The french company Divide Frame
released a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas Pro which is to accelerate AVCHD/QuickTime H.264 editing considerably. The plug-in named "GPU Decoder" uses Nvidias CUDA and PureVideo HD technology to speed up MPEG-4/AVC H.264 decoding. Price is 95$ - a watermakring trialversion is available. Required is a Nvidia 83xx card, Windows XP/Vista/7 and Adobe Premiere Pro (>=CS3) and Sony Vegas Pro 9.