Does iMovie 11 use the GPU to accelerate encoding videos?

I used atmonitor. The GPU utilization doesn’t even break 5%. The GPU works harder to actually play the video than to import or encode them >.<
It seems like iDVD does put it to SOME use... ie when I’m encoding the actual video (and not the menus) the GPU is usually at 15-20% utilization.

And just so there’s no confusion, I’m currently using iMovie ’09 and not iMovie ’11. I was just asking if ’11 uses the GPU or not so I know if it’d be worth the upgrade 🙂

If iMovie 11 doesn’t use the GPUS, I guess I’ll Have to download a trial of adobe. Does it allow you to encode videos to a standard NTSC DVD disc? Makes it easier for grandparents on other side of country to watch home videos... 🙂

Here’s the monitor I used:
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/

Message was edited by: Jackjohnson64

Some software use the computer’s GPU (addition to or in place of the CPU) in order to complete its given task in a shorter period of time. Photoshop is an example of one of these applications; it uses the GPU instead of the CPU to complete its tasks faster. 3DS Max is another example. It uses all available cores to render faster.

Now you might be thinking those all have to do with graphics... Well... Doesn’t imovie have to do with graphics, too? I mean utilizing the GPU to encode video is a good idea IMO. Even if you don’t associate iMovie with graphics, and somehow think it’s impossible for it to ever take advantage of a GPU, what about the other software that’s completely unrelated to graphics and video encoding? The legality or intentions of the software is questionable... (ie wireless network auditing) But regardless, it still takes advantage of the GPU to accelerate its tasks to incredible speeds. If stuff like that can do it, why can’t a program designed for processing video do it?

Anyway, I won’t be able to tell you if adobe makes NTSC discs or not. I already have toast 10 which I just discovered it burns NTSC DVD discs and even Blu Ray video discs without returning a demuxing error every other video. And to think it was only useful for burning data discs. 🙂 It doesn’t use the GPU either, but it seems to encode DVD video considerably faster than iDVD.