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CS6 upgrade problems
Recently our facility upgraded from CS5.5 Axio & MX02 equipped Supermicro systems with Nvidia Quadro 3700 video cards to CS6 Mojito Max equiped Dell T3600’s with Nvidia Quadro 600 cards.
We noticed that the older CS5 projects that did not require rendering now presented us with a yellow render line. We initially believed that this was due to the transition from CS5 to CS6, an initial inconvenience but something we were prepared to live with.
Once we began working with new material we noticed that this newly captured material also required rendering. We’ve created new projects and even created sequences from clips and still a yellow line. And although this would have little to no impact if we were making a file this causes unreliable playback when outputting to tape. We also noticed that no matter what we put in a time line, titles, bars etc generated by Premiere it all needs to be rendered. Were not talking anything complex, this is occurring on single layer events.
The only thing we have noticed a difference in is the player options found in preferences. On the CS5 systems there is an option for the Matrox player and on the CS6 systems where Matrox player is no longer an option. We have enabled the cuda acceleration which has removed the red line renders on 2 layer overlays but still the yellow persists.
We work in 1080i from HDcam sources and capture in mpeg2Iframe. Our CS5 systems were
Supermicro
8 gig ram
Xenon es420
Quadro 3700And our new CS6 systems are
Dell Precision T3600
Xeon es1620
16g ram
Quadro 600Any thoughts, suggestions or philosophical insight would be appreciated.
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2 Replies
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Neither FX3700 nor Quadro 600 are adequate for GPU acceleration in Pr – CS5 or CS6… 🙁
I’d try putting a GTX-760, K2000 or K4000 into one of the systems and see how it performs. Having a good techie take a look at your configuration remotely might be helpful too.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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The yellow line above the timeline is normal for the MPE engine. Any supported media with the Hardware MPE engine active will have a yellow bar above the timeline. It’s the red line now that tells you that you may need to render the timeline for preview. Adobe added the option to render the Yellow line ie MPE accelerated part because some editors were experiencing poor playback and didn’t have the option to render for better preview.
Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com
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