Any good reason why Premiere doesn't work with NVENC?

[dmitryv35091675]

This just makes no sense to me. Why I bought professional software, but still have to use third-party stuff to do basic things. I moved from Vegas Pro because of bugs but was shocked that I have to encode via CPU only here until I used some custom fan-made plugin. Now my videos are rendered in 2 hours instead of 18. But still, I don't understand.

CUDA stuff is bugged and makes lots of crashes? What's the problem? Also, AMD chips are off the board as I understand.

[R Neil Haugen]

There's a number of people working with AMD ... for example, both Puget Systems and SafeHarbor Computing have AMD rigs they custom build for video post work. Though in general, most setups are still Intel/Nvidia.

Neil

[dmitryv35091675]

I mean AMD also have some encoding stuff like NVENC for NVIDIA and Adobe also doesn't support that. Makes no sense.

[R Neil Haugen]

Not an expert on this for sure. I've been around discussions about this type of thing at NAB and also online. What I can say is the engineers for Pr say that there are x number of resources in a computer, and for each app, there are decisions made how best to utilize which resource for what task.

If you up the use of one resource for Y process, it's less available for Z  process.

So ... you have to choose a balance between resource uses, that you think for most users as you expect them to layer tasks in your app ... will result in the best performance over the user base.

Some apps do some things with GPU, others leave that to CPU. Avid, Resolve, and Pr all have different uses they make of resources in processing.

Where it gets dicey is if you load more stuff into the GPU, then your users that are already running their GPUs hard because of the tools/effects they use ... will get a slower playback or encoding process. It's a trade-off.

I've been in discussions with AfterEffects gurus that don't want more effects in that app run through the GPU, as that would only slow down their work. For example. So it's not just as simple as 'throw more at the GPU and everyone gets better performance".

I'm hoping they just get better performance over-all.

Neil

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

dmitryv,

It's not a supported technology. Sorry. Make a feature request here: Hardware HEVC and H264 decoding on Nvidia NVENC – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,
Kevin