This article provides insight into Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) and Hardware Decoding/Encoding (Intel Media SDK) in Adobe Premiere Elements.
Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) renderer
Adobe premiere elements can take advantage of available GPUs on your system to distribute the processing load between the CPU and the GPU to get better performance. Most of the processing is done by CPU and GPU assists in processing certain tasks and features. For a list of GPU supported effects and transitions, recommended graphic cards and all other information about GPU accelerated rendering, please click here.
Hardware-accelerated Encoding/Decoding (Intel Media SDK)
Difference between Hardware-accelerated Decoding, Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Acceleration), and Hardware-accelerated Encoding
- Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) is a renderer used to process GPU-accelerated effects and enhances playback.
- Hardware-accelerated Encoding is used to accelerate the encoding performance while exporting the timeline in H.264/MPEG2 and MPEG4 Codecs.
- Hardware-accelerated Decoding is a process which is used to accelerate decoding H.264/AVC and HEVC media while playing back the timeline.