Adobe Support Community. For all my rendering needs, whether its Premiere or Media Encoder, should I use Mercury GPU acceleration (CUDA) or Mercury software only. I don't know if I'm supposed to have more options but those are the only two I have. Which is better? May 24, 2018 Adobe Media Encoder 2018 Hardware Accelerated Performance joelj72839238 May 4, 2018 1:53 PM With the newest update to AME I saw the new 'performance' tab with 'Hardware Accelerated' and 'Software Only'.
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All Intel CPUs with iGPUs since 2011 have a feature called Quick Sync, which allows H.264 (and now H.265) encoding in hardware, instead of in software, which is much slower.
Final Cut Pro X, Compressor, and HandBrake (Windows only) have supported this for a while. For whatever reason, it's not enabled by default in Adobe Premiere or Media Encoder.
To enable it, open Premiere and/or Media Encoder, press CTRL+F12 (Command + fn + F12 on Mac) to open the debugging console. Choose 'Debug Database View' from the drop-down menu: https://i.imgur.com/7Dt59Yr.png
Find or search for 'HWEncodeEnable' and enable it: https://i.imgur.com/bmpCr9G.png
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Close and restart Premiere/Media Encoder. H.264/H.265 (1-pass only) will now encode using Quick Sync much faster. This person found that it was 2.5x faster, but obviously this will vary based on your CPU and GPU:
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