[Greg Estes]

Right – others have posted as well, but just to confirm: Sony Vegas takes advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture to accelerate encoding only at this time, so an AVC encode will go faster but you won’t see a dramatic acceleration of any effects. Other editing applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro do take advantage of CUDA to accelerate effects; while still other applications such as Avid Media Composer take a different technical approach and use OpenGL to accelerate effects on Quadro.

Other examples of media applications that take advantage of CUDA are Assimilate Scratch, GenArts Sapphire, Davinci Resolve, Mari from The Foundry – many others. How much acceleration you will see, and what aspects of the workflow are accelerated will vary by how each software vendor chooses to write their software, so it’s not as straightforward as n number of CUDA cores = x amount of acceleration.

GE