The High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), or H.265, is a processing-intensive codec for both encode and decode that leads to higher video quality at lower data rates. There have been both CPUs and GPUs available for years that have dedicated hardware within them to accelerate HEVC encoding and decoding. But this hardware acceleration requires specific support within software applications to use them. And unlike with software encoders, there are a finite number of supported encoding options that can be accelerated, each of which has to be explicitly supported. The newest updates to Premiere Pro have increased the number of hardware-accelerated options for HEVC workflows, greatly increasing performance with those types of files.