Is anyone using the Matrox Max hardware to speed up export (I believe it only works for h.264). I export mainly to MPEG2 for DVD and h.264 for Blu-Ray and archiving but I'd like to know if it lives up to the 5 X Faster claim!

Pete

Is premiere not using "cuda" from nvidia cards to speed up the export? Not that it is any help to you but just as reference, if I export a 1 minute sequence containing a file with no effects or colorcorrections from a nex-ea50 (50 frames/sec - 28mbs avchd 1920x1080) to a 25mbs h.264 file it takes my pc 17 seconds. My nle (edius) uses the onboard gpu from the motherboard to accelerate and I always thought premiere did the same but with the videocards?

Yes Noa I have a GeForce GTX 580 with 1.5GB memory and in Premiere I have GPU Acceleration enabled but I still get these rendering times.