In January, 2016, I had just completed my 2nd video for Flarecorp Media. I had decided to use my MacBook Pro at the time to do the editing instead of my Desktop Windows computer. When exporting, I noticed I had several options for the Renderer in Adobe Media Encoder. I could use OpenCL GPU Acceleration, Metal GPU Acceleration or software only.

Not wanting to waste time in the future on which setting I should be using, I searched all over the internet and couldn’t find an answer anywhere. I decided it was up to me to figure out the answer and let the world know. The results at the time were to use OpenCL and not Metal.

Apparently I wasn’t the only person curious about which setting to use because over the next year, the video climbed week by week on the number of views. It’s success allowed me to become a YouTube preferred partner and start getting monetization (before they changed the rules in 2018). In a way, it was great to have a “hit” video early on in my YouTube career because it gave me a taste for success and showed me that any video could be popular. You never know what people are going to be interested in so all that maters is to just keep making them.

However, over the past 20 months, people have been asking for an update. Is my advice still true with modern hardware, the newer operating systems and new versions of Adobe Products. Well, I finally got access to some newer hardware and that allowed me to FINALLY make an updated video.

So here it is. Is OpenCL still the go to choice or has Metal finally caught up. Find out in the video below.