Mercury Playback Engine benefits, system design, and minimal rendering

- Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine…is more than a great marketing term.…It happens to be the name of the technologies…Adobe created into Premiere 5 and 5.5…to kind of leverage your computer's GPU and CPU and RAM…to get better performance with difficult material.…It can be almost a transcodeless workflow…if your system is strong enough.…To see that information here, under the file menu,…when I go to my project settings, under general,…you'll see the same window when we started up a project,…and you can see the words up here under rendered,…the Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration,…and it's currently set on my system to CUDA.…

You see, once upon a time,…h264 material is highly, highly compressed,…not every frame has all the information.…Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine…helps handle this footage really seamlessly.…If your system is capable of it,…you're going to be able to get a transcodeless workflow,…and that may begin to fall apart,…especially with older hardware…and footage that's 1080P, 60 frames per second,…