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FelixUnderwood
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April 14, 2018
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New H.264 Hardware Acceleration during Encoding (not decoding)

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I understand that in order to take advantage of the new Hardware Encoding during Export (Encoding Settings/Performance/Hardware Accelerated), you need a processor that features Intel's Quick Sync Video. My Intel i7 6950X does not. Is there any other way to enable the hardware setting (mine is grayed out)? I have an nVIDIA Titan X Pascal video card, which of course enables Hardware decoding w/Mercury Transit, but is there a way to use my video card for Harware Encoding in AME or is there any other way to get Hardware Accelerated encoding w/o an Intel processor that supports it?

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    Correct answer RjL190365

    The Intel H.264 hardware accelerated encoder is not compatible at all with your system or any other HEDT ("High-End DeskTop") system. (To be more precise, you must have a 6th- or later generation  Intel i3, i5 or i7 CPU with integrated Intel HD or UHD Graphics 5xx or higher series, and that integrated graphics must be enabled, in order to use Adobe's implementation of the encoder. 5th generation and earlier Intel i-series CPUs with HD Graphics with 4-digit code numbers will not work with that feature as they are too old to be supported.)

    And you cannot enable hardware acceleration at all for encoding because your Titan X Pascal requires the NVENC encoder, which Premiere Pro does not natively support. As a result, you're stuck entirely with software-only encoding (at least for now) on your HEDT platform. Otherwise, you will have to "downgrade" your CPU platform to a mainstream (Socket LGA 1151 and a non-X chipset) platform or a mobile (laptop) platform just to use the Intel hardware H.264 encoder.

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    RjL190365Correct answer
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    April 14, 2018

    The Intel H.264 hardware accelerated encoder is not compatible at all with your system or any other HEDT ("High-End DeskTop") system. (To be more precise, you must have a 6th- or later generation  Intel i3, i5 or i7 CPU with integrated Intel HD or UHD Graphics 5xx or higher series, and that integrated graphics must be enabled, in order to use Adobe's implementation of the encoder. 5th generation and earlier Intel i-series CPUs with HD Graphics with 4-digit code numbers will not work with that feature as they are too old to be supported.)

    And you cannot enable hardware acceleration at all for encoding because your Titan X Pascal requires the NVENC encoder, which Premiere Pro does not natively support. As a result, you're stuck entirely with software-only encoding (at least for now) on your HEDT platform. Otherwise, you will have to "downgrade" your CPU platform to a mainstream (Socket LGA 1151 and a non-X chipset) platform or a mobile (laptop) platform just to use the Intel hardware H.264 encoder.

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    FelixUnderwoodAuthor
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    April 14, 2018

    Great answer! Thanks for that.  I'm surprised Adobe doesn't support/integrate NVENC into AME, being that nVIDIA is about the only video card player in town that Adobe recommends. Are there any 3rd party NVENC encoders out there that  play nicely w/Premiere Pro you would recommend or would you recommend just sitting tight for now to see what Adobe might bring to the table in the future?

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    RjL190365
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    April 14, 2018

    There are third-party NVENC plugins for Premiere Pro, but they are not guaranteed to work properly in all PCs. Thus, if you install such a plugin, it may or may not work in your system.

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