hello good people I'm Dmitry and for the last few days I have not been
editing and I have not been building anything cool I've just been sucked into
Adobe premiere's latest update with their whole hardware acceleration so I've been
testing multiple hardware so I want to show you guys how you can save a lot of
time using this hardware acceleration if you are on an Intel machine and are an
adobe premiere user sometimes i wonder how people imagine what editing for me
is like
damn amazing edit where in reality it's more like this huh what music should I
use two L's later oh I think I found a good track or maybe not all right so
this whole experimentation began with me not necessarily experiencing the
smoothest editing experience on my rising machine inside Adobe Premiere so
I swapped out to Intel popped in the coffee lake i5 8600K that is
fantastic for games but in fact Ryzen was slightly faster in exporting 4k
video and significantly faster exporting to 1080p video but then Adobe rolled out
a lovely update that allows for additional hardware acceleration for
Intel's 6th generation plus so your skylake cabling and calculate processors
that allows the full utilization of the Intel graphics that's built into the
processor for encoding and decoding for significantly faster export times and so
we wanted to dig deeper and really explore the full power potential of this
latest update of utilizing the IGP and your Intel CPU to really speed up render
times so let me guide you through the entire process right after this are you
ready ok watch this
so that is what the components must feel like inside the H 500 P managed by
Coolermaster check it out in the description below alright so this whole
hardware acceleration begins with Adobe's 12.1 update that enables
hardware acceleration to be actually built into Adobe Premiere Pro and you
can see it in encoder settings and allows you to actually select hardware
acceleration or just simply software acceleration it basically would utilize
an otherwise idle integrated graphics on your Intel chip 6 generation and higher
and actually use that graphics horsepower to accelerate encoding now I
want to clarify that in my most recent barrage of tweets praising Adobe for
this update because the rendering improvements are so significant I refer
to this acceleration as quick sing support where in fact we don't actually
know what's happening in the background for this hardware acceleration so Adobe
could be using quick sync function block to accelerate encoding and decoding
because quick sync is so efficient because it's designed to do that one
thing so well but they could also be using some form of OpenCL acceleration
for the Intel uHD or HD graphics so if they respond to us regarding this
clarification about hardware acceleration we'll make sure to let you
know in the comments below and so first we must enable the info graphics on your
Intel processor make sure that your Intel processor actually has Intel
graphics otherwise you will not be able to take advantage of this additional
hardware acceleration so you'll need to access the BIOS and enable this
integrates in side for some reason on Asus model boards it's listed as
multi-monitor support so just make sure that is enabled and boot back into the
system the next thing in task manager you still will not be able to see your
Intel graphics enabled there because you need to install the latest Intel drivers
so just navigate to your processors name and make sure you download the Intel
graphics for Windows 10 and restart the system and BAM now we can actually see
both GPUs and we can now go back into Adobe and enable hardware acceleration
and by default Adobe sets appropriate encoding settings based on the available
hardware so if you have an eye GPU available for Adobe to use based on
those steps of actually enabling it in the BIOS and downloading the right
drivers then you have hardware acceleration is enabled by default
otherwise it'll revert to software only and it's actually quite impressive while
rendering a video seeing CPU utilization your GPU utilization and the integrated
graphics from Intel also working together to output that video file much
faster all right so here's the first performance graph we are rendering in
one minute forty sequence out into 4k again so we have hardware acceleration
and blue and software acceleration in gray now keep in mind that software
acceleration uses both open CL or CUDA acceleration depending on the graphics
card so that gives you a bit of reference point however the performance
improvement with hardware acceleration while it's using the integrated graphics
is actually pretty substantial and so in percentages were spending about 16% less
time on the MacBook Pro about 20% on the coffee Lake system with both our RX 480
and the GTX 1080 about 28% on the skylake machine and we're literally cutting down
our render times in half when that gigabyte air of 15 X and so all those
integrals are utilized and really brings that notebook to like desktop
performance level as a video production monster and if you guys want to check
out that review I'll be right over here moving on to a larger 13 minute 4k
project so the time difference here again between hardware and software
acceleration is pretty significant about 30% time saved on my coffee like machine
36% on my skylake machine and again we're cutting down the render times in
half with that arrow 15 X notebook and what's interesting about these numbers
is just how close the Intel graphics brings all this Hardware together so you
know our notebook for example it's takes the longest on the software side one is
just using the CPU and the CUDA acceleration on the gtx 1070 but it
really shrinks down that render time when you enable net Intel graphics it's
pretty fantastic but what about a notebook that does not
have a discrete GPU and it only the CPU and it's integrated graphics
well I've tested both skylake coffee lake and the XPS 13 and the results are
a little bit surprising so check this out
software acceleration on all machines was faster in outputting our one minute
file not by much but in my observations in software encoding we are utilizing
more of the CPU and it's still using the IGP because the OpenCL is still enabled
in the Adobe Media encoder but I noticed that the CPU usage was higher and
potentially maybe that's why things are exporting faster when we're using
software only method whereas the hardware method did not use as much of
the CPU itself and obviously utilized the full IGP you that was available for
the encoder and you may be wondering why the coffee like machine is slightly
slower than our skylake machine so the skaldak processor is a fork or a thread
part versus only six core six thread part on the coffee like machine so the
additional threads I think help with encoding when you're using you know CPU
and the IGP only without a discrete GPU now many of
you may see these graphs and say sure you're rendering something so much
faster but what about the quality degradation obviously there must be some
sort of compromise right and so I used the YouTube 4k export preset at 40
megabits per second the output files both the sizes and the bitrate was
identical on both so there's no difference there however when I did
screenshots from the hardware accelerated output video versus software
accelerated output video and overlaid them in the exact same frame in
Photoshop and shows the opacity to difference there was no difference even
if you zoom in to like 500% that's where you start to potentially notice slightly
more blotchiness on the hardware acceleration versus like the smoother
stuff on the software accelerate file but the difference once it's uploaded to
YouTube will be negligible and you rather save the time on the export then
pixel peep something that you will not even be able to notice when it goes out
to the world to see and so this whole thing has been very exciting because I
was actually thinking of ditching Adobe Premiere altogether because the
rendering difference has not been improving for ages now but I feel like
with this added acceleration support using you know Intel graphics it really
does bring Adobe Premiere to a competitive level with rendering times
for you know Davinci resolve and also Final Cut Pro X not exactly on
their terms and they're like compatibility for hardware and
optimization but it is definitely getting better and I'm going to put this
charge for the conclusion you know Rison has been fantastic and it's a really
good value platform but with this whole rollout of hardware acceleration using
Intel graphics it really makes sense to switch to Intel for Adobe Premiere for
our needs because the rendering performance is so much faster without
losing quality and I really want an 8700K because we double the threads and so I
feel like performance will be even better of like one to one rendering
versus my sequence to the output render times that is what I want to see moving
forward all right so I'm gonna leave it here let me know what you think of the
results and if you are on an Intel platform with a compatible CPU with
infographics let me know what type of accelerated results you get with
hardware acceleration and you know I still love Rison but if you are
potentially thinking like a 2700X or an 8700k the question that's been asked
so many times for me in the last week or so you know potentially this could not
you in the direction if you are considering going for Premiere Pro for
video production so thanks so much for watching I'm Dimitri make sure to check
out this other relevant content and we'll see you in the next video this
video ran there so fast I'm excited whoo