nViLog

This nViLog (nVidia Technology Log) site is meant to show the digital artists the hardware and software products which use the CUDA technology intensively. Due to an increasing number of applications and processing requirements of today’s graphics, we (the group at XenonMagazine.com & Digital Media eXtremE Studio) thought it would be great to have a list of available apps, cards, desktop workstations and notebooks that could help the digital artists in image processing (the upcoming Photoshop CS5 and others) and video processing (both gaming, but also video encoding and decoding of video files), so here you have it, a new site which is currently in development in order to ensure an accurate description of the latest products working with CUDA.

We do have the nVidia logo on our site but we are not affiliated with nVidia or any of nVidia’s partners. Yes, this site has a “hint” in its title (envy ), as to suggest that the ATI users have yet to see some dedicated apps that would harness the GPU power of their cards for video encoding – the ATI Vivo encoder is more like a joke when compared to Adobe Media Encoder, TMPGEnc Xpress, Badaboom and other video encoding apps that have support for many video formats (input and output) with advanced video filters (crop, noise removal, color correction and others) – basically, this was a smart move from nVidia to get their GPUs involved in more than just processing video games. Today’s requirements for digital artists are quite various and demanding – the old fashion way to encode only with the CPU is obsolete and it requires expensive quad-core CPUs being upgraded often. The apps mentioned above are not perfect (but then again, nothing is), but they represent a step forward that needs to be encouraged – so that is the aim of this site.