CS6 mercury playback for iMac?

[Jim Bachalo]

If true that is awesome news!
I also purchased a new 27″iMac last summer with the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB thinking that Premiere CS5.5 would be hardware accelerated.

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[Kevin Monahan]

Unfortunately, OpenCL support for the Mercury Playback Engine is for the MacBook Pro only. Sorry.

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[Cyrus Dowlatshahi]

Hi Kevin,

I have an 8-core Mac Pro from 2008. I’m wondering if a fancy-shmancy $1000 NVIDIA graphics card will make it sing when I edit my Canon 5d h264 footage in CS5.5 (and soon CS6).

Right now my graphics card is: ATI Radeon HD 5770. I bought when I thought I was gonna be using FCP X.

To be honest, I’m happy with the performance now, I’m just curious because everyone is hyping GPU acceleration so hard.

Thanks..

[Kevin Monahan]

You’ll get way more RT effects with an NVIDIA card. If effects are your bag, you might want to get one.

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[Cyrus Dowlatshahi]

Effects are not, really. But I am curious whether a CUDA-enabled card will improve responsiveness in the timeline… J-K-L shuttling/scrubing, etc…

[Kevin Monahan]

[Eben Abbaan] “Effects are not, really. But I am curious whether a CUDA-enabled card will improve responsiveness in the timeline… J-K-L shuttling/scrubing, etc…”

No. RAM and CPUs are more responsible for processing in the timeline. I have 32GB of RAM and everything is really snappy.

If you want to know more about what CUDA is and what it does, see this blog post:

https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

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[Matthew Woods]

H264 codecs never scrub smoothly in any edit system in my experience. The codec compresses your video by computing the image for each frame based on changes from previous frames. It plays great when playing at normal speed, but not when scrubbing. Its possible acceleration might improve things some, but the codec is just not designed to be scrubbed through. If you want responsiveness in the timeline you should consider batch transcoding your footage to a non-temporally compressed codec, Apple Pro Res, Uncompressed, and Photo-Jpeg are all options on mac.

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[Tom Daigon]

H.264 scrubs smoothly on my system.

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[Jim Wiseman]

Mine too. Have Nvidia GTX 285, but I don’t that affects scrubbing much. But I have to drop back to 5.0.x to use my Nikon D7000. Understand the Nikon thing is fixed in 6.0. Nikon D800 on order is supposed to work as well. Mid 2010 Mac Pro. Lots of talk from NAB this morningbabout some AMD cards now working w OpenCL I have top of the line from Apple as well on the shelf right now. Maybe should start a new thread.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Pj Palomaki]

WHY on earth is this not made available for iMac’s??

Seriously, Adobe have been pushing switching to Premiere from Final Cut while the most bought system for editing THESE DAYS is an iMac. Read blogs about NAB last week and iMac’s dominated the floor..

What’s the hold-up?

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