No more time-consuming exporting! Adobe has announced an update to its video editing suite (including Premiere Pro and Media Encoder) to enable hardware-accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) on Nvidia and AMD GPUs to significantly reduce the widely used formats, significantly reducing export times.

Encoding tasks are typically the domain of the PC CPU. However, task-specific encoding/decoding blocks can be used to move encoding/decoding tasks to the GPU.

The May 2020 release of Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder (version 14.2) will be able to use Nvidia and AMD encoding blocks during the export process (via The Verge).

According to a graph posted by The Verge, Nvidia's RTX 2060 is more than 2.5x faster than the Intel Core i9 9750H in 4K basic transcoding. It is worth noting that this benchmark was performed on a mobile Intel processor.

Nvidia's Video Codec SDK and hardware-based encoder, NVENC, are popular alternatives to software-based encoding in streaming and capture applications such as OBS and Streamlabs OBS. The same is true for AMD's Advanced Media Framework SDK (AMF) and hardware-based VCE encoders. [A complete list of Nvidia graphics cards that support NVENC and NVDEC can be found here.

Adobe already supports some hardware acceleration for certain effects and workloads, such as many effects within Adobe After Effects.

The latest Premiere Pro update also introduces ProRes RAW support, updated marker shortcuts, and a new and improved Adobe Sensei Auto Reframe tool.