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Adobe Production Premium CS5

We just got back from getting a couple of interviews with the Adobe people.

Mercury looks speedy to say the least...

P.S. Jim, in case some of the RED team make it to SmallHD tomorrow, Garret Brown from Steadicam told me he wanted to talk to you all about there latest interview and how it may work with the DSMC...
 
All I ever wanted in any software was the "MAKE PERFECT" button, imagine how much time that would save us, just hit "MAKE PERFECT" and go home...

CS5 looks very promising, sure makes that switch to PC and Adobe very tempting, concidering how Apple is becoming more and more like an indifferent stephfather, caring only for iphones, ipads and iapps.
 
I am kind of disappointed that CS5 supports CUDA only. It should use an open standard like OpenCL or DirectCompute 11. There's no way the much more powerful ATI cards shouldn't be able to use hardware acceleration.

Though I use Nvidia, I am looking to upgrade to ATI. I hope Adobe support OpenCL in the future.
 
I read a quote from an Adobe rep a while ago that Adobe have a general philosophy to prefer open standards and that they would have gone for OpenCL if the newest standard had settled and been agreed - but CUDA has a lot in common with OpenCL so would be relatively easy to move over when they are happy with OpenCL. CUDA allowed them to get a product out now rather than wait for OpenCL.
 
ericyoung said:
I read a quote from an Adobe rep a while ago that Adobe have a general philosophy to prefer open standards and that they would have gone for OpenCL if the newest standard had settled and been agreed - but CUDA has a lot in common with OpenCL so would be relatively easy to move over when they are happy with OpenCL. CUDA allowed them to get a product out now rather than wait for OpenCL.
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That's good news. I can't imagine it being awfully difficult to support OpenCL or even DirectCompute 11. OpenCL seems to have matured by now - especially since the Snow Leopard launch. Look forward to OpenCL support them. Those latest ATI cards have tremendous raw power. (Near 5 Teraflops on the HD 5970!)
 
Eirik Tyrihjel said:
CS5 looks very promising, sure makes that switch to PC and Adobe very tempting, concidering how Apple is becoming more and more like an indifferent stephfather, caring only for iphones, ipads and iapps.
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They released a new Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Server last July. Aperture 3 came out last month, and Logic was upgraded to 64 bit three months ago.

I don't really see how you'd call that caring only for iPhones and iPads. And it's a bit early anyway considering that Apple are (apparently) having a presentation at a hotel in Vegas tomorrow for 'updates about their new hardware and software'.
 
Subhadip Sen said:
I am kind of disappointed that CS5 supports CUDA only. It should use an open standard like OpenCL or DirectCompute 11. There's no way the much more powerful ATI cards shouldn't be able to use hardware acceleration.

Though I use Nvidia, I am looking to upgrade to ATI. I hope Adobe support OpenCL in the future.
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ATI isn't "Much more powerful". Especially when it comes to OpenCL/GPGPU operations. In GPGPU functions (that aren't just integer operations) NVidia 4-8x faster. ATI's GPU cores are still really simple and don't handle large float operations well.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
ATI isn't "Much more powerful". Especially when it comes to OpenCL/GPGPU operations. In GPGPU functions (that aren't just integer operations) NVidia 4-8x faster. ATI's GPU cores are still really simple and don't handle large float operations well.
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really? even with the 5870 and on? Those are ATI's flagship video cards at the moment, they provided some really impressive results. but than again video cards WOULD provide different results when comparing it to workstation apps and games. it's like comparing a xeon processor and your typical everyday processor...
 
All this red vs green talk takes me back to my old job as manager of programming for a gaming/it/lifestyle IPTV channel. I thought i'd outrun all the ATI's more powerful/Nvidia's faster talk over here hehe.

ATI are doing interesting things with companies like OTOY for levereging GPGPU power to make realtime vfx processing more plausable.

Both companies have good products.
 
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