Fenner Rockliffe is a British Columbia local who grew up a few hours north of Vancouver in the town of Whistler. After completing his secondary school education at Whistler Secondary School, he attended Think Tank Training Centre in North Vancouver to further his education in film and study VFX, animation, and game design. Years later
Davinci Resolve Studio supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all “flavors” of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Premiere Pro supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all “flavors” of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in Premiere Pro.
AMD has launched their new Radeon 7000 series of GPUs, including the 7900 XTX. NVIDIA has long had a lead for many content creation workflows, however. Is the new 7900 XTX fast enough to make AMD a viable alternative to NVIDIA?
In the Premiere Pro 23.1 update, Adobe added GPU debayering for ARRIRAW which can significantly improve performance for live playback and exporting.
Topaz AI is known for how exceptionally well they can iomprove images and videos, but they can be very hardware intensive. Exactly what CPU and GPU will give you the best performance?
Astro Project is a content company that tells stories utilizing cutting-edge technology, and high-level creative talent and then “gamifies” it. Allowing users to explore, interact and experience content in a new way. Founded by Jesse Wellens the creator of the popular YouTube channel PrankvsPrank, and James DeFina, Futurist Director, Filmmaker, and 3D artist. Snoop Dogg
Jonathan Winbush is a motion graphics artist based out of Southern California. With 15 years of experience working in movies and television, he’s been spreading his knowledge online through his various platform. Notable works include Iron Man 1, Lego Batman 2, Transformers, NFL on FOX, Power Rangers, Fantastic Four, Deadliest Catch, and My Little Pony.
Do modern high-end processors really need up to eight memory channels? How is their performance affected if the number of channels is artificially limited?
Puget Systems is proud to call Excel Engineering a customer. But the relationship is more than that. Excel Engineering is a valued partner. That partnership began in the early days of the pandemic, and at first seemed to arise from what appeared at first to be a simple need. “We need a better plan, better performance, better solutions.”
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