In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine walks you through some basic techniques for using Secondary Color Correction in Premiere Pro CS5.5, focusing on skin tones, as well as individual color selections for more intricate grading tasks…all played in real-time thanks to the amazing, 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 improves the speed with which you can render nested sequences. You can literally nest sequences into sequences and you’ll get the benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine using both the CPU and the GPU or Graphics Processing Unit on an Nvidia card with CUDA. Throw the HP Z800 workstation into the mix and you see rendering speeds like you have never seen before.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 and it's faster-than-ever Mercury Playback Engine, provides unprecedented productivity. Learn how a professional-grade workstation with Intel Xeon processors, combined with CS5.5, enables you to work faster and be more creative than ever.

Learn how to set up your system to play back video, even layered HD video with effects, without rendering. This tutorial describes the best hardware and settings for getting the Mercury Playback Engine to deliver great performance and stability.

Learn how to take advantage of GPU-accelerated effects. This tutorial shows how to identify accelerated effects, and to activate GPU support. It also lists the graphics cards that support GPU acceleration in Adobe Premiere Pro.