Hardware Encoding unavailable on Premiere Pro CC 14.2

[KapeL]

Hi,

Sorry to post a seperate querry on this. But Im not being able to access Hardware Encoding on VBR 2 Pass. Below are my System Specs

Custom Build

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight Core - 3GHz

GPU - RTX 2060Super 8gb

RAM - 16gb

Is this something with my system or does hardware encoding not support 2-Pass VBR?

[ah_photo · Accepted solution]

Hardware encoding (or at least NVENC/AMD GPU encoding) does not support 2-pass VBR. I couldn't tell you the reason why, but I'm sure there is a reason! haha

[R Neil Haugen]

No app that I am aware of can do hardware encoding with 2-pass encoding. RJL can give the details, but that's the short answer.

Neil

[KapeL]

Thanks for the info Neil. A few questions - 

1. What is RJL?

2. Why cant it do a 2 pass?

3. Isn't a VBR 2 pass basically a first pass of rendering and a second pass of compiling in the final container? If so, then whats the processing overhead on that like?

4. Can I upgrade my hardware to enable this?

Thanks a lot!

Kartik

[Ann Bens]

1. an knowledgeable user.

2. not supported

4. no

[R Neil Haugen]

RJL can give more of the tech details, that user has amazing knowledge in this sort of tech question. As there are apparently no applications that can do Hardware Encoding in 2-pass exporting, I would assume there is a technical limitation preventing that option. Which would be outside the ability of the development engineers to change.

I don't know many editors who use 2-pass rendering that often. I never do. What specific benefit are you getting other than a slower encode?

Neil