Adobe “Mercury Playback Engine” – A Total Gamechanger.
by Rich on Feb.27, 2010, under Software
Beware MAC and Final Cut Pro users….it seems Adobe will be turning heads in the near future. They are developing something called the “Adobe Mercury Playback Engine,” which is a software-baedgraphics accelerator that uses the computer’s CPU and GPU in combination to achieve mind boggling playback and render speeds. If you’re skeptical, as I always am, then take a gander at this video:
Playing unconverted AVCHD and RED 4k FILES at FULL RESOLUTION without so much as a hiccup? Rendering it in SECONDS?? I don’t care if you’re married to a MAC and FCP, if these claims are true then it’s silly to continue calling FCP the “standard.” Will Hollywood eventually look to Premiere as the NEW standard for nonlinear editing?
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September 11th, 2011 on 2:42 pm
Thanks, Richard for your outstanding blog with all that you give away, which might be compared to college course. But, being crazy in perfecting the quality of output movie from PrPro CS5, I’ve got to 5DtoRGB script, than installed codecs from Apple (Apple Pro Res 4444) at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1396 for Quick Time components, and have gotten output movie in such quality, that I wouldn’t ever expect to get, using Pro res 4444 codec for export in PrPro. “Animation” can rest now.
September 15th, 2011 on 7:02 am
@Sergey: I assume you’re on a Mac? Can’t you just use Adobe Media Encoder to encode files to Prores?