Re: Thank you Apple - and don't change course. Please

Carsten Orlt A lot of discussion here is also about native format support. I understand if you have fast turnarounds you like the fact that nothing needs to be transcoded initially (eventually it will). When you work for month on a single project I couldn't care less about a few nights the computer humming away to get footage transcoded. Again exactly what FCPx does best. Ingest fast to get going and transcode in background. So mercury engine is cool but not necessary.

The Mercury Engine isn't what allows Premiere to edit natively. Premiere has had native support for DVCProHD since CS3. The purpose of the Mercury Engine is to accelerate playback performance- which does improve playback of highly-compressed footage, but also allows for things like real-time chroma keying, which are pretty useful.

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