Nvidia's Cuda gets on a video-editing roll

Take three

NEXT IN LINE to give kudos to Cuda, digital video and audio software firm, Cyberlink, has announced it's working with Nvidia to make faster HD video editing software available, by using the GPU.

Cyberlink says that by making use of Nvidia’s Cuda technology, it can now provide much speedier video rendering performance and let users mess around with all kinds of visual video effects, including Gaussian radial blur and pen ink.

Alice H. Chang, CyberLink’s CEO, gushed “We are very pleased with the accelerated performance we're achieving using Nvidia's Cuda”.

This latest announcement comes just days after Adobe announced its new version of Creative Suite 4 would be supported and accelerated natively on a GPU, and Nvidia’s announcement of a strategic partnership with another video software application firm, Motion DSP, in which it has also bought a stake.

“Adding advanced video effects that simplify and enhance the creative experience requires a tremendous amount of raw processing power” noted Michael Steele, Nvidia’s General Manager of Visual Consumer Solutions.

What we want to know is if Nvidia is using the same swindle its using with Adobe’s Premiere Pro, with the acceleration working only on Quadro graphics cards and not on regular, firmware un-altered, Geforce GPUs, which, surprise, surprise, cost less.