video conversion with hardware acceleration?

I am new to mac os and almost everyone has been telling me that its great for video editing and so on, but I am surprised that I cannot find a single video converting tool with support for either intel QuickSync or AMD's alternative. Anyone here know of any video converting program that supports hardware acceleration for fast conversions?

 

You might want to look for something that supports OpenCL. AMD's OpenCL support is buggy at best so be warned (there's a reason researchers stick with nVidia's CUDA). From what I heard Sony's Vegas recently dropped support of AMD-based OpenCL hardware acceleration for some Vegas features, for instance.

 

I looked into OpenCL, it seems its so buggy atm that nobody feels like using it. Thanks for the input Greg, guess I will just convert stuff on my m18x.

 

I've used OpenCL, works just fine with AMD.

Did you mean in Mac OS X specifically? I wouldn't know about that.

 

it seems flakey in osx for big renders etc lately, OpenGL works much better but not OSX supported as well as windows/linux/solaris.
for large conversions I stick to my portable workstations and desktop

 

I've used AMD's OpenCL Toolchain in industry before. It was bug prone and their OpenCL compiler had some serious problems. We actually managed to prove a 75% reduction in throughput because of a compiler bug that should never have been there, and there was no way to fix it since they don't support inline assembly code like nVidia does (inline PTX is sometimes quite efficient). It took another major revision of the compiler, several months later, to finally fix the issue.

All but one of my clients dropped AMD last year for compute and solely focus on CUDA now.