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Elemental Accelerator for NVIDIA Quadro
| Up to 11X Faster H.264 Video Encoding Elemental Accelerator™ is a high-speed, high-quality video processing solution designed to add power and performance to the Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 workflow with select NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics boards. Elemental Accelerator harnesses the power of the Quadro GPU and NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology to perform high-speed video encoding and deliver dramatic time savings over conventional CPU-only encoding solutions. |
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| Elemental Accelerator performs GPU-accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to H.264/AVC baseline, main, or high profile output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu-ray disc. By executing demanding processing tasks on the Quadro GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video transcoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment. | |
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| Desktop Solutions Quadro FX 5800 Quadro FX 4800 Quadro FX 4800 for Mac Quadro FX 3800 Quadro FX 1800 |
Mobile Solutions Quadro FX 3700M Quadro FX 2700M |
Here is an example of a project with 11X faster encoding speed
As you can see from the chart below the CUDA-enabled Elemental Accelerator™ plug-in coupled with the Quadro FX 3800 is up to 11X faster than the standard media encoder.
Project and Settings
We created an AVCHD 1920x1080 @ 23.976 fps Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 project running 28 seconds in length. Using a 2.5 GHz Quad Core CPU system, we compared the performance of the standard H.264 media encoder included with Premiere Pro CS4 with the Elemental Accelerator video encoding plug-in. Using the Quadro FX 3800, we export this project as a 1280x720 @23.976 H.264 file. This file is ready to be converted to flash format for web upload.
Performance will vary based upon which GPU and CPU are used. The chart below highlights results for the same test applied to additional GPU/CPU combinations.
Standard Encoder Setting In the standard media encoder these settings can be found in the pre-sets using |
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| Format: | H.264 Blu-ray |
| Preset: | HDTV 720p@23.976 High Quality |
Elemental Accelerator For the Elemental Accelerator™ Plug-in these settings are used as presets |
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| Format: | Elemental H.264 |
| Preset: | HDTV 720p 23.976 |
These settings are identical. Both use VBR 1 pass, target 25,000 Kbps, High Profile, and level 4.1.
i Compatible with NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800, 4800, 3800, 1800, 3700M, and 2700M GPUs
