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Premiere Pro CS6 and Asus Thunderbolt MOBO
Howdy. I was curious to see if anyone out here has built a editing machine on the new Asus P8Z77-V motherboard. I just built one and it seems to be a great machine. However I am experience some issues. I’m not sure if it is that Adobe needs to code some support in for the the LucidLogix MVP software that manages the internal and external graphics cards or there is something I did wrong.
Here is the specs of my machine
Apple 27″ Thunderbolt Display
Matrox MXO2 Mini with Max Thunderbolt
Asus P8Z77-V Mobo
Mushkin 32gb of DDR3 SDRAM 1333 4x8GB
Intel Core i7-3770 Ive Bridge 3.4ghz system OC to 4.2ghz
EVGA 03G-P3-1588-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) Classified 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5
OCZ 120gb SSD
Video Raid is
4x 1tb WD Black HDD
Connected to the on board Marvell sata controller
Win 7 Ultimate Sp-1Right now when I call PPro up and play any video clip I get no video just audio. When I go to control panel and open device manager the video will start playing and then I can edit.
It seems to be playing a single stream just fine. However when I am doing multi-cam edits, the video will play fine for a few minuts then it will start to hang and lag behind on me. Also I can’t smoothly scrub through the time line like you see on the Adobe videos explaining the mercury playback engine.
My goals are to use PPro on my thunderbolt display through the thunderbolt port and be able to play back smoothly with out having to go open other stuff to make it work. The Nvidia card is mainly there to support the mercury playback engine.
Oh right now I am editing footage from Canon XF100s full 50mps 1080i.
I did a drive speed test on my raid and am getting about 320mb/s read and write speed.
Brooks Willig
Owner/ Audio Engineer
Western Audio Works
http://www.westernaudioworks.com
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If I am not mistaken that graphics card is seriously overclocked – primarily for gaming purposes. Possibly a culprit? Is there a way to slow it down a bit?
If not, can you borrow a different graphics card (that still works for MPE purposes) and try it out?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
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I’m not a big fan of onboard raid controllers, my experience is that they are not suited for video editing, they miss power and sustained speed. Go for a separate raid controller adaptec/atto.
We had a kickass HP workstation with onboard raid choking all the time, made HP swap out motherboards 2 times, CPU’s 1 time.
No results at all.
put in a medium range adaptec raid controller and all the problems dissapeared.Hemeleers Gunter
Mac Pro, Imac 24″, Macbook Pro 15″ all intel
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I’m wondering if I should in install the lucid logix application that’s it supposed to switch between the onboard graphics and the GPU. Will it work to have the integrated graphics render the GUI and have the GTX strictly for the MPE. Will adobe see the GTX if I have the displays on the integrated graphics.
Brooks Willig
Owner/ Audio Engineer
Western Audio Works
http://www.westernaudioworks.com
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I got it to work. I disabled the Virtu MVP software and support in BIOS and also finally got the correct Nvidia Driver installed. I found 296.10 works anything later does not.
Brooks Willig
Owner/ Audio Engineer
Western Audio Works
http://www.westernaudioworks.com
westernaudioworks@gmail.com -
[Brooks Willig] “I got it to work. I disabled the Virtu MVP software and support in BIOS and also finally got the correct Nvidia Driver installed. I found 296.10 works anything later does not.”
Kudos. Disabled the onboard graphics?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
Hi Brooks,
Thanks for your informative posts – really useful for a newbie like me. This is the first time I am building a desktop PC so I am not an expert. I intend to use this mainly for video editing in Premiere Pro CS6.
Configuration:
Intel DZ77RE-75K
Intel 3770K
32 GB RAM
GTX-680
Windows 7 Pro – SP1My question:
Were you able to use LucidLogix Virtu to use Intel graphics for decoding/encoding and use GTX and all the power of CUDA for MPE seamlessly (without rebooting, hardware changes, driver changes etc.) ?Thanks,
Gautam.
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