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Designed for blazing performance

The Adobe® Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5 software delivers dramatic performance and stability improvements on both workstations and laptops. GPU-accelerated, 64-bit, and optimized for today's multicore CPUs, the Mercury Playback Engine provides an amazingly fluid, real-time editing experience.

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The joy of creative play

Be creative without worrying about the ramifications of additional effects and high-resolution content. Say goodbye to costly delays waiting for intermediate renders. Combine P2, XDCAM, RED, DSLR, and DV footage on the timeline; play with the look and flow at full frame rate; and view in real time on an external HD monitor. With configurations capable of supporting more than nine simultaneous layers and dozens of effects, the Mercury Playback Engine makes every production more creative and efficient.

 

Enhanced Mercury Playback Engine

Get amazing performance from the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine on both desktops and laptops (Windows® and Mac OS). Natively 64 bit and optimized for modern CPUs, Mercury delivers astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration.

 

Workflows that work and flow

With the Mercury Playback Engine, you can put two-hour, thousand-clip projects together as easily as a high-impact trailer:

 

●  Work in real time on complex timelines and long-form projects with thousands of clips — whether your project is SD, HD, 2K, 4K, or beyond
●  Open up to ten times faster on very large projects
●  Mix and match key formats such as P2, XDCAM, RED, and DSLR cameras freely in the timeline, without rendering
●  Experiment with multiple color corrections and effects and see results in real time, even on complex timelines
●  Use real-time keying on multiple clips at all resolutions using the new Ultra® keyer

 

Real-time effects with GPU acceleration

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 requires a 64-bit operating system and works hand-in-hand with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology. The Mercury Playback Engine uses NVIDIA GPU cards to provide a GPU-accelerated 32-bit color pipeline, and most popular effects have been rewritten to run on it — for example, effects like color correction, the Ultra keyer, and motion control all run in real time.

  1. Learn more about the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine and NVIDIA GPU technology ›

Optimized for modern CPUs

Even without a Mercury-supported GPU, Adobe Premiere Pro still offers outstanding performance in software-only mode, thanks to its native 64-bit support and CPU optimizations.

  1. Watch Dave Helmly's quick demo of Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine and Apple's new MacBook Pro 17 with Thunderbolt ›
  2. Learn how a professional-grade workstation with Intel® Xeon® processors, combined with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, enables you to work faster and be more creative than ever ›
  3. Watch how Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 improves the speed with which you can render nested sequences, using the HP Z800 workstation ›

Accelerate your HD workflows

Take full advantage of extensive optimizations for 64-bit systems with 64-bit native applications.

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Don't take our word for it: Check out the results from an independent benchmarking study on the power of Production Premium.

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Visit our forums for deeper technical information and frequently asked questions about the Mercury Playback Engine.

Find a workstation to fit your needs

Intel offers a tool that recommends the best workstation configuration for you and your production workflow.

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Accelerated rendering

The Mercury Playback Engine doesn't just deliver blazing performance and a fluid editing experience. By more optimally using your entire system performance, it also accelerates output, reducing the time required to deliver content to your clients. The only thing we can’t help you decide is what to do with all of the free time you'll now have.

 

Mercury brings performance gains on all of the GPUs supported today in CS5.5. If you're upgrading your system today and want to get the most out of your configuration, the following graphics cards offer significant additional acceleration by the Mercury Playback Engine:

 

  1. GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS)
  2. GeForce GTX 470 (Windows)
  3. GeForce GTX 570 (Windows)
  4. GeForce GTX 580 (Windows)
  5. NVIDIA Tesla C2075 card (Windows)/Maximus configuration /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file
  6. Quadro FX 3700M (Windows)
  7. Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
  8. Quadro FX 3800M (Windows)
  9. Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS)
  10. Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
  11. Quadro 2000 (Windows)
  12. Quadro 2000D (Windows)
  13. Quadro 2000M (Windows)
  14. Quadro 3000M (Windows)
  15. Quadro 4000 (Windows and Mac OS)
  16. Quadro 4000M (Windows)
  17. Quadro 5000 (Windows)
  18. Quadro 5000M (Windows)
  19. Quadro 5010M (Windows)
  20. Quadro 6000 (Windows)
  21. Quadro CX (Windows)

Adobe is planning to support additional cards in the future, including some of the new NVIDIA solutions based on the upcoming Fermi parallel computing architecture.

 

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