
What NotchLC does is take full advantage of your computer’s GPU to encode and decode the video at lightning fast speeds, up to 5 times faster than real-time. One of the top complaints of any video editor, VFX artist and animator is the length of time it takes to render and export a project, especially at high bit rates.

The LC in the name stands for Luma and Chroma. The creators promise the compression has a ratio of about 5:1, all while keeping the quality of the image intact without an editing system straining to work with heavy duty video. NotchLC is a GPU-powered codec that acts as both an intermediary and for playback with up to 10-bit color depth, and can be encoded and decoded quickly.

Previously available only on the Windows platform, now it has been released for macOS. NotchLC is a free, high quality codec that is GPU powered and built for playback and intermediary, and is supported in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder.
