CS5 is really going to surprise a lot of people.
Adobe have worked really hard on stability and speed... and have pulled it off.
I have been using Premiere since 1.5 and CS5 is the best version ever.

David,

Can you please post a link to this info you quoted?

Adobe Premiere Pro Mercury Playback Engine is faster than CS4 across the board --- works great on your existing system. If you want even more speed, then you need to grab one of the NVIDIA CUDA cards that we've tuned for (GTX 285, Quadro 3800, 4800, 5800, CX .... optimized support for GTX 480 coming in Q3).
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From their Facebook Page - No 3700 or GTX295?

Yep,

Welcome to Facebook

Harm,

Just to add that the poster from Adobe on that Premiere Facebook group is, I believe, Dave Helmly, so the Adobe info is coming straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.


Cheers

Mark

David & Mark,

Thanks for the info and the screenshot.

Adobe CS5 Launch

Almost there!

Does anyone know that if upgrading my GForce 9500 to a GTX 285 will give me faster Media Encoder renders (from a HMC150 AVCHD native footage on the CS5 Premiere timeline) or just faster timeline performance while editing?

Also, there was talk of a 12gb RAM minimum for PPro? this is now 4GB??

I think I saw a demo on Nvidias site that said it would greatly speed up encoding too.

Both, although you'll notice more of a difference in the timeline performance while editing.

4GB is the minimum recommended amount of RAM for Premiere CS5. 2GB is the absolute minimum requirement in order to even run CS5 at all. And, the Windows version of Premiere CS5 requires at a minimum an Intel Core 2 Duo or an AMD Phenom II processor to run. In both processor and memory, higher is better.

I am hugely sceptical - I just don't see what is so newsworthy about being fast on OMG-level-highend hardware? Hell I can be smooth on Quadcore-CUDA-12GB-64bit computer.

I appreciate the forced move to 64bit ('twas about time), but if even CS5 doesn't fix typical Premiere hurdles (impotent reconnecting, instability ("can't activate camcorder"), unusable trimming, lack of sane keyboard editing options, bad interoperability and unreliable export with multiple points of failure (Premiere, varioous servers running in the background and AME), Premiere is NEVER going beyond wedding videography level market.

Good.

You are in for a very nice surprise.

Surprise as in...?