AVCHD Editing

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Perry,

Your processor is 5 years old, that is definitely the problem. Consider a Core i7 upgrade

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Petros Kolyvas]

I think it’s important to familiarize one’s self with what CUDA does (CS5): https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

and here (CS5.5/CS6) if you came here looking for similar info: https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/04/adobe-premiere-pro-cs5-5-improvements-in-cuda-processing-and-the-mercury-playback-engine.html

Here’s an imporant section (this should be a PrPro sticky because it’s so misunderstood.
Here’s a list of things that Premiere Pro CS5 and later can process with CUDA:

some effects (complete list at the bottom of this post)
scaling (details here)
deinterlacing
blending modes
color space conversions

While this list grew with CS5.5 and CS6, it doesn’t include pure encode/decode operations (yet.) That means AVCHD playback (and encoding in render), the part where video is decompressed (or compressed), is done in CPU (which needs to be upgraded as Jeff noted) before being handed off to the GPU for any acceleratable (is that a word?) effects.

Part of the whole “native workflow” means we’ve shifted the tasks from being predominantly disk-intensive with Uncompressed, ProRes and DNxHD media to being processor intensive with compressed MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats.

When these formats are packing average data-rates that are less than HDV, then there are a lot of calculations that need to occur behind the scenes to render those predicted frames (P), especially when they’re sitting next to bidirectional ones(B)!

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There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It’s all learned. – Bruce Ediger

[Mitch Drummond]

Hi Perry,

I edit most of my stuff in AVCHD as it is the format thay my NX5P spits out. 1080p 50I (PAL) files with Premiere Pro CS6.

Work flow is great and very smooth. Have to agree you would need to update your CPU possibly even your old GTX to a newer one with more RAM as well to get any improved system Performance.

I am running
Intel Xeon W3550 @ 2.8hgz
Windows 7 professional
12gb Ram
GTX570HD

System works great and is very stable.

Cheers

Mitch Drummond
Adobe Master Collection CS6
GeForce GTX570 SC
Windows Pro 7
Intel Xeon W3550 @ 2.8ghz / 12 gig Ram

[Perry Cheng]

thank you all… it is time to upgrade.

[Perry Cheng]

do you recommend i3, i5 & i7?

Perry