Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine & Apple's new MacBook Pro 17 w/ThunderBolt

Here's a quick demo showing how the 64 bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine runs on the new 2011 MacBook Pro's with the AMD/ATI 6750M card. The real purpose of the video is to show that Mercury in fact has 2 playback modes, CPU/OpenGL & CPU + GPU (Cuda) . Lots of confusion about this and hopefully this video will help people see just how fast and clean this 64 bit playback engine is.

Category:

Education

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• Adobe
• Premiere
• Pro
• CS
• 5.0
• 5.5
• AMD
• ATI
• Cuda
• Mercury
• Playback
• Engine
• dhelmly
• FCP

[dhelmly]

XGAUGE came on one of the Apple Developer discs from a much older version of OSX. It does not work on anything with more than 8 threads.

[Persistencemultimedi]

With the exception of the Red footage, is the rest of the this footage being used (un) transcoded. I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop to the new 15" Mac Book Pro and I just want to make sure that I don't have to trancode my AVCHD footage for smooth playback.

[dhelmly]

None of this is transcoded - thanks

[kk6downing]

I want to use Mercury Playback, but I dont know what video card to get. What would be the best video card for Mac Pro?

THANKS

[dhelmly]

You have a few choices. If you can find an older GeForce 285 for Mac, that will be your cheapest option. The Quadro FX4800 for Mac is a excellent card and was replaced by the Quadro 4000 for Mac. The 4800 & 4000 are about the same speed over all. Good deals on 4800's/

[dhelmly]

AVCHD works excellent.

[WorldScott]

This video strikes one as a bit strange. Prior to playback the timeline shows up as red on all of the demos. Red=Adobe Premiere Pro saying it does not have confidence that it will be able to play the content back smoothly. What gives?

[StormsProduction]

This video looks great, but I have almost the same setup but it struggles to play just 2 layers of AVCHD, especially in the first 10 or 15 min after opening PP. But if I have been using it for like 45 min or more, it will eventually begin to play it more smoothly. I have an early 2011 17" Macbook Pro with the 2.2GHz quad core i7 & 8gb of ram and I am using Production Premium CS5.5. What am I doing wrong? this should be able to play it without a problem no matter what.

[SharadiaLProductions]

~ My question is: Do I need a macbook pro to use thunderbolt to work Adobe Production Premium? Will Thunderbolt Pegasus work on a 21.5'' 2011 iMac core i7, or does it have to be on a MacBook pro. [ I do not want to use the iMac 21.5" as a display, but as the main workflow for A.P.P

[raidentheninja]

Does this works on the Windows version?

[toxygen01]

just wondering, where can you get xgauge app from?

[dinnerandashow]

@BlackSupraC2

SSD is even better.

[dinnerandashow]

All I'll say is that I prefer to use my old desktop with the Quadro over my new 17" with the Radeon.

The GPU makes a HUGE difference.

Adobe please support Stream or OpenCL !

So many laptops now have ATI, and NVIDA isn't even a option on many models.

The GPU acceleration cuts down processing time tremendously as well as make things smoother.