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Technology Sneek Peek: Adobe® Mercury Playback Engine

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November 25, 2009
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Hi guys,

Been working on this blog post for what seems like forever. I hope you enjoy it. Please be sure to post comments there and not here...or at least if appropriate post in both places. 😉

http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/11/technology_sneek_peek_adobe_me.html#more

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Dennis

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tclark513

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I went back to watch the video again and noticed that Dave was getting a yellow render bar above the clips he was inserting into the sequence. Shouldn't there be no color bar at all if he is using the correct sequence preset? I thought you only get the color render bars if effects are added or something changed the original clip. Maybe the new engine works differently.

Colin Brougham

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A yellow bar (at least in CS4) means that a clip in a timeline probably doesn't need to be rendered to play back smoothly and in real time, but it will need to be rendered on export to a device or file. I don't think you're seeing anything different here, at least in general practice--even with all those clips stacked, you still get real-time performance, but on export to any type of destination, the sequence will have to be "cooked". If there was only one clip in the timeline, there probably wouldn't be a colored bar at all, but since he created a multiple-clip composite, that has to be rendered at some point in the process.

tclark513

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Colin Brougham wrote:
A yellow bar (at least in CS4) means that a clip in a timeline probably doesn't need to be rendered to play back smoothly and in real time, but it will need to be rendered on export to a device or file. I don't think you're seeing anything different here, at least in general practice--even with all those clips stacked, you still get real-time performance, but on export to any type of destination, the sequence will have to be "cooked". If there was only one clip in the timeline, there probably wouldn't be a colored bar at all, but since he created a multiple-clip composite, that has to be rendered at some point in the process.

There were a few times where he only used one clip and it was still yellow. I know that is not how it works in CS4 with just adding a clip to a sequence with the right preset. No bar at all until something changes.

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medeamajic

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I hope Adobe will let out a little information about when CS5 will be ready. I woud like to know if Cuda will work with an Nvidia 9400GT?

More info is weclomed.

dradekeAuthor

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Outside of the cards I've mentioned in the blog post, you should expect nothing older than those cards to be supported. Newer cards will be announced as we get closer to something definite.

Dennis

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pebalsamo

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Thanks for the sneak peak... This is great news. I posted about it in a HMC-150 forum. My fellow AVCHD editors will be happy to see this...

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=1828789#post1828789

Phil

PaulieDC

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YAHOO!!!

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY!!

For pete's sake, why didn't somebody tell me about this sooner!! lol!!

ahem... ok... settling down...

Hey Harm/Jim/Hunt, aren't us DSLR newcomers just weird? I'm one happy weirdo though! Fine, $400 for a GTX285, no big deal, what's another few hundred bucks, that's not even half of a 24-70mm lens. I tell ya, if it works like dave showed in that demo, I'm ready.

Dennis, thanks for the sneak peek!

Paulie

tclark513

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Did you guys notice some of the new features? He was exporting straight from Premiere. There is a button at the bottom if you want to send it to the render que.

RDA972

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tclark513 wrote:
Did you guys notice some of the new features? He was exporting straight from Premiere. There is a button at the bottom if you want to send it to the render que.

There are also new presets for DSLR cameras and Sony XDCAM HD 4.2.2, not to mention Export to FCP.

Wow, this looks very, very promising. Dennis, this is not so much a sneak peek as an eye-opener.

PS. I have my credit card ready.

dradekeAuthor

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Hi guys,

Dave Helmly has done a video demonstrating the Mercury Playback Engine in action - you definitely want to watch this.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtable/sneak-peek-at-the-new-adobe-mercury-playback-engine-technology/

Chuck_A__McIntyre

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Can I put it on my credit card? I didn't see the buy now button.

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medeamajic

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That Mercury is awesome! I can not wait for PP CS5. Please post more info about the Mercury technology.

dradekeAuthor

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My request is that you spread the word folks about the blog entry and tell others. If you have a voice in the creative community, please use it to get the info out there.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful thankful Thanksgiving!

Bill Gehrke

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Dennis, this is great news. Are you by any chance also running CS4 on your HP XW9400? If so I would sure like to see the PPBM4 results from this 12-core AMD system. We are severely lacking AMD representation on the benchmarks results page.

I am guessing that I may have to start all over with my hardware benchmarking when CS5 is released. Right now it can test CPU and disk system performance, but not GPU, because currently Premiere is almost completely insensitive to GPU performance

Eric Addison

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I'm really hoping this is part of CS5 - it's very exciting technology. My only question - what will my FCP editor friends use now as the excuse on why they still think FCP is better...

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excited_Genie16B8

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Wrong choices will always find a way to be justified.

shooternz

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You will be fine Jim. Stick with Tape based DV and your ATI Graphics Card. Why would you need anything else?

Panansonic , Adobe...Apple...whoever...Jim can do it better it seems ( Hire him as a consultant in how not to do it)

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Dennis,

Thank you for this. I might just hold off on my new workstation for a bit more, to see what comes of this, and to also help me decide on the GPU. I've been using an older Quadro FX4500 for some years, and it's been fine. Until now, I was thinking about going with a newer one, but now might upgrade that choice, if there is going to be a good reason. Obviously, Quadros are not something that one picks up for 6 mos., until something newer comes out.

You've gotten me to thinking, and thanks for that.

Hunt

shooternz

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What an exciting prospect.

Bring it on...SOON PLEASE.

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