
processing of some things using CUDA (and OpenCL in Premiere Pro CS6)Įveryone who has Premiere Pro CS5 or later has the first two of these. Those improvements include the following: What is the Mercury Playback Engine, and what are CUDA and OpenCL? Mercury Playback Engine is a name for a large number of performance improvements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and later. It’s very difficult to have a conversation in the comments of a blog post. If you want to ask a question about this subject, please do so on the forum thread, not on this blog post. But, as forum threads do, it got a little messy, so I thought that I should consolidate the information here. I wrote this as a forum post because I wanted to invite questions and conversation. That's just my opinion though.CUDA, OpenCL, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere ProĪ few weeks ago, I wrote a forum post to try to clarify some things about CUDA, the Mercury Playback Engine, and what it all means for Adobe Premiere Pro. if the video is "the whole thing" then your client might be better served streaming the video through Facebook Live instead as that is better served for video streaming, and then if a zoom session needs to "watch it" also, then someone could screen share the FB live stream. Is this video just one small part of their entire Zoom presentation? If so, I get it. Give them a 720p version just to ensure they have no problem with playback, and a master copy with the best quality available. Still, I think your line of thinking is good. Heck it may not even capture at 29.97fps but I honestly don't know Zoom's behavior for screen sharing.
That said, Zoom doesn't stream videos files directly, does it? At the end of the day doesn't Zoom just do an internal screen/window capture and then compress down to whatever low bitrate it wants to use before sending it out. This will also ensure it's at a bitrate that even a slow drive will handle. I mean, well of course it does: the video needs to be in a format that is widely compatible for them to pay (so H.264 is the way to go). Is your client essentially doing a "Screen Share" of the video file and sharing that through Zoom?