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USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
Effects and transitions
Last updated 1/16/2012
GPU-accelerated effects
Some effects can take advantage of the processing power of a certified graphics card to accelerate rendering. This
acceleration of effects using CUDA technology is a component of the high-performance
Mercury playback engine
in
Premiere Pro.
For Premiere Pro system requirements, including a list of graphics cards that are certified as providing CUDA
acceleration of effects in Premiere Pro, see the
Adobe website
. For lists of various categories of hardware compatible
with Adobe Premiere Pro, see the
Adobe website
.
For instructions on filtering the effects in the Effects panel so that you can easily find the accelerated effects, see “
Filter
effects by type
” on page 278.
Jeff Sengstack provides detailed tips for optimizing a computer system and Premiere Pro for performance on the
Adobe website
.
Information about whether a clip can be processed by the CUDA hardware acceleration portion of the Mercury
Playback Engine depends on the dimensions of image and on the available GPU memory. For details, see this page on
Todd Kopriva’s
Premiere Pro work area
blog.
The CUDA processing features of the Mercury Playback Engine also speed up and improve some things other than
effects, including scaling. See this page on Todd Kopriva’s
Premiere Pro work area
blog for details.
This forum post
goes into detail about what the Mercury Playback Engine is and how Premiere Pro CS5 uses CUDA.
For a summary of updates to CUDA acceleration in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later,
see this video by Video2Brain
.
This article on the Adobe website
provides details about the Mercury Playback Engine and CUDA and answers
frequently asked questions.
See this page
for more information about CUDA processing in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and later.
Note:
On Mac OS, CUDA acceleration features require Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later.
Disable or enable GPU acceleration of effects
1
Choose Project > Project Settings > General.
2
In the Video Rendering And Playback section, select the appropriate renderer: Mercury Playback Engine GPU
Acceleration or Mercury Playback Engine Software Only.
List of GPU accelerated effects in Premiere Pro CS5
Here is a list of the effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Adobe
Premiere Pro CS5 (5.0.3) and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later.
•
Alpha Adjust
•
Basic 3D
•
Black & White
•
Brightness & Contrast
•
Color Balance (RGB)
•
Color Pass (Windows only)
•
Color Replace
•
Crop
•
Drop Shadow