New Mercury Engine for Premiere

Not only native AVCHD, but native 7D, native 1D Mark IV, native Red One, native Scarlet, native AVC-Intra, native XDCAM-EX, no transcoding, no file size inflation, no "Log & Transfer", all realtime, including titles and graphics and 3-D effects... all editing right off the memory card, no reason or need to even transfer it to the hard drive if you don't want to...

... with no custom hardware needed. I mean, you need a graphics card in your computer anyway, right?

This is what I've been talking about for three years, waiting for someone to finally do it. Looks like Adobe will be first to really get it right.
 
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Any nVidia card that says CUDA in the marketing, will work. But a more powerful card will allow you to do more, of course. My card is a lower-end Quadro NVS 140M, and I can play most 720p h.264 clips back in realtime, can't quite manage 1080. The card they were using in that demo was said to be a "mid-range card".
 
Woah! Look at that Task Manager. Just how much processors does this guy have in his workstation? Looks like 4 Quad Cores to me.

The exporting with Mercury was not THAT much faster in my book.
One also has to look at the quality. ATI cards come with a tool for encoding.
It´s insane fast (several 100% faster than doing it on the CPUs) but the quality sucks.

I assume, that if it goes direct to the AME quality is at least par.

I´m pretty impressed with what they did with the RED files thou.

Frank
 
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Woah! Look at that Task Manager. Just how much processors does this guy have in his workstation? Looks like 4 Quad Cores to me.
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I think it was two quad-cores with hyperthreading, yielding 16 threads.

The exporting with Mercury was not THAT much faster in my book.
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Yeah, I was expecting more, certainly. But then again, the CPU he's using is a dual quad-core, so... the results would probably be dramatically different if the CPU had been a Core 2 Duo or something.

One also has to look at the quality. ATI cards come with a tool for encoding.
It´s insane fast (several 100% faster than doing it on the CPUs) but the quality sucks.
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Very true -- rendered quality is not a given, we'd have to see what the final output looks like. At least they have the provision there to disable GPU rendering if you want to go back to the CPU-only method.
 
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I'' tell you that what I saw was really impressive.

I wonder what video card is necessary on what Intel quad or octo core

and if a 64 bit boot in needed

Also, does it have Mac and PC specific calls to the GPU and whether nvidia and ATI are supported
 
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I'' tell you that what I saw was really impressive.

I wonder what video card is necessary on what Intel quad or octo core

and if a 64 bit boot in needed

Also, does it have Mac and PC specific calls to the GPU and whether nvidia and ATI are supported
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Yes, MAC and PC.. Video card: GeForce GTX 285 recommended and they are around $300 street so not too bad!

I bet it would be fine on an i7 system with plenty of ram and that GeForce.
 
It's days like today that make me feel good to be a Premiere Pro user :)

Let me bask...

What are the real chances it will be included with CS5, which is scheduled for an April release?
 
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It's days like today that make me feel good to be a Premiere Pro user :)

Let me bask...

What are the real chances it will be included with CS5, which is scheduled for an April release?
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I'd say pretty dang good... It's part of the engine, they already showed a working version... Looks like CS5 should have it.
 
Good times to be an CS user. :) Come my next video card upgrade, I was looking at springing for Elemental Accelerator as well, but I guess now that won't be necessary...

I'm all for streamlining my workflow, but at the same time I'm wary about working with native AVCHD. I'm thinking that I'd still transcode my footage to CineForm. Hopefully that's not just me being a fanboy... I wonder if Mercury will accelerate CineForm too? At the very least I hope this doesn't mean that the CF's own realtime engine will need to be overhauled again... It still hasn't been updated for CS4. :\

I'm new, by the way - hey there.

Gord
 
Hahaha.. I love it when he says never seen before (with the avchd).. That's the way I edit it, An up to date i7 setup with 6gb of ram and windows7 64bits edits avchd at real time, I could even do a multicam sequence...Real time...and scrubbing. But the oother things can be interesting, lets see what comes with cs5...
 
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