Accelerating Compressor with NVIDIA GTX 285 or GT 120?

Question

Is there any way to accelerate Compressor using OpenCL with NVIDIA GTX 285 or GT 120? Plans to do this?

Answer 1

RedTruck wrote:
the standard? really…?
Yes. Every consumer camcorder that we sell at my camera shop records to AVCHD. Every Blu Ray player sold at WalMart, Best Buy, Target, etc. etc. etc. etc. uses AVCHD. It's the standard. Period.
Apple needs to get with the times! Sorry, but it's the truth. I'm not denigrating Apple, but they are living in a false reality if they think that AVCHD/Blu Ray is not the standard now, or that it's just going to go away because they refuse to acknowledge it or incorporate it into their products.
The assumption for many years has been that if you had a video camera, you should buy a Mac and it will be able to edit your videos right out of the box and burn them to a disc for playback on your computer. But it's simply not the case anymore.
I have customers come to my store and purchase AVCHD camcorders, and I got really tired of having to explain to people who came back with patches of hair missing where they pulled it out, that, "Sorry the Mac does not support the current HD standard."
"Huh? What?"
"That's right, it does not support AVCHD playback nor does it support Blu Ray."
"Really? Why?"
"I don't know."
"OK, well, what am I supposed to do? I just want to copy HD files to my Mac from off my camcorder and watch them."
"Sorry, not possible. Well, you could try VLC... but it will be choppy and horrific, unless you can somehow decipher its arcane preferences and get it to play those files back smooth, but I've been doing this for 20 years and I have no clue how to make VLC work for smooth AVCHD playback on a newer model iMac."
"OK.. well, how do I get them burned to disc?"
"Well, you could import them into iMovie, which requires transcoding the video into a much, much larger format, that takes a lot of time --"
"-- but wait, I bought a flash memory camcorder because I wanted to avoid the long camera to computer transfer times that plagued my life with a tape-based camcorder. But you're telling me now I have to wait hours and hours to capture my 120gb hard drive full of AVCHD video to my Mac in HD?"
"Yes, that's correct. Oh, and if you want to burn it to AVCHD/Blu Ray, you'll have to buy Toast and an external Blu Ray burner. That'll run you about.. $400. Oh, and when you do this, it will have to re-encode the video back into AVCHD, which will take *at least as long* as when you captured it in iMovie in the first place. And that 120GB of video is going to require... a LOT more than 120GB to store on your computer."
"$400?! I thought Mac came with the latest technology and supported the latest standards! More than 120GB? What the heck, why?"
"I'm sorry, but Apple transcodes it out of its native format, into some intermediary codec that eats up exponentially more space."
"Why the heck do they do that?"
"I don't know. Adobe Premiere Elements is the only consumer editing package that supports AVCHD natively, yet it only runs on PC. You could buy Premiere Pro CS4 but .. don't ask the price of that. Look, I don't know what to tell you. Buy Windows, install it, buy Premiere Elements, install that, and then buy Roxio Creator 2010 Pro, to burn your Blu Rays, and buy an external Blu Ray burner."
"Or just buy a PC that ships with Blu Ray?"
"**** no. Just wait.. until some undetermined future time.. when Apple finally decides to get with the times... <<sigh>>"
Anyway look. Currently Mac doesn't support the latest standards. I frequently have customers come to my camera shop, which is in the same mall as an Apple store, and I've had this conversation over, and over, and over again.
Anyone who disagrees that AVCHD is the standard needs to consider the fact that they are totally wrong.
Message was edited by: DaddieMac