Elemental Accelerator 2.2

DESCRIPTION
Elemental™ Accelerator is a high-speed, high-quality video processing solution designed to add power and performance to the Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 workflow. Coupled with NVIDIA Quadro FX video cards for creative professionals, Elemental Accelerator harnesses the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) 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 output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu-ray disc. Elemental Accelerator also supports high-speed MPEG-2 encoding for DVD or digital broadcast. By executing demanding processing tasks on the 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.

GPU-Accelerated Video Processing

Perform video decoding, processing and encoding on the GPU to deliver dramatically better performance than conventional CPU-only processing.

Lowest Total Solution Cost

Run on low-cost, off-the-shelf hardware, eliminating the need for specialized, expensive video processing hardware that is prone to obsolescence.

Superior Video Quality

Create H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 files with exceptional video quality for a variety of target applications.

Optimized System Performance

Increase productivity and the performance of your entire computer by shifting video processing to one or more GPUs, freeing the CPU for other computing tasks. With Elemental Accelerator, your entire system runs faster and more efficiently.

Seamless Workflow Integration

Add power and performance to your video processing without modifying your workflow. Elemental Accelerator is installed as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, allowing access to video presets and other controls from within the application interface.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Import Formats
  • Import 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-accelerated H.264/AVC and MPEG-2 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 for Blu-ray disc, Adobe Flash and portable media players or render and encode MPEG-2 video for DVD and digital broadcast.
• Easy Installation
  • Elemental Accelerator installs quickly and easily as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
• Multi-GPU Support
  • Divide the workload among multiple GPUs in a single system for a dramatic increase in encoding speed.
• Accelerated Video Workflows:
  • MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, HDV, XDCAM
• Video Rendering/Encoding: H.264/AVC
  • High and main profile for Adobe Flash and Blu-ray
  • Baseline profile for Adobe Flash and portable devices
• MPEG-2
  • Main profile at high or main level for broadcast
  • Main profile at main level for DVD
• Video Effects and Transitions:
  • 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
  • AAC
  • A/52 (AC3)
  • PCM

REQUIREMENTS

• Desktop platforms: NVIDIA Quadro CX, Quadro FX 5800, FX 4800, FX 3800, FX 3700 or FX 1800
• Mobile platforms: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M, 2800M, 1800M, 3700M or 2700M
• NVIDIA driver 182.65 is the minimum required driver for single GPU functionality
• NVIDIA driver 191.00 is the minimum required driver for multi-GPU functionality
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.1.52 or greater
• Adobe Media Encoder version 4.0.1.78 or greater
• Windows XP 32, Vista 32, Vista 64 or Windows 7
• Intel or AMD dual-core CPU running at least 1.6 GHz
• Access to the Internet for product activation