in 1-5 days. And 3-7 days later you get a repair estimate. Then you go there and hand in your device. ![]() That usually takes about a week before they have "time" for you. With Apple you "reserve" a time-slot with a Genius. On a good ThinkPad (In the MBP price-range) if something goes wrong - I call - and the service technician is ONSITE the next day - and tries to fix it there and then. One Genius "repair" was done so bad it then took out my LCD screen AND my "new" motherboard + a power supply after 30 minutes of turning it on. Unfortunately they did not know that I design hardware for a living - so in each case I got quoted $1000-$2000 repair costs - which ended up with Apple having to pay for it as I could prove it was known issues and manufacture mistakes. ![]() I have spent hours at "Genius" service to get both fixed - and being told so many "non-truths" from Genius staff that if I had recorded it - it would have gotten millions of youtube views. I have 2 "older" MBP's that I'm holding on to as they are from the time when Apple cared slightly more about quality. Just to expensive to maintain and repair when something fails (and it will). I do use iPhone/iPad's but I would never again buy any MacBook / Mac computer. To add fire to the thread - Apple computers are badly made - period! Give me a ThinkPad anytime. ![]()
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