[Now Released] Improved support for NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture

[Fergus H]

In version v25.1 or earlier of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder, video formats that are hardware accelerated by previous generations of NVIDIA GPUs are already hardware accelerated by NVIDIA’s new Blackwell Architecture GPUs. No update to our applications is required.  

Now in beta is support for an exciting new feature, unique to NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs: hardware acceleration of 10-bit 4:2:2 media in both H.264 and HEVC codecs.  

These formats combine small file size and great quality, and now with hardware acceleration from Blackwell, great performance.  

Please note:  

1. Hardware acceleration is available for H.264 & HEVC 10-bit 4:2:2 media in the MP4 and MOV containers. Support for MXF media will be coming later this year.  
2. Full-range files are currently being decoded as limited range files. This is a bug that will be fixed in an upcoming beta.  

If you’re a Windows customer with a Blackwell Architecture GPU, we would love to get your feedback on 10-bit 4:2:2 support! 

Thanks,

Fergus

[GoldenSound]

This is great news! I'll give this a go tonight.

It seems it only is for mp4 container files though. Is there any plan for MOV support?

1. My camera and I imagine others will only record their highest quality options to MOV so currently we would need to re encode files prior to editing 

[Fergus H]

@GoldenSound Thanks for catching that! Support is available in both MP4 and MOV containers; we wouldn't want to forget all our Panasonic customers! I've updated the post above. Thanks!

[GoldenSound]

Ah that's excellent thank you!!
Super excited for this update. It's pretty much the main reason I got the new card, thanks for getting it implemented fast!

[Shebbe]

Sounds great.

Regarding the range issues, I'll just sneak in this old feature request I once posted that Premiere could highly benefit from. With the upcoming color management finally opening up and maturing a bit, bringing data range management to users for project media and exports is also an aspect that could recieve much needed love.

[FlyingFourFun]

Is there/will be there be support for multi streams of encoding/decoding to align with with hardware support from blackwell encoders also?  (aka decode 2 or 3 streams at the same time)

[mayjain]

Hi @FlyingFourFun,

Thanks for your question! Multi-stream decoding (playback) is already supported in Premiere Pro, but currently, only single-sequence encoding is supported. However, you can explore parallel encoding in Adobe Media Encoder. For more details, check out: Adobe Media Encoder Encoding Guide.

You can test these workflows on any Nvidia card—please let us know if you run into any issues.

Happy to discuss this further!

Thanks,
Mayjain

[GoldenSound]

Has the 2nd issue of full range files being decoded as limited range been fixed in the new 25.3 version?
I've unfortunately not really been able to properly try using the new beta with my GPU yet as all of my footage is full 10-bit 4:2:2 so I need the full range decoding

[Fergus H]

@GoldenSound not yet but likely late this week or early next week we'll have this issue addressed. 

Regards,

Fergus

[GoldenSound]

Hey Fergus, is there any news on this? 
I'm really hoping to try out the new encoder support but with it mostly being targeted at 10-bit files, and not currently decoding them full range (and all my footage is 4:2:2 10bit) I can't do so yet as the colours are incorrect

[Fergus H]

@GoldenSound Not yet. We encountered a few issues with this that are taking a longer to address than we'd expected. I will definitely post as soon as the issue is fixed. 

Regards,

Fergus

[mayjain]

Hi @GoldenSound ,

Apologies for the delay, and thank you for your patience.

We’ve enabled full range support in the latest beta build and addressed the related issues. Please update to the latest beta version (Premiere Pro 25.3.58 or newer) and let us know how things perform on your end.

Thanks,
Mayjain

[Scott.C.]

Would love to test this except I'd have to sacrafice a kidney just to get a 5090. 

[Fergus H]

@Scott.C. RTX 5080s require less kidneys. Good thing, otherwise the user of this computer would be in big trouble!

[Tommaso B]

Hi,

I've been testing the latest Premiere Pro Beta with the new NVIDIA hardware decoding (NVDEC) implementation on RTX 5000 series GPUs, and I wanted to share my feedback and suggest an improvement.

The new hardware decoding support for 10-bit 4:2:2 files works exceptionally well. It's fast, stable, and greatly enhances the editing experience.

However, sequence video previews currently have no GPU acceleration for encoding, and thus the CPU quickly becomes the primary bottleneck, regardless of the chosen preview file format.

Would it be possible to enable NVIDIA hardware encoding (NVENC) specifically for sequence video previews?
Allowing at least one NVENC encoder per preview stream would significantly boost performance and responsiveness, dramatically improving Premiere Pro's usability.

Initially, supporting H.264 would already be an excellent improvement, considering its universal compatibility and existing hardware optimization. Extending support later to H.265 (HEVC) would be even better, given its superior compression efficiency. Additionally, enabling at least 4K resolution and 10-bit color depth for GPU-accelerated previews would better align with professional workflows.

In summary, it would be ideal to see in future updates:

• GPU acceleration for sequence video preview encoding using NVENC.

• At least H.264 encoding initially, with possible extension to H.265.

• Support for 4K resolution and 10-bit color depth in preview files.
  
  

Thanks again for your great work. Looking forward to future enhancements!

Best regards,
Tommaso

[Fergus H]

Hi all, 

NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support is now available in v25.3 of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder and we locked this thread. If you have any questions or comments, please post them in the regular (i.e., non-beta) forum for the product you're using. 

Thanks for the feedback during the beta!

Regards,

Fergus