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  Adobe Media Encoder CC – You Need to Add Unsupported CUDA Cards to supported_cuda_cards.txt

  Posted by Keith Moreau on September 1, 2013 at 5:17 pm

  Hi Folks

  I’m running on a Mac Pro with an NVidia GTX 770 with 4GB. Premiere Pro CC utilizes the GPU for playback and export but will give you a warning when you first enable CUDA in Mercury Playback Engine. However…

  I was noticing that when I queued the export to Adobe Media Encoder CC, it was taking forever to encode simple queued sequences.

  After doing a bit of research on the internet and even in these forums I realized that while Premiere Pro was being ok with supporting a non-supported card, Media Encoder was not. I added the GTX 770 to the supported_cuda_cards.txt file locate here: /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CC/Adobe Premiere Pro CC.app/Contents/ (you will need to be slightly geeky to find and modify this file – more info than I care to provide in this post but you can look up how to locate files in Mac OS).

  Voila! AME now encodes super speedly, like 4 times as fast as before!!!

  Thought I’d just provide this little tip for people experiencing this problem.

  Adobe… can you do something about this? I know it’s a corner case but really – maybe something in AME preferences or something… Like “Use CUDA capable card even if not on supported CUDA list” checkbox or something.

  Now I can get back to work.

  -Keith

  P.S. It was also recently reported that just deleting both supported_cuda_cards.txt as well as the OpenCL file has the same results for AME CC, maybe that’s easier than editing it. I also added this to the Adobe Premiere Pro forums as well.

  Keith Moreau replied 12 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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