Best Config for Premier on a older MacPro 8 core 2X 2.28Ghz

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you. 32 Gbs RAM seem to be the consensus.

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you. As you can see, I am getting suggestions for which video card I should buy. It seems like a number of them will work.

This question still lurks in my mind: now, all these card will work with Premier’s Mercury Engine in speed along processing time?

Do these cares also accelerate trans-coding time when you are done? Or is that handles by the 8 cores of the Mac Pro?

That part I am not clear on…

Regards,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you! How much memory would this card need? I do pretty straight-forward videos?

Regarding Adobe Premier, What is processed by the on-board memory? Does it work with the Mercury Engine?

Thank you for your advice!

Regards,

barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you, Greg. This is my base-line now for set up.

I really appreciate your help.

Regards,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you, Greg! One question: how much on-board memorywould you recommend for this card?

Barry

[Walter Soyka]

[Barry O'Brien] “This question still lurks in my mind: now, all these card will work with Premier’s Mercury Engine in speed along processing time?”

The Mercury Playback Engine is a catch-all marketing term for a set of technologies in Premiere. GPU acceleration is one of these technologies, but GPU acceleration is not the Mercury Playback Engine itself.

Here’s a somewhat old but still relevant link to read. It covers what is accelerated on the GPU. It also notes what is actually processed differently (better!) on the GPU than on the CPU:

https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

[Barry O'Brien] “Do these cares also accelerate trans-coding time when you are done? Or is that handles by the 8 cores of the Mac Pro? “

Video encode/decode is generally handled on the CPU, not on the GPU (RED debayering being a notable exception).

Encoding formats like H.264 via Export or via Adobe Media Encoder may use the GPU to assist with rendering the uncompressed frames but will use the CPU to handle the actual compression. Media Encoder is pretty fast and highly multithreaded, so you may notice much better H.264 compression times than you are used to with other products.

Walter Soyka
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[Barry O’brien]

I had not read that Adobe link. Thank you. I think I now have all the information that I need to build this machine.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Barry