ATI 5770 and Premiere Pro CS6

[Erik Mickelson]

Great! How about results?

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Andrew Stone]

Thanks Erik for the reply. I am asking if someone who has an ATI 5770 and Premiere Pro CS6 installed has tried to text file change that allows a bunch of uncertified Quadro cards and now some ATI cards to work with Mercury Playback Engine.

Not looking for editorial comments at this point.

Thanks.

-Andrew

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Steadicam & Camera Operator

[Mike Molenda]

Yep. Hacked the opencl_supported_cards.txt, and hardware accelerated MPE is now enabled on my system. I am taking the “trial” part of “trial version” very seriously 🙂

Haven’t put it through any serious tests yet, but it seems to marginally accelerate unrendered playback. Running into the same dropped frame for rendered material issue as people on MacBook Pros, though.

I should also note that I’m using a 5770 on a system that technically doesn’t support it (2006 Mac Pro).

If you give it a shot, I’m eager to hear how it works for you.

[Andrew Stone]

Hi Mike,

That is great news. I parked my ATI 5770 last summer when I moved to an old GeForce 8800 GT that runs CUDA to get PP CS 5.5 to work with Mercury Playback.

Sounds like I will be able to use the 5770 again in my Mac Pro 2.66 (version 1,1) which it sounds like this is the machine you have. Too bad there is a caveat though.

Thanks!

-Andrew

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Steadicam & Camera Operator

[Mike Molenda]

I have also heard that you need to be on Lion (10.7) for the OpenCL enhancements to work. So don’t crack open your machine unless your OS is up to date! I remember the 5770 is kind of a pain to get in and out of the slot.

I primarily use Snow Leopard, but I’m running the CS6 trials on a Lion HD that I have in Bay 2.

[Douglas Morse]

I have a mobility 5850m in my iMac. Can you give the steps to ‘hacking’ the txt file (though the card shows up as an HD 5750 in About this Mac) It has 1GB of VRAM, which is I think essential for the CUDA acceleration on the graphics card I think…

[Mike Molenda]

It looks like the video Andrew linked in his original post walks you through it. Just substitute the name of your card for the Radeon 6970M the guy in the video is using.

I did mine through some trial and error. I could do this since I’m on a trial version on an expendable additional OS installation, and wasn’t too worried about screwing things up.

All told, you probably should avoid doing this if you have a paid version installed on your primary drive. But if you want to take the gamble, it’s better to follow the instructions of someone who appears to know what they’re doing than someone like me who basically stumbled through it.

[Douglas Morse]

I’ve got a secondary firewire boot drive. Since I’m in the middle of a project, I’ll try 6.0 (and the hack) from there with a clean install. If it works, I’ll start using 6.0 exclusively. If not, I can go back to my primary boot drive where 5.5 is installed (and revert to a previously saved version of the project if need be)

From what I understand, unlike FCP, you can go back and forth with the same project between the two versions. I’ve also noticed that despite being a .0 release, people are NOT reporting a lot of bugs/crashes.

[Erik Mickelson]

You obviously have not been reading the cow. There are many freezes and crashes with CS6, mostly on Macbook Pros. Windows is probably better. There is already CS6.01 we just do not have it yet. Someone already has it on the Red user forum. Buggy buggy so far.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Douglas Morse]

Is it possible to have cs6 and cs5.5 on the same drive?