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For any NLE professional whose head's been stuck in the sand for the past month, Avid's recently released Media Composer 6 ships with new GPU-based hardware acceleration features for the first time. Using NVIDIA CUDA-compatible GPUs, Media Composer 6 is able to greatly accelerate compute-intensive processes which were CPU-bound just a few months ago.
Cubix recently received an education on Avid Media Composer 6 from a UK-based customer. He was presented with the option of either completely replacing his current AVID workstation with a $10k dual Xeon configuration, or he could add a GPU-Xpander to his current workstation for $3k. His decision was a no-brainer!
Instead of swapping out PCIe adapters every time he changes projects in his current slot-limited PC, he attached a GPU-Xpander Desktop 4 and has all of his PCIe I/O capture cards and other related PCIe gear in the system simultaneously. This saves him time and money since he doesn't have to power down, swap out, and power-up again
Although its GPU acceleration features are limited at present, Media Composer 6 kind of reminds me of where DaVinci Resolve 7.0 was 18-24 months ago; nice single-GPU application which really hit its stride once multi-GPU configurations were enabled less than a year after 7.0 was released. Since multi-GPU configurations were enabled on Resolve a year ago, DaVinci has greatly enhanced both performance and features of Resolve to an extent which nobody 2 years ago thought possible without the use of $100k+ server farms.
Every major NLE vendor now includes GPU-accelerated features which benefit from using GPU-Xpander. Hop on the bandwagon and see how much money you can save by integrating a GPU-Xpander into your current hardware configuration instead of replacing entire workstations!