Re: Stupid questions regarding CUDA, OpenCL and Premiere 6

These two blog posts by Todd Kopriva give you the run down on what CUDA and Open CL can handle in Premiere Pro CS6:

http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2012/05/opencl-and-premiere-pro-...

http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-en...

To summarise: CUDA accelerates ( and in some cases produces higher quality renders): scaling, deinterlacing, blending modes, color space conversions and some effects, namely:

Alpha Adjust, Basic 3D, Black & White, Brightness & Contrast,Color Balance (RGB),Color Pass, Color Replace, Crop, Drop Shadow,Extract, Fast Color Corrector, Feather Edges, Gamma Correction, Garbage Matte (4, 8, 16), Gaussian Blur, Horizontal Flip, Levels, Luma Corrector, Luma Curve, Noise, Proc Amp, RGB Curves, RGB Color Corrector, Sharpen, Three-way Color Corrector, Timecode, Tint, Track Matte, Ultra Keyer, Video Limiter, Vertical Flip, Cross Dissolve, Dip to Black, Dip to White, Push transition

Open CL accelerates all of the above apart from: Fast Blur effect, Gaussian Blur effect, Directional Blur effect, Basic 3D effect.

This fxguideTV episode is also worth a watch: http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-145-ae-and-adobe-cs6/

Be interesting to see whether the degree of acceleration provided by Open CL cards matches similarly specced CUDA cards.