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Live From South Africa: Kicking and Streaming

Submitted by Eli on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 01:47

World Cup 2006: - "Did you see that goal by Brazil?"

- "No, I wish. I'm at work. I'm tracking the play-by-play online, though. Was it a good shot?"

World Cup 2010: - "Did you see that goal by Brazil?"

- "Yes, which one do you mean? I saw both! That first one by Maicon was so amazing that I had to rewind my stream to see it again. I thought for sure the goalie deflected it, but in slow motion you could see that he just bent it right in. Well I need to go file this report!"

In the technology world, four years is an eternity. So, those of us woking on streaming technology not only understand its evolution in the last four years, but can truly appreciate how the presence of video everywhere has revolutionized coverage of the 2010 World Cup.

World Cup ESPN3 Screenshot

Announcing Elemental Accelerator 2.2 for Mac

Submitted by Lisa on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 09:12

Apple logo Today, Elemental announced the release of Elemental Accelerator 2.2 for Mac, a major update to its GPU-accelerated video processing plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4. With release 2.2, Elemental Accelerator provides CS4 users on the Mac significantly faster transcode speeds through support for GPU-accelerated H.264 and MPEG-2 video decoding, processing and encoding. This release offers the same easy integration with Adobe Premiere® Pro® CS4 as Elemental Accelerator for Windows, while offering 2X-4X performance improvements and time savings over CPU-only encoding solutions.

What's new?

New features available in this release include:

Elemental Accelerator Product Tour Video

Submitted by Sam on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 15:38

As you may expect, video is near and dear to our hearts at Elemental. Those who have been following us for years will certainly recall the original Badaboom commercials, which tended to incite strong reactions: some people loved 'em, others thought they were too corny. We believe our newest foray into production is consistent with the professional grade product it represents.

With the Elemental Accelerator product tour video, we wanted to increase the use of motion graphics to create a visceral, impactful illustration of the power of our GPU-accelerated software. Lisa, product manager, and Julie, communications manager, drove the process working closely with local production company Funnelbox Studios to create a unique, professional overview of Elemental Accelerator in 2 short minutes. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Announcing support for MPEG-2 encoding with Elemental Accelerator v2.1

Submitted by Lisa on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 09:34

Elemental today announced the release of Elemental Accelerator v2.1 for Windows, an update to its GPU-accelerated video processing plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. In addition to support for H.264 encoding, Elemental Accelerator now offers support for GPU-accelerated MPEG-2 encoding, allowing video professionals to quickly create high-quality HD or SD output video for DVD media or digital broadcast. As with H.264 encoding, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds MPEG-2 encoding by executing demanding processing tasks on the GPU, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment. Compared to CPU-only encoding, Elemental Accelerator can speed MPEG-2 conversion by 2X-5x!

For more information, check out the new Elemental Accelerator product tour video, which will show you how the plug-in works and take you inside Adobe Premiere Pro to explore the many ways Elemental Accelerator can help you work better and faster!

This release of Elemental Accelerator also offers an expanded set of H.264 presets for a variety of target applications, including presets designed specifically for Apple mobile devices and for YouTube standard and high definition formats.

For users who already own RapiHD or Elemental Accelerator, you can easily upgrade to the newest version:

To access an update: