Overview
Up to 11X Faster H.264 Video Encoding
Elemental Accelerator is a high-speed, high-quality video processing solution designed to add power and performance to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 workflow with select NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics boards. Elemental Accelerator harnesses the power of the Quadro GPU and NVIDIA CUDA technology to perform high-speed video encoding and deliver dramatic time savings over conventional CPU-only encoding solutions.
Elemental Accelerator performs GPU-accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to H.264/AVC baseline, main, or high profile output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu-ray disc. By executing demanding processing tasks on the Quadro GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video transcoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment. Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows can deliver as much as a 11x performance improvement compared to the standard CPU encoder.
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Memory Size: 768MB
Memory Interface: 192-bit
Graphic Memory Bandwidth: 38.4GB/sec.
Graphics Bus: PCI Express x16
Details
GPU-accelerated features and specifications
- Import Formats
Import the most common video formats for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. Supported formats include: AVCHD, MOV, MPG, HDV, MTS, M2TS, and TS.
- Decode Formats
Support for GPU-based MPEG2 and H.264/AVC video decode speeds end-to-end video processing.
- Effects Rendering and Video Conversion
Accelerate common video effects and transitions as well as linear scaling and frame rate conversion.
- Output Video
Render and encode H.264/AVC video to high and main profiles for Adobe Flash and Blu-ray disc and to baseline profile for Adobe Flash and portable media players.
- Easy Installation
Elemental Accelerator installs quickly and easily as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
- Accelerated Video Workflows: MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, HDV, XDCAM
- Video Rendering/Encoding: H.264/AVC
Video Effects and Transition
- Motion
- Position
- Scale (uniform and independent)
- Cropping
- Opacity
- Fast Color Corrector
- Hue balance and angle
- Balance magnitude, gain and angle
- Saturation
- Contrast (input/output level settings)
- Brightness (input/output level settings)
- Cross Dissolve
- Dip to Black
- Dip to White
Video Conversion
- Linear up and down scaling
- Aspect ratio conversion
- Frame rate conversion
Audio Encoding
PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 Specifications
- 768MB GDDR3 frame buffer
- 192-bit memory interface
- 38.4GB/sec memory bandwidth
- DVI dual link and two DisplayPort
- PCI Express x16 Gen 2 bus interface (compatible with Gen 1)
- 59W maximum power consumption
- No auxiliary power required
- Active fansink thermal management
- ATX form factor, 4.376” (H) x 7.8” (L)
System Recommendations
Minimum System Requirements for Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows
- Desktop platforms: NVIDIA Quadro CX, Quadro FX 5800, FX 4800, FX 3800 or FX 1800
- Mobile platforms: NVIDIA Quadro 3700M or 2700M
- NVIDIA driver 182.65 or greater
- Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.1.52 or greater
- Adobe Media Encoder version 4.0.1.78 or greater
- Windows XP 32, Vista 32 or Vista 64
- Intel or AMD dual-core CPU running at least 1.6 GHz
- Access to the Internet for product activation