Smart Rendering in Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.1, and later)

Hi,
I just wrote a blog post about how smart rendering works in Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.1, and later). Let me know if you have any questions.
Blog post is here.

ECBowen wrote:
BTW is there a similar type blog link on how the hardware MPE engine works that you can also link. There is allot of confusion about that and any information we would give would be 2nd hand or deduction.
Eric
ADK
Try this blog post, "CUDA, OpenCL, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere Pro"

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