GPU assisted editing.

AMD Ships ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11-Compliant Graphics Cards

The future of NLEs is here!

At least, what should be the future of NLEs - GPU assisted video tasks using OpenCL.?While the new 5800 series of ATI cards is very impressive from a gaming standpoint, something most regular Premiere users will recognize as overkill, they are also OpenCL 1.0 compliant.?This means software programmers can take full advantage of the parrallel processing power of that card (and that power is massive!) to assist with whatever tasks they program it for.?This can not only mean things like faster H.264 exports, like that currently offered by nVidia's CUDA technology, but it can also mean render free HD editing with multiple streams and effects; faster encoding to several formats, not just H.264; and render free scaling, motion and opacity.

All we need is for Adobe to move past the limited* CUDA support and adopt the more open standard of OpenCL, which works on both nVidia and ATI enabled cards.

*and limiting, as many people prefer ATI

GPU assisted editing.

Impressive.

Maybe something that I'll need to consider for the new workstation. By the time I get around to shopping for hardware, the could well be implementation in PrPro - or maybe not.

Thanks,

Hunt

PS - though I have had zero issues with my nVidia cards, far too many have.

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