Use NVENC & FFMPEG on Premiere Pro

[haneef95]

Hi,

I found this great plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro/Media Encoder. But, this has got some problems & the it doesn't have much support as the developer is busy.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/9107269#9107269

So, I googled a little & came up with an idea, not sure how good it will work out to be, but, I would like you guys to please help me out here.

Basically, I wanted to know if it's at all possible to do this Premiere Pro => Advanced Framserver & AVISynth => FFMPEG configued to use NVENC and export as H.264 & AAC.

I am hoping that this will quicken the render time by offloading some of the load to the GPU (through NVENC).

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/PremierePro (Use Advanced Frameserver intead of Debug FrameServer http://advancedfs.sourceforge.net/)
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#NVENC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvryaRGSK0
http://www.psynapticmedia.com/members/x264-presets-ffmpeg-windows/

Thanks,

PS: Not sure if I have posted in the right forum, if not please, advise me/feel free to move it to another category.

[poisondeathray]

In theory it's possible ; but just a warning that many people have problems with advanced frameserver and debugmode frameserver in PP CC 2014/2015 (and probably 2017) .

On the ffmpeg nvenc side, you would have to compile it yourself for 32bit, unless you use 64bit avisynth because Zeranoe's freely distributed builds only have nvenc compile for 64bit. Most people still use 32bit avisynth because it's more stable, with more plugins and functions.

The quality isn't the best, but if you use high enough bitrates it looks ok

[poisondeathray]

So I revisited advanced frameserver, re-installed and reconfigured a bunch of things and got it working semi-reliably . (At one point it would only run once before you had to re-install everything - basically useless, other times it would serve corrupt audio or video. For some reason I got more than two small tests off working in a row without glitches...maybe the moon is aligned or something)

The problem is a bunch of bottlenecks though the frameserver(s) (technically there is advanced frameserver and avisynth frameserving). RGB24 or RGB32 serves ~25% faster than YUY2 for some reason, but most of the time on "video or film" based projects you will be using YUY2 (and the RGB conversion uses 601 with YUV assets if you do it through frameserver, the "wrong" colors for HD) . The final speed for nvenc h264 + aac isn't as high as you would expect. It gets about 20% speed on a maxwell card (on a 1280x720 test with audio fdkaac encoding simultaneously in ffmpeg , about 450FPS natively, but only about 90FPS fed through the frameserver. The "raw" frameserver speed though avisynth (no encoding) was about 200FPS for RGB, 160-170FPS for YUY2

[SameSelf]

Good stuff pdr. I haven't frameserved out of PP in a long. long time ever since you scared me away from using YUY2 vs UYVY. But reading about your testing makes me less than enthusiastic. It is a shame really. I always loved the concept.