I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...

Content creators, start your engines. Today, Adobe officially rolled out hardware encoding support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder, letting you lean on ...

So I was mucking around in Catalyst Control Center and came across something I had not noticed before, AMD Video Converter. I read the little blurb on it in CCC and it peaked my interest. I did some ...

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If I leave GPU acceleration off on my system, and leave the preview processing burden on my CPU, it takes it a couple seconds for Vegas to figure out what sort of preview quality it will be able to ...

Microsoft has been granted a patent for GPU acceleration of video encoding, in a move that could have significant ramifications for NVIDIA, ATI and others. The patent, "Accelerated video encoding ...

or re-encoding video files for mobile playback, or a whole bunch of other home server tasks that the hardware acceleration ...

Adobe released updates to a number of its audio and video applications last week, including Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, After Effects, and Audition. While these updates bring a healthy number of ...

InfoComm attendees can get a first look at Telestream Wirecast 7, which was announced yesterday and will be available later this month. The marquee upgrades include GPU-accelerated encoding and a ...

This is the first part of an investigation into game streaming, a topic that we've been requested on before – particularly after we review CPUs – but that has purposely been left out because it's ...