NVIDIA CUDA performance - Video effect rendering with Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 Ultra @ Elite Bastards

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Hi everyone,

 

We've been hearing a lot about GPGPU for the past couple of years, and in particular there has been plenty of talk about NVIDIA's CUDA programming language to leverage this sort of functionality on the company's GPUs. Until recently however we haven't seen a great deal of movement as far as applications which make use of CUDA is concerned, but this appears to be changing as we draw towards the tail-end of 2008. One of the first applications sporting CUDA support and aimed at the average user is PowerDirector 7, thanks to a new update to the software which Cyberlink furnished us with a few days ago - Join us as we take a look at what CUDA support brings to the table for this video editing software in terms of both features and performance.

 

 

NVIDIA CUDA performance - Video effect rendering with Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 Ultra

 

"Whenever we talk about GPGPU processing in terms of video, you'll probably think of one of two things - Playback or transcoding. While most GPUs now have everything they need to take almost the entire video playback load away from the CPU, even in the case of a 1080p High Definition video feed, we're still yet to see a really great, rock solid video transcoding application that uses the GPU to convert video from one format to another.

 

However, although unsurprisingly given the focus on creating rather than simply converting video content that PowerDirector 7 holds, the focus of CUDA functionality within this particular application doesn't sit directly with video transcoding. Instead, GPU acceleration is being used within the latest build of this software to accelerate the rendering of certain video effects that ship with the application.

 

It should probably be noted when I say "certain" effects that CUDA support is indeed limited to just a handful of video effects available to PowerDirector 7 at present, although to be fair these appear to be all of the most intensive effects to process, thus offering the largest potential time savings when it comes to actually producing your finished video and outputting it to a file."

 

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