Adobe Media Encoder Mpeg 2 Codec Missing Or Unavailable Premiere Series Nvidia Card

Windows only and requires Pascal or Turing series Nvidia card for HEVC.

These settings are only relevant for import and editing using the Cinegy Daniel2 codec format.

There are three options: GPU Acceleration, Asynchronous Import and of Concurrent Decoders.

The default is that all options are all enabled and the number of decoders set to one.

By disabling GPU acceleration for import and editing the plugin is switching to CPU mode for handling the Daniel2 format.

This means that a NVIDIA GPU card is not required for import or export - as you can also choose CPU based export.

The Daniel2 CPU codec is fast.

Very fast. On some very powerful machines with many CPU cores the CPU version of Daniel2 is faster than the GPU version.

Also, sometimes there is no GPU to be had which now is no problem anymore.

Now you can start Adobe Premiere or Media Encoder and Daniel2 MXF files will look like any other media file format the Adobe products handle natively.

This wraps all elements - video, audio, and indexes - all in one easily manageable files.

Of course you could also just export audio, but for that you dont need a Daniel2 codec.

Daniel2 settings can be freely chosen, so this may take some trying to find the best combination for you.

This makes setup a bit more complicated but you get exactly what you want.

Progressive in this day and age is always preferred, but with HD and below one still faces interlaced video.

For most cases 10 bit should be enough apart maybe from high-end film production.

For some cases also 8 bit maybe be the right choice - e.g.

Dont worry if you only want to do RGB (4:4:4), if there is no Alpha channel you are not wasting any space selecting RGBA anyway, as we would detect the absence of the Alpha channel automatically.

If you need Alpha channel support RGBA is the choice to make.

Of course when exporting the source video format(s) may also be encoded and depending on the nature of the codec this will create additional CPU load adding to the general system load.

On a very fast multi-core Intel Xeon machine the CPU may actually beat the NVIDIA GPU in terms of encode power.

CBR is Constant Bit Rate, meaning the bit rate stays the same as defined by the slider (or typed value) independent of the complexity of the picture and the picture quality may vary unless the rate is set high enough.

The Cinegy H.264 export settings for now are relatively simple and not very much one can do wrong.