What’s New
Perhaps the most exciting addition to Premiere Pro CS5 is the Mercury playback engine. Right off the bat however, is the requirement that you have a 64 bit operating system.
On your PC, that means Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 or Windows 7. For Macs the Snow Leopard addition provides 64 bit.
For your CPU, Quad core with Hyper-Threading provides a marriage to large memory addressing with the ability to process your larger tasks in ‘chunks’ yet accessing your information and application in high speed RAM. A link with a friendly overview to Intel Core I7 is provided at the end of this article. You can think of multiple cores as multiple processers and Premiere Pro CS5 has been written to take advantage having multiple tasks handled at once with these processors.
