No Mercury Playback Engine for intel iris?

Question

I'm using Premiere Pro CS6 and the option to use Mercury Playback Engine Accelerator for rendering is greyd out. Is there any way to fix this? I'm using:
Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch, Late 2013
2.8 ghz Intel Core i7
16gb 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris 1024 MB
Rendering is taking forever and I bought this machine specifically for rendering. Please tell me there is a way to make this work.

Answer 1

There is a no short answer that include a Yes.  There is a long answer that includes a No and explains why.
The Mercury Playback Engine uses two components, CUDA for nVidia cards and OpenCL for select ATI cards on Macintosh machines.  To get MPE working on other cards would require rewriting the way that we check the authentication of the cards.  That is something we've tried to enable in CC, however it is one of those advanced features that we will not be including in the perpetual product.  That's one of the downsides of the perpetual model.
Now, is MPE the end all solution for fast rendering?  No, it really isn't.  It can give a major boost, however having a powerful processor and solid RAM is still going to be a major help as well.  Add to that the fact that not all footage is sped up through Mercury use, and not all effects take advantage of Mercury boosts.  Sometimes projects take a long time to render.  Use the Adobe Media Encoder to queue up your encodes for your off hours, or just use it as an excuse to go get a cup of coffee or tea and relax.  Don't get too hung up on the idea of chasing the Mercury ideal.