
AMD has just the availability of a beta plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 announced to the H.264 encoding in addition to the CPU and the graphics card can use (which of course AMD / ATI has come). According to a press release reduced the duration of an export clips with 1440x1080i 29.97 FPS HQ, CBR
15 Mbps, 128 kbps audio from 372.5 to 47.3 seconds. So about 8 times faster. The computer on which this comparison is ran, it was not just poorly equipped: an AMD Phenom X4 II 955 3.2GHz processor with 8GB Ram, ATI Radeon HD4870 (1024MB) Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. So it looks as if GPU encoding is now on a broad front has arrived.