Enable Intel Quick Sync Video / QSV for quick H.264 output?

[LeungDa]

I can't seem to find this anywhere, in any search, so is there any way to turn on this hardware support for relevant Intel CPUs so that I can get quick'n'dirty outputs out of CS6, rather than wait an eternity for software-only, perfect output that aren't mission-critical?

Not all notebooks have dedicated graphics, so it would be nice to use such equipment to output youtube-friendly stuff on the move that doesn't have to be pixel-perfect, won't take forever and a day, doesn't gobble down the battery, and makes use of built in hardware codec on relevant chips.

Surely this is possible, as I've seen methods on CC, but as anyone in this forum knows, the point is to make use of already paid-for software.

Thanks in advance.

[John T Smith]

CS6 is from 2012... long before that feature was available in Intel

If you want new hardware support, you are going to have to subscribe to the latest program

[LeungDa]

While I appreciate that QSV was relatively new, it was already available on Sandy Bridge as of early 2011, which was before CS6 was released.

That being said, if Adobe simply never made any provision whatsoever for it, well, then you're right. Just seems like it can't be that big of a change.

[John T Smith]

>seems like it can't be that big of a change

I don't work for Adobe, so this is all based on my personal observation of software development

The initial issue of Premiere Pro CS6 is dated March 2012 (based on looking at the DLL files in my install folder)

Having been a programmer (different language, not the C and/or assembly language used in PPro) and also having been a Beta tester for programs (not allowed to say which ones) I know that the source code for a "release candidate" is locked in place weeks to months ahead of a program's release, to allow for testing and bug fixes... which would have been sometime in 2011 for CS6

Due to that timing, new hardware is not always going to be added to source code that has been in development for several months

So I am not at all surprised that the code to use that new Intel capability was not added to CS6

[LeungDa]

Agreed that it's no surprise it was not added, but what a shame. Even if developers had access to pre-release hardware/code, it's just me whining at this point.

Thanks.

[John T Smith]

If you don't want a subscription, see if the current Premiere Elements will do what you want

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Also ask in the Premiere Elements Forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements