PP CS6 Supported Features?

[Chris Borjis]

[Shawn Larkin] “But it doesn’t have to be for doing slick lower thirds”

there are lower thirds templates built into premiere.
all can be modified and saved to your liking.

[Walter Soyka]

[Shawn Larkin] “2) Edit H.264 well on a supported Open CL ATI MacBook Pro?”

Pr does not use the GPU to accelerate decompression of H.264 media. The CPU is exclusively responsible for source decompression.

According to Todd Kopriva’s blog post on Mercury Playback Engine [link] CUDA accelerates:

• some effects (complete list at the bottom of this post)
• scaling (details here)
• deinterlacing
• blending modes
• color space conversions

See the linked post for details.

Walter Soyka
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