It's that time of year when we dust off our pile of good intentions and decide how this year will be radically different and dramatically more productive! Well, according to one video editor in Virginia, those don't have to be hyperbolic statements if you follow five easy steps to boost your system. With some essential upgrades to your hardware (and software), you can actually see some of the drama everyone is talking about with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, such as video encoding that takes two hours instead of ten and ensures you can actually meet the rush deadline that just came up.

Won Novalis' article, "Essential Ugrades to Boost Your System," for the After Effects user site ae.tutsplus.com presents an incredibly useful upgrade guide to start the year off right. Won breaks it down into five steps complete with supporting graphics and videos, including:

   1. Get a Bigger Desk (Memory)

   2. Get Lighting That's Easy on the Eyes (Monitor)

   3. Hire a Video Specialist With Her Own Office (Video Card)

   4. Get More Storage Space (Hard drives)

   5. Get a Presentation Room to Review Your Work (I/O Card)

In step three, Won highlights Quadro FX graphics cards from NVIDIA and their diverse uses from high resolution effects to accelerated playback of Flash and H.264 video. We were excited to hear his description of the added benefits of NVIDIA's Quadro FX cards carrying Elemental Accelerator, which Won said, "boasts the ability to utilize the Quadro to dramatically boost your After Effects or Premiere Pro render times." Read the whole article to learn more.

Won told us more about his personal experience using Elemental Accelerator during his daily work as a post-production editor at Adandon Films. Straight from the author's keyboard:

"I don't like slow renders and I don't like spending money on hardware that never gets fully utilized, yet when it comes to production, it is unfortunate that our video cards often sit untapped of their true potential by a majority of the software we use daily.  It is a major deficiency.  In the short time I've gotten to use Elemental Accelerator I've been extremely impressed with what the software can do to leverage the Nvidia Quadro Card and Adobe's CS4 Production Suite along with it, especially if you are trying to get every last ounce of performance out of your workstation. It is great to see software that takes great strides to remedy the deficiency by leveraging your video card and increasing the value of your hardware investment. I look forward to seeing a lot more from Elemental Technologies and a lot less render time."

If you have yet to try Elemental Accelerator with After Effects as Won suggests, check out our application note and start cranking out content!

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