CS6 mercury playback for iMac?

[Pj Palomaki]

Sorry about the rant, having some really annoying issues with Premiere Pro CS5.5 and thinking of switching to Avid or even Final Cut Pro X..

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Technical Director / Motion Graphics Editor / Video Editor / Cameraman / DVD Authoring / Flash Programming …

Fruitmedia Ltd
http://www.fruitmedia.net

[Anthony Willis]

I’m not surprised about your ranting. The situation is rather frustrating. My 2006 Mac Pro is dying and I need to order a new pro machine pronto. With the uncertainty about the Mac Pro and this boring avoidance of Open CL (other than this mobile Radeon card) from Adobe, I’m surprised more people are not pretty irritated.

Either Apple should be fitting more Nvidia cards to iMacs (perhaps Macs in general) or Adobe should support AMD’s technology.

Maybe the forum can help me; does anyone know if any of the measly three Nvidia CUDA cards that work on Apple computers can be fitted to the current iMac?

Either way, this seems a shame since the Radeon card is clearly an incredibly fast and capable piece of technology. Furthermore, perhaps TV professionals like me should dismiss this whole Mercury Engine thing anyway and get on with making stuff and not worrying ourselves with gimmicks…

Anthony

[Pj Palomaki]

You might be absolutely right, just frustrated by the broken illusions of ‘realtime effects’ unless you have one of three cards…

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Technical Director / Motion Graphics Editor / Video Editor / Cameraman / DVD Authoring / Flash Programming …

Fruitmedia Ltd
http://www.fruitmedia.net

[Bill Lattanzi]

Hi – Question for Kevin or whomever – Migrating from Media Composer, I currently have CS6, will upgrade to CC once I’m up and running and it makes sense to do so. My graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 6970M, not Mercury compliant. I want to purchase a graphics card that will work for both CS6 and CC. What do you recommend? I’m a cutter, not an effects person, but as of now, I need to incorporate some light aftereffects and photoshop work into my kit bag. And I work in longform, so sequences can get heavy – lots of layers with color effects, positioning, etc.

iMac 27″ mid 2011, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
12 mb RAM

Thanks!
Bill

[Tim Kolb]

Keep in mind that when CS 5.5 came out in 2011, OpenCL was not ready for prime time. That software used CUDA exclusively.

In CS6, they got enough OpenCL working to allow it in MacBook Pros where the users had no other option…and that’s where the two OpenCL cards listed for CS6 come in.

In CC, OpenCL was fully in play…so Adobe HAS taken care of the OpenCL support…way back in 2013.

For those of you waiting for Adobe to somehow ‘upgrade’ 2011 era software to greater OpenCL support…it’s as likely as any other software company updating software it doesn’t even support any more I suppose…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR