The REAL Reason We Switched to INTEL For Adobe Premiere Video Production!

Today we're diving deeper into Adobe's latest Premiere 12.1 update with Hardware Acceleration. What does it mean for export times? What type of hardware is supported? We go into detail about how some of the least expensive chips in Intel's lineup can achieve Skylake-X busting performance.

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[complete-mayhem-x]

Your Ad in this video is my favorite one. I really enjoyed watching you create it and hearing your creative process. I hope we get more insight like that in the future!

[Willbatross_]

I'm still not entirely sure why you switch to an i5, I thought you wouldve switched to an i7 8700K

[sirnh]

Hi there. I'm a member of the Premiere Pro development team and I can verify that Quick Sync is used for the codec hardware acceleration. We will use OpenCL and CUDA for filters, such as effects.

[GearSeekers]

Okay well. Here's the thing.
This is just encoding. Not actually editing.
Try exporting with with 2 discrete GPU's and the 2nd GPU literally cuts your export times in half. The iGPU is only a fractional improvement over what multiple discrete GPUs will do with CUDA or OpenCL enabled. I've done a fair amount of testing on this in the last little while also including the latest Premiere update.
I'd be interested in seeing you do a Ryzen system and add a 2nd GPU then export in 4K.

[alawid]

i really hate when i see Adobe and other companies making updates for their programs to support latest Intel chipset while leaving AMD's Ryzen chipset behind why not support both and make it easier for consumers to choose either Intel or AMD without compromise :/

[camdaman]

As a video producer at Microsoft, your expectations vs reality of video editing is so beyond accurate. Well done my friend. Well done.

[IN]

In b4 people blame AMD for what should've been Adobe incompetence

[gizmoknow-how]

I have an I5 8400 in my gaming and Video editing rig. I mostly upload in 1080p 30 fps, but it can even handle 4k 30 fps with no fps dropping on the timeline on the highest quality. I would definitely recommend i5 8400 for video editing and gaming because of the igpu acceleration that you don't get in the Ryzen 5 counterparts.

[MatthewMoniz]

I've been waiting for this! Nicely explained and awesome job breaking it down!

[FiscalRangersFlorida]

People who have enabled hardware acceleration are then getting a problem in Facebook and Chrome videos that won't run - they provide the sound but the screen is just GREEN. Search on it. I have an i7 8700K and enabled the hardware acceleration to get better processing for HDhomerun and my Plex server. Just today, I had to turn it off in both Chrome and in Windows to see videos again. Very confusing.

[nottheengineer]

I kinda feel like Adobe should get their priorities straight. Instead of making their software usable on ryzen machines, they rather try their best to make Intel CPUs beat them. Graphics acceleration should work just as well with DGPUs as it does with IGPUs.

[Omono]

I don't really understand why having an IGPU helps so much with rendering if you already have dedicated graphics. If the extra horsepower helps then why not just use more of the graphics card? Whenever I render a video my CPU is usually maxed while my GPU is sitting at 10-15%. I don't understand how using the IGPU halves the rendering time in some cases while the main GPU goes unused.

[TorIvanBoine]

woo. thanks for the tip. Didn't know this. got my Intel HD 530 enabled on 6700k.

[MindaugasAnusauskas]

I can agree that render times are much faster, but when using iGPU another problem appears.
As Premiere Pro uses "GPU 0" for its work, having iGPU enabled means that we lose exGPU power when working on project.
In my experience I use i7 8700k with 1060 6GB. When I eneable iGPU - Scrubbing through timeline is a disaster, but exports are faster. Disabling the iGPU allows me to work without a lag, but export times are 2x longer which is insane :D Have you noticed that?

[Dans-hobbies]

If you want to see a real jump in performance, give resolve a try it blows Premiere out of the water.

[bobhumplick]

keep in mind that the igpu can does both opencl compute and video encoding\decoding when adobe is using it and there is no dgpu. so when there is no dgpu the igpu has to switch back and forth bewteen opencl and quicksync encoding\decoding so thats why it was slower with no dgpu

[sirpawelm]

Whole Adobe rendering engine is weak. I'm using 16 core Xeon, 128GB RAM system which is slower than 6 core 8700K with 32GB (before iGPU patch). Xeons SP and E5 don't have iGPU. Usage of CUDA cores is another story doesn't matter if you have GTX 470 1, 25GB or GTX 1080Ti (11GB) render times are the same. Using Adobe because there is lot of plugins and I now how to use it.

[mattkroening]

If you had a rising platform system before this update rolled out and wanted to take advantage of it, wouldn't it make more sense to switch to a more powerful GPU or even add another one rather than switching platforms?

[streetguru]

What's weird is that the existing GPUs can't render faster than the much weaker intel iGPU.

[adam]

Did you try it with footage that's a lot more taxing on the encoder? Such as fast paced gameplay footage that has a lot of fast moving details on the screen. I found the quality difference to be pretty significant between the hardware and software renderers with footage like that, on otherwise identical presets.