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Any early thoughts on Premiere running on the new MAC PRO?
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[Tom Durham] “ey Dave (or anybody!),
Can you clarify this for the non-tekkies?
OpenCL vs. OpenGL vs. CUDA vs. Dual GPU processing?
Basically, what does the new MacPro mean for Premiere and AE users, vs. what we are doing with nice NVIDIA cards?
THANKSSS!!!!!!!!
-Tom
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Sure… OpenCL and Cuda are competing high level GPU languages. Cuda is NVidia only (mostly at least) OpenCL is proposed as industry standard.
In Premiere Pro we call our GPU acceleration engine Mercury GPU. In 5.0 and 5.5 it was NVidia Cuda only. In 6 we added OpenCL on the mac on some AMD cards. In CC we now support:
OpenCl on Mac AMD/NVidia and Windows AMD
Cuda on Mac/Win NVidiaWe have a full list of supported CC cards here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/
In CC if there are 2 GPU cards and you are exporting we will take advantage of both cards for improved rendering performance.
That help?
Cheers
Dave
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You only list two Radeon M (mobile) series cards on the OpenCL list for Mac. Do you plan to add more? I know you have said you will support the new AMD 6GB cards in the new Mac Pro, good there. It is an extremely impressive machine. And going backwards, what about the 5870’s in all those older Mac Pros? I saw that CC will allow you to test your cards without modifying code in the Terminal, but it would be nice to know beforehand. Thanks.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.3, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe -
I’ve seen the Philip Hodgetts article. Good news. My question is whether or not they will certify other cards for the Mac, especially the 2009-2012 Mac Pro. So far only Radeon M series have been certified. And Mac Pro 2013 has been promised. Thanks in advance, David or Kevin.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.3, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe -
I see they have certified the GTX680 from NVIDIA. That is a fairly new card you can add to your older Mac Pro’s and it really makes them scream, especially in Cuda activated products like Premiere. I have a 2008 Mac Pro with a Nvidia GTX680 Mac Edition in it and it is super fast in Premiere. It also sounds like with Premiere CC we’ll be able to put two Graphics cards in the older Mac Pro to have Dual GPU support for Exports.
Greg Jones
D7,Inc.Greg Jones
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[Greg Jones] “1. It looks like the power button is on the ‘Back’ of the computer. If you were to put this in a rack or even on your desk, you would have to reach around the back to turn on the computer. In some environments this might be difficult to do.
2. Graphics. Right now the graphics on the machine are pretty awesome, but in 1 or 2 years they will probably be obsolete. If the GPU’s are soldered on, we’re pretty much screwed on updating. The only thing that has kept my 2008 Mac Pro alive, is that I’ve been able to update the graphics card and hard drive to SSD. The new Mac Pro seems like it would be stuck in time.
3. Memory. Looks like there are only 4 memory slots. This may not be a big deal if it takes 16GB or 32GB memory modules, but I’m not even sure those exist.
Greg Jones
D7”*I think* they’ve mentioned up to 128GB of ram, so the four slots shouldn’t be a big deal. I also think the GPUs are interchangeable but, given their custom design, only the ‘genius bar’ or other kind of official technical support are likely to be able to change them.
In any event, a business not using Mac only software such as Final Cut or Smoke is better of with a PC workstation.
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I am pretty sure Adobe will update it’s software so it will work perfectly with the New Mac Pro. There might be early adopter problems as usual but I’m confident Adobe will react faster than ever thanks to Creative Cloud.
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I hear that the new Mac Pro is fully supported, with Mercury hardware acceleration running nicely on the firepros. I’m wondering now about how soon hardware acceleration will work on the new iMacs. Could be a great solution for a lot of people (like me) if the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5 was fully Mercury supported. As of a few weeks ago (tested at the apple store) it was NOT…
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Bunch of new GPU support…
https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2014/01/newgpusincc.html
including the smaller imac.
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Here are some benchmark of Adobe Premiere Pro CC with Adobe Media Encoder CC running on the new Mac Pro. See link below. Hope this is helpful.
https://wisebyte.blogspot.com/2014/03/video-editing-on-mac-pro-2014.html
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