Yes that’s right – goodbye rendering and hasta la vista transcoding.

Transitions, split screens, scaling of clips, SFX and green screen keying – all in real time and no need to render!Īs well as that, stable native editing of AVCHD on a Mac for the first time, along with DSLR H.264 footage which doesn’t need transcoding – simply drag the footage from the memory card, edit and export. The performance boost also means rendering becomes a thing of the past. Your CPU is also freed up and the laptop should run cooler. For example you can have RED R3D, Canon DSLR, ProRes 4-4-4 and native AVCHD clips all overlapping each other on the same timeline simultaneously, playing back in real time and Premiere CS5 barely breaks into a sweat. So CUDA unlocks a HUGE performance boost for editing video. CPUs tend to be bad at this because they’re more flexible and lack the brute force punch of a graphics accelerator chip. The GPU, then, is perfectly suited to video decoding and encoding – huge throughput of instructions one after the other, again and again.

GPU (3D graphics accelerator chips) are designed for huge throughput of menial chores whilst a CPU is more ‘general purpose’. Tired of rendering the timeline and transcoding footage off a memory card in Final Cut Pro?ĬUDA is a technology from NVidia which allows a programmable GPU to act like a CPU (graphics processing unit) and now Adobe Premiere CS5 supports it.

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