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What H.264 and H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in Premiere Pro?

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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.

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Intel Xeon W-3500 Content Creation Review

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Intel has launched their new Xeon W-3500 fmaily of processors, a refresh of their prior W-3400 family. How do they compare to AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-series of processors?

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AMD Ryzen 9000 Content Creation Review

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Introduction Following some launch delays, AMD has now released their entire AMD Ryzen 9000 Series of processors. These CPUs are based on AMD’s new Zen 5 CPU architecture, which promises increased IPC (Instructions Per Clock) and improved efficiency—in addition to better memory support. These CPUs are compatible with existing AM5 Motherboards (e.g., X670E), which support