NVIDIA CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro and the Mercury Playback Engine
Over the past 10 years, the graphics processor unit (GPU) has revolutionized the personal computing experience by enabling rich, interactive 3D graphics. Learn how NVIDIA® CUDA® hardware and software framework is again unleashing the GPU's power, this time for general-purpose parallel computing.
Video editors will be among the earliest beneficiaries of this technology as Adobe introduces the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere® Pro CS5. Before long, all video and imaging tasks are likely to use the GPU by default, just as all real-time graphics applications do today.
The technical detail presented in this white paper is not required for effective use of Adobe® Mercury Playback Engine, but it will make for more informed hardware configuration and purchasing decisions.
