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Elemental Accelerator 2.2.1 Now Available

Submitted by Lisa on December 17, 2009 - 12:55

Elemental is pleased to announce the release of Elemental Accelerator 2.2.1 for Windows, an important update to its GPU-accelerated video processing plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4. Release 2.2.1 contains bug fixes and updates as well as performance improvements that every Elemental Accelerator user will find essential.

Announcing Multi-GPU Support with Elemental Accelerator 2.2

Submitted by Lisa on October 23, 2009 - 12:06

Elemental is pleased to announce the release of Elemental Accelerator 2.2 for Windows, an important update to its GPU-accelerated video processing plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4. With the release of 2.2, Elemental Accelerator provides support for video encoding using multiple NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs. Multi-GPU functionality efficiently divides the encoding workload among all supported GPUs in a system, radically increasing overall export speed and performance. A multi-GPU implementation is well-suited to platforms with multiple PCI-E slots available to accommodate more than one NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card, such as Z Series workstations from HP and ThinkStation workstations from Lenovo.
Supported multi-GPU configurations are:

•    2 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
•    2 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
•    2 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Although performance improvements will vary depending on GPU(s), video source and export settings, Elemental Accelerator provides a dramatic speed increase over the standard CPU-only encoder when leveraging multiple GPUs. In the following test case, encoding AVCHD 1080p source video to H.264 720p output can be performed nearly six times faster with Elemental Accelerator than with the standard encoder available with Adobe Premiere Pro.

multi-GPU benchmarks

NVIDIA highlights Elemental Accelerator performance, benefits

Submitted by Lisa on September 29, 2009 - 13:28

The first edition of NVIDIA's Adobe Community Newsletter is all about Elemental Accelerator! The newsletter describes the most up-to-date features and benefits of Elemental Accelerator, including recently released support for MPEG-2 encoding, and provides performance benchmarks, bundled pricing, an ROI case study and more. Click here to view the newsletter online and explore the information and resources NVIDIA has put together for video professionals!

Sneak Peek at Doubling Performance

Submitted by Jesse on October 31, 2008 - 10:20

Now that we have some products out the door, we have been focusing on making the core technology even faster than ever using off-the-shelf NVIDIA GPUs. One of the biggest boosts in speed will come from taking advantage of multiple GPUs in the system. Here is a sneak peek of what we are doing to leverage a multi-GPU system. Multi-Movie Parallel Transcode The most straightforward way to take advantage of multiple GPUs in the system is to send separate transcode jobs to each GPU. This means one GPU could be transcoding one movie while another one can transcode a second one each at their already very fast speeds. We have been prototyping this using Badaboom already by launching 2 Badabooms each using a different GPU in the system transcoding different movies. Doing this essentially doubles the already fast speed achieved with Badaboom.