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New to Premiere from FCP – advice about Mercury playback engine?
Hello.
My client’s Mac Pro (1,1) died so I had to buy a whole new setup and have taken a jump to Premiere and the production suite from FCP.
I’ve installed the new Mac Pro with an Nvidia Quadro 4000 and have just run a test from Premiere to encode a file as h264
My project settings (rendering and playback) appear to have updated magically to Mercury GPU rendering… and the export went like hell for leather.
Do I need to tell Premiere anywhere else that I have the card? I am running it without a display and using the stock ATI 5770 as the display video card.
Thanks in advance.
AstridMBP 2.2 GHz intel core duo
4GB ram
GeForce 8600M GT
10.4.11 + FCP 6.04 -
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I forgot. Anyone know of a benchmarking tool to test render times? Preferably h264 as I do loads of that.
MBP 2.2 GHz intel core duo
4GB ram
GeForce 8600M GT
10.4.11 + FCP 6.04 -
Hi Astrid,
I suppose you could go back to Prefs and set Mercury Engine to “software” and time out a test render, then enable “GPU” and render again, to see what the Quadro 4000 is adding for performance.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
> Anyone know of a benchmarking tool to test render times?
See this:
“PPBM5: Premiere Pro Benchmark for CS5 and CS5.5”———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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