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The Adobe Mercury Playback technology also allows users to get more power from their CPUs and GPUs. By using the CPUs and GPUs in parallel, you get unbelievable performance running in a clean, 64-bit operating system (remember, all future versions of Premiere are 64 bit ONLY, which means a minimum of OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard or Windows 7 64 bit). By running in parallel, the CPU can take over tasks where the GPU is not used.

Important note to Adobe product users!
Don’t buy any 32 bit hardware or system software if you plan on upgrading to the next version whenever it ships. This new technology runs in a pure, 64 bit software and hardware operating environment.

MOVING TO 64-BIT SYSTEMS

Today’s video production workflows benefit tremendously from applications that are designed to run natively on 64-bit operating systems. This is why Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects® will be 64-bit native applications in the next release and no longer support 32-bit operating systems. To take full advantage of Adobe software’s extensive optimizations for 64-bit systems now, and native 64-bit support in the future, Adobe recommends the following:

For PC users:

Most PCs purchased since 2005 are already running 64-bit operating systems or can be easily upgraded. To upgrade your computer, we recommend you install:

• A 64-bit edition of Microsoft® Windows Vista® or Windows® 7
• Hardware drivers for Windows Vista 64 bit (NOTE: 64-bit drivers are necessary to run the hardware; 32-bit drivers do not work)
• Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista

For Mac users:

Mac OS X and Snow Leopard (v10.6) are already 64-bit capable. All you need to do is add more RAM.

Upgrading your RAM:

For high-end workflows, more memory improves performance significantly, making a 64-bit operating system essential. These guidelines will help you:

For optimal performance, we recommend a minimum of 12GB of RAM.

ADOBE MERCURY PLAYBACK ENGINE

Adobe is working on a playback and rendering engine for Adobe Premiere Pro called the Mercury Playback Engine. This new engine is NVIDIA® GPU-accelerated, 64-bit native, and architected for the future. Native 64-bit support enables you to work more fluidly on HD and higher resolution projects, and GPU acceleration speeds effects processing and rendering.

The Mercury Playback Engine offers these benefits:

• Open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD and higher resolution sequences in real time, enjoy smooth scrubbing, and play back complex projects without rendering.
• See results instantly when applying multiple color corrections and effects across many video layers.
• Work in real time on complex timelines and long-form projects with thousands of clips — whether your project is SD, HD, 2K, 4K, or beyond.

Ensure your system is ready to take advantage of the Mercury Playback Engine in a future version of Adobe Premiere Pro. The Mercury Playback Engine works hand-in-hand with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology to give you amazingly fluid, real-time performance. See it in action

If you’re interested in upgrading your system today, the following graphics cards are supported by the Mercury Playback Engine:

• GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac)
• Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
• Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac)
• Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
• Quadro CX

Adobe is planning on supporting additional cards as they become available, including some of the new NVIDIA solutions based on the upcoming Fermi parallel computing architecture.

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Change is a constant in this environment…
Rodney – DCFCPUG Leader

With Snow Leopard (10.6), Apple adopted the standard usage of terabyte (TB) which equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10-to-the-12th bytes. Hard drive manufacturers have always specified drive capacity with standard usage which will now match what Mac OS X reports.


WIth Leopard (10.5) and previous versions of Mac OS X, Apple used the binary interpretation of terabyte, (technically a tebibyte) = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 2-to-the-40th bytes. Windows also uses binary interpretation.


Under Snow Leopard, drive capacity will be shown per drive specifications. For example, under OS X 10.6, a 1TB drive will appear as a 1000 GB capacity drive (but under OS X 10.5 as a 909 GB capacity drive).


For additional information see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419.


What does this mean in real terms? Do I get an immediate increase in storage space?
Formatting or actual capacity does not change at all, only the \f1 reported\f0 capacity because of the change from base-2 to base-10.


Should I reformat the drives before attempting to plug in a previously 10.5 formatted unit into a 10.6 machine or vice versa?
Reformatting is not necessary at all.


What happens if I plug a 10.6 formatted unit into a 10.5 machine or vice versa?
The volume is seen normally. It is completely compatible and can be transparently moved back and forth.

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Rod – DCFCPUG

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Create menus, add buttons, and jump buttons to tracks containing video/audio/image files. Make an iPhone app in 30 minutes with appOmator … Designed by macProVideo.com’s very own Martin Sitter, the appOmator is the perfect tool for anyone that want’s to present their content on the iPhone. These tutorials are created by Martin himself, so you get the straight goods directly from the maker of appOmator.

Martin, looks like a great environment to design, build and manage iPhone apps.  Can’t wait to see what you do for the iPad!

System Requirements

• Mac computer with Intel Processor, 1 Ghz or faster
• Mac OS X 10.6 (SNOW LEOPARD) or newer.
• 512 MB RAM
• 100 MB free disk space on your hard drive

Rodney – DCFCPUG Leader