The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Speeds Up the 4:2:2 Colour Sampling in Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder
Additionally, the recently released GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 laptops speed up AI and video editing processes.
Workflows for video editing are becoming increasingly colourful.
Adobe has revealed significant enhancements to Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro (beta), including support for 4:2:2 video colour editing on PCs.
Because it significantly reduces file size while preserving almost as much colour information as 4:4:4, the 4:2:2 colour standard is revolutionary for professional video editors. This maximises efficiency and quality while improving colour grading and chroma keying by isolating a particular range of hues utilising colour information.
The recently introduced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 notebooks, based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, accelerate 4:2:2 and offer impressive AI-powered video editing features.
Adobe and other industry partners are attending the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 5–9. The professionals will network, learn, and see the latest trends and developments.
Shed Some Color on 4:2:2
The quantity of colour information captured by consumer cameras with 4:2:0 colour compression is limited. Professional video editors frequently use cameras that capture 4:2:2 colour depth with exact colour accuracy to ensure superior colour fidelity, even though 4:2:0 is suitable for video viewing on browsers.
With just a 1.3x increase in raw file size over 4:2:0, video data may now give twice as much colour information to Adobe Premiere Pro’s 4:2:2 beta. This opens up a number of significant advantages for professional video production workflows:
Better Colour Accuracy: 10-bit 4:2:2 maintains more colour information than 8-bit 4:2:0, which improves colour grading outcomes and increases colour representation.
Greater Flexibility: More subtle tweaks and corrections are possible during colour correction and grading because to the additional colour data.
Better Keying: 4:2:2 is very useful for keying, including green screening, because it makes it possible to remove the subject from the backdrop more precisely and cleanly, as well as to make the borders of small keyed items, like hair, look cleaner.
Smaller File Sizes: 4:2:2 offers the best balance between quality and storage by reducing file sizes without noticeably affecting picture quality, as contrast to 4:4:4.
The combination of NVIDIA hardware and 4:2:2 capability expands the creative possibilities.
Advanced Video Editing
HEVC and H.264 10-bit 4:2:2 codecs provide outstanding image quality, manageable file sizes, and professional video creation in most consumer cameras.
Windows 11 HEVC and H.264 10-bit 4:2:2 decoding is accelerated by GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
Faster-than-real-time playing without stuttering, working with original camera media rather than proxies, smoother timeline responsiveness, and lower CPU load are all made possible by GPU-powered decode, which frees up system resources for creative tasks and multi-app workflows.
On a studio PC with an RTX 5090, the 4:2:2 hardware of the RTX 50 Series can decode up to six 4K 60 frames per second video streams, allowing for seamless multi-camera video editing workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro.
NVIDIA’s sixth-generation decoder and ninth-generation encoder also speed up video exports.
When exporting to HEVC in Premiere Pro, the ninth-generation NVIDIA video encoder, NVENC, provides an 8% BD-BR improvement in video encoding efficiency in GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
Accelerated Adobe AI
With the help of NVIDIA RTX GPUs, Adobe offers a remarkable range of cutting-edge AI tools for idea generation, facilitating more efficient workflows, increased output, and chances to pursue new creative possibilities.
Adobe Media Intelligence, a function in Premiere Pro (beta) and After Effects (beta), for instance, applies semantic tags to clips and analyses video using artificial intelligence. Users can rapidly find footage by specifying its content including items, places, camera angles, and transcribed spoken sentences.
Media Intelligence is 30% faster on the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU than the 4090.
Premiere Pro (beta)’s Enhance Speech function removes noise and improves speech quality. Compared to the MacBook Pro M4 Max, Enhance Speech operates seven times faster on GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPUs.
Explore the plethora of AI-powered capabilities available in the Adobe Creative Cloud and Substance 3D apps by downloading a free trial of the beta from Adobe’s Premiere Pro page.
Open Up (AI) Endless Opportunities
The greatest generational leap in portable performance for AI creation, gaming, and other applications is offered by the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 Series laptops.
Compared to the previous generation, they can run innovative generative AI models like Flux up to two times quicker while using less memory.
With NVIDIA DLSS 4 technology and up to 24GB of VRAM to handle large 3D projects, the aforementioned ninth-generation NVIDIA encoders improve video editing and livestreaming workflows.
In order to provide amazing performance and battery life in small, silent devices, NVIDIA Max-Q hardware solutions leverage AI to optimise every component of a laptop, including the GPU, CPU, memory, thermals, software, display, and more.
With more than 130 GPU-accelerated content production apps and proprietary Studio tools, such as NVIDIA Studio Drivers, all GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs laptops come with NVIDIA Studio platform optimisations. These have been thoroughly tested to improve performance and maximise stability in well-known creative apps.
The game-changing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPU laptops
Adobe will take part in the NAB Show Creator Lab, providing editors with practical instruction to improve their proficiency with Adobe products. Try out Puget Systems laptops with GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPUs for a half-hour to witness lightning-fast performance and see new generative AI features.