Adobe Premiere Pro with Quicksync support tested

[12:52 Fri,1.June 2018 by Rudi Schmidts]

In our current 4K-Hardware Advisor series we only recently came across Quicksync. After many years, the major version of Adobe&s premiere has now also received support for Intel&s hardware acceleration. However, only for export and only with core chips of the sixth (Skylake), seventh (Kaby Lake) or eighth (Coffee Lake & Kaby Lake Refresh) generation. Under Windows 10 only the H.264 export is accelerated, under MacOS 10.13 additionally H.265 alias HEVC.

Marc Sauter from Golem took a closer look at the implementation. As is obligatory with other editing programs, the correct drivers must be set to the correct BIOS settings for use. For this purpose, the export specifications under Premiere must be correctly complied with. Which shows the biggest drawback: Two-pass encoding (VBR2) is not supported, nor is a constant bit rate (CBR).

The acceleration achieved compared to fast CPUs was almost negligible with FullHD and only relevant from 4K. In the best case, the speed advantage was a maximum of 25 percent. This once again confirms that Quicksync is especially interesting for laptop users.

In our opinion, however, the use of Quicksync as a fast decoder is much more relevant for a smooth timeline playback, but this is much more difficult to test. Moreover, Premiere does not seem to rely on Quicksync for playback.

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