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Alastair Brown · June 26th, 2008, 09:11 AM

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_c870.html

Seemingly this thing will render at way faster speeds than even a quad core. I got quoted that cobverting a BluRay H264 took 20mins as opposed to 5hrs.

Wondering if any of you tech heads had any idea if this held any promise for us Vegas users?

Jeff Harper · June 26th, 2008, 02:23 PM

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7772 is another link about connected products...very cool stuff...

Michael Wisniewski · June 26th, 2008, 04:20 PM

Nvidia's announcement probably won't mean much to Vegas users. The makers of Vegas have always pursued a strategy that relies on the ever increasing power of general CPUs.

Garrett Low · June 26th, 2008, 04:51 PM

There is another post somewhere regarding these new cards and using the GPU for processing. As I recall the answer was that using these GPU's for transcoding of specific formats would be faster than using the CPU but for rendering of video in the NLE environment, the CPU is needed. If I find the link I'll put it up.

Arne Pursell · June 28th, 2008, 04:33 PM

Is this what people are referring to ? A p-town start-up the RapiHD is due out in August for G80 and later nvidia gpu's, and only for Adobe Premiere Pro so far..the rest seem to be SDK's. Someone give me a heads up if they get more information, this is a much much cheaper rendering solution than the current top-of-the line solution (Quad-quad core Barcelona's or evil empire equivalent). No word yet on SLI...

http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/

http://www.badaboomit.com/blog/

Both CUDA based.

There was a youtube video out there showing the tech (badaboom transcoder and the plug-in for premiere pro), but I can't find the link. Sorry !!

June 26th, 2008, 09:11 AM	#1
Alastair Brown Major Player Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Glasgow/Scotland Posts: 626	Nvidia CUDA - What does this mean for us? http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_c870.html Seemingly this thing will render at way faster speeds than even a quad core. I got quoted that cobverting a BluRay H264 took 20mins as opposed to 5hrs. Wondering if any of you tech heads had any idea if this held any promise for us Vegas users?

June 26th, 2008, 04:20 PM	#3
Michael Wisniewski Wrangler Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Makati, Metro Manila Posts: 2,706 Images: 32	Nvidia's announcement probably won't mean much to Vegas users. The makers of Vegas have always pursued a strategy that relies on the ever increasing power of general CPUs. __________________ "Ultimately, the most extraordinary thing, in a frame, is a human being." - Martin Scorsese

June 28th, 2008, 04:33 PM	#5
Arne Pursell Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ithaca, NY (USA) Posts: 40	elemental tech. from Portland using GPU's to speed rendering by 7X.. Is this what people are referring to ? A p-town start-up the RapiHD is due out in August for G80 and later nvidia gpu's, and only for Adobe Premiere Pro so far..the rest seem to be SDK's. Someone give me a heads up if they get more information, this is a much much cheaper rendering solution than the current top-of-the line solution (Quad-quad core Barcelona's or evil empire equivalent). No word yet on SLI... http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/ http://www.badaboomit.com/blog/ Both CUDA based. There was a youtube video out there showing the tech (badaboom transcoder and the plug-in for premiere pro), but I can't find the link. Sorry !!

June 26th, 2008, 02:23 PM	#2
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7772 is another link about connected products...very cool stuff...

June 26th, 2008, 04:51 PM	#4
Garrett Low Trustee Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Novato, CA Posts: 1,774	There is another post somewhere regarding these new cards and using the GPU for processing. As I recall the answer was that using these GPU's for transcoding of specific formats would be faster than using the CPU but for rendering of video in the NLE environment, the CPU is needed. If I find the link I'll put it up.