New NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Plug-ins Boost Adobe CS4 Performance

By DE Editors

NVIDIA has announced the availability of GPU-accelerated plug-in solutions for Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) users, optimized to run on a range of NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions. NVIDIA is offering discounts of up to 50 percent on plug-ins from Elemental Technologies, Boris FX, Red Giant Software, and proDAD when purchased at NVIDIA.com.

Among the plug-ins being offered is the NVIDIA CUDA architecture-based Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows from Elemental Technologies. By leveraging the CUDA parallel computing architecture, this new plug-in offloads H.264 video encoding to the Quadro GPU, enabling Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 users to experience a performance increase of up to 11X when compared to CPU-only video encoders. In addition, NVIDIA and Elemental Technologies are bringing accelerated H.264 video encoding capabilities to Mac Pro users with the new Elemental Accelerator 1.2 for Mac OS X running on the Quadro FX 4800 for Mac.

“The ability to develop real-time motion graphics and effortlessly perform color correction are very important developments for Adobe CS4 users,” said Sean Safreed, product director of Red Giant Software. “The work we have done with NVIDIA on our GPU-accelerated plug-ins enables a creative professional to tap into the power of the Quadro GPU in their system, and freely experiment with a wide range of visual effects and color control, thereby enhancing the creativity of their final production.”

The full line of Quadro GPUs are optimized to enable GPU-acceleration across the family of Adobe CS4 applications including: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash, and Photoshop.

For more information, visit NVIDIA.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.