Mercury Playback engine hack

Jacob Kerns
July 11, 2011 at 6:03 pm

Make sure your Quadro has 1GB video memory or more or it won’t work. I made the mistake of ordering a card with 512Mbs and it won’t work. Some say it will work with 700MB+ but just to be save make sure it has a gig or more.

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Jim Bachalo
July 11, 2011 at 6:32 pm

Will this hack work with other video cards?
Recently got what I thought was a ‘top of the line’ imac (i7 27″ ) but was disappointed to see that Mercury Playback was not supported via hardware.

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Jacob Kerns
July 11, 2011 at 6:35 pm

Here is the link to the hack.
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Your video card has to be a Nvidia Chip and at least 1GB ram.

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Lawrence Gray
July 12, 2011 at 3:50 am

It’s an NVIDIA QUADRO FX 5600 which is 1.5gig. So in theory it should work.
I’ve updated drivers etc etc and done everything I was supposed to do in the hack and it still wont play.

So maybe there’s just one stage I haven’t done?

Lawrence Gray
Mike Cohen
July 12, 2011 at 1:17 pm

There is a reason it is called a hack. Are you going to call adobe and ask why it doesn’t work?
Hardware is approved for a reason.
Mike Cohen
Borkowski Patrick
March 25, 2013 at 3:02 pm

Hi Laurence, I’ve you resolved your problem with quadro fx5600 and mercury playback en gine because I’ve got the same card and the same problem…:(…Thanks in advance. Best regards Patrick

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