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AI-generatedRenderer error. Unable to produce frame — Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration fallback
Context Premiere Pro's Mercury Playback Engine defaults to GPU acceleration (CUDA, Metal, OpenCL) but silently falls back to software-only rendering when the GPU driver crashes, VRAM is exhausted, or the GPU is unsupported. The fallback often surfaces only as the export dialog error Renderer error. Unable to produce frame or Error compiling movie. Renderer r