Mercury acceleration with new iMac?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Durham] “People I know want to edit 4k raw in Premiere on an iMac…”

Seriously? Why? You edit with 4k proxies first and then bring the RAW in at end color grade.

Heck I don’t even with HD RAW because it bogs down the systems so much. Editing 4k RAW all the way through a project is going to take a major system with dual graphics card and a MAJOR media array.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tom Gomez]

Proxies? What are proxies? 🙂

Point well taken!

But I edit raw all the time on my mac pro with Quaddro 4000 off internal drives… Just bump premiere to 1/2 or 1/4 res for the main edit, which at 4k you don’t notice. Really saves time in our workflow.

I really dig the Mercury hardware acceleration… Hoping to get that option at lower price than mac pro.

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[Ericbowen]

The option is there, it’s just PC instead of Mac.

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[Erik Lindahl]

The iMac should mostly beat the MacPro. Depends on what MacPro and what you do.

[Tom Gomez]

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[Tom Gomez]

Good answer from Adobe:

From https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2013/06/adobe-premiere-pro-cc-and-gpu-su...

Also, some customers may be aware that in the past there was a not-so-secret way of enabling non-supported GPUs by the ‘hacking’ or removal of a text file. This is no longer necessary in Premiere Pro CC. As long as you have a reasonably modern card with at least 1GB of VRAM, you will still be able to enable that card in the Project Settings dialog. A warning message will appear letting you know that your card has not been certified by Adobe, but once that dialog is clicked through you can use your GPU. The team does try to certify as many GPUs as possible, but we can’t test everything, so this is a way to let you decide if you’re happy using an untested configuration.

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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB may not be officially supported (tested by Adobe) it will still allow you to enable GPU acceleration.

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

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