Will this graphics card work with Premiere CS5.5

[Martin Jordan]

Never mind answering this question. I’ve found out that:
GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS) (is no longer available)

Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS) (has many issues and way over priced)

Quadro 4000 (Windows and Mac OS) (has many issues including freezing & kernal carshes)

Apparently for right now my choice is to stick with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 that I have now but won’t be able to take advantage of the mercury playback engine.

There just doesn’t seem to be any good choices for that feature in a MAC work station right now.

Quad-Core, 2.93GHz, OS 10.6.8, 32GB Ram, external 4TB RAID eSATA, 4TB Internal, ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card, FCP Studio 7, AE 9.0.2, Boris BCC, FEC, CoreMelt 2, FxFactory Pro 2, idustrial revolution Volumetrix, Yanobox Motype, Squeeze for the Web, MacBook Pro (MBP) 2.6 GHz, Panasonic HPX300 Video Camera, 2 – Canon 5DMKII’s w/Pclix controllers.
The entire Adobe Creative Suite 4, Design Premium.
Owner of Full Graphics Design Firm Houston, Tx 21 yrs.
Mac user since 1988.

[Kevin Monahan]

Mercury Playback Engine is a name for a large number of performance improvements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and later. Those improvements include the following:

• 64-bit application
• multithreaded application
• processing of some things using CUDA

Everyone who has Premiere Pro CS5 or later has the first two of these. Only the third one depends on having a specific graphics card, which accelerates certain functionality. More info here: https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

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[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Martin Jordan] “Quadro 4000 (Windows and Mac OS) (has many issues including freezing & kernal carshes)”

Q4K Mac issues have been largely fixed with the latest driver from what I hear.

Alex (DV411)

[Todd Kopriva]

Here are details about what Alex mentioned:
https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/06/quadro-4000-driver-and-cuda-driver-update-for-mac-osx-v10-6-8.html

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[Robert Brown]

A couple of weeks ago I bought anew GTX 285 Mac card of ebay for about $380. Great card and works in Bootcamp Win7 64 too. And from what I’ve read it is comparable to some of the Quadro cards in performance but a lot cheaper. And Cuda is the way to go for PPro. I’ll be selling my ATI 5870.