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1. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Mylenium Feb 22, 2012 1:08 AM (in response to Cris is Bliss)At this point only Premire Pro uses these features. This may, however, change in CS6. You never know...
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2. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Todd_Kopriva Feb 22, 2012 3:17 AM (in response to Cris is Bliss)That question is addressed toward the end of this article:
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What about Mercury in After Effects?
The term Mercury Playback Engine refers to Premiere Pro. It has nothing to do with After Effects. After Effects CS5 and later is a 64-bit application, and it has been multithreaded for a long time, so those improvements are there. But After Effects doesn’t use CUDA (though a few third-party plug-ins do).
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3. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Cris is Bliss Feb 22, 2012 1:52 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)Thank you both for the feedback.
In reading the hardware requirements I realize that I need a 7200 RPM HD. Do I use this HardDrive for my system folder and applications or is it for the storage of the media that I will be editing
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4. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Dave LaRonde Feb 22, 2012 2:19 PM (in response to Cris is Bliss)Keep in mind that the system requirements are MINIMUM requirements; what sane person would run AE 10.5 on a multicore system with just 4 gigs of memory?
Depending on the nature of your work, you may need a RAID with an ESata connection for your media files. It wouldn't be just for AE, Premiere would benefit as well.
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5. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Cris is Bliss Feb 22, 2012 3:01 PM (in response to Dave LaRonde)Thanks for thats info, I am upgrading to 12 mb of memory.
Currently I have an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Graphics Card that came with my Mac. I was looking at replacing it with the GTX560 (as suggested by a tech person at Apple) since the GForce GTX285 (recommended by Adobe) is no longer availible and it has CUDA capabilities for Premiere.
My question is will this or any other card (under$200) also be an improvement for AE. I was trying to understand the tech numbers on the cards but I'm getting confused.
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6. Re: CS5.5 Mercury Playback Engine and the Cuda Card with After Effects
Dave LaRonde Feb 22, 2012 3:13 PM (in response to Cris is Bliss)Cris is Bliss wrote:
I was looking at replacing it with the GTX560 (as suggested by a tech person at Apple) since the GForce GTX285 (recommended by Adobe) is no longer availible and it has CUDA capabilities for Premiere.
My question is will this or any other card (under$200) also be an improvement for AE.
I'll take a wild guess and say you actually meant you're getting 12 GIGAbytes of memory and not 12 MEGAbytes. That's good. In AE-land, the more RAM, the merrier.
Here is your sole consideration when choosing a new card: how will it improve the performance of OTHER applications I run? The type of card is virtually irrelevant to AE. Basically, you just need a card.
And don't go soliciting the advice of some Apple Geek about what's good for Premiere: ask people who run Adobe Premiere. I believe there is a forum for such individuals on this very web site.




