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…)