Well, I received my new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 today and installed it in my computer.  Using the Adobe Premiere CS5 GPU Hack, I added in my GTX 480 card to the Mercury Playback Engine supported list.  Figured I’d do a comparison between playback/export times using Software vs Mercury Playback on two separate file formats.  I was using my .mov files from the Canon 5D Mark II and the same files converted via HDLink and altered via FirstLight.  Here is how the results turned out. (more…)

For those that purchased Premiere CS5 with the hopes of CPU Acceleration via the Mercury playback engine and not having a compatible card, there is now hope!  Thanks to a “hack” posted on DVInfo we can now add support for other 200 series graphics cards.  Note, that there still seems to be  memory limitation on the graphics cards.  It seems that 765MB of memory to enable.  Ok here we go: (more…)

Taking videos with the Canon 5D Mark II is becoming more common, I’ve been having trouble working with the files in Adobe Premiere.  The original MOV files are running at 40MB/sec which can bring most computers to a halt.  I recently came across a great article which talked about using Proxy files in order to do all your editing and never have to use the render function in order to see the preview movie playback smoothly. (more…)