DaVinci, Premiere Pro and the Nvidia GT 120 and the quadro 4000

[Juan Salvo]

I answered in the other forum as well, so this is double posted.

Premiere cs5.5 and under needs to be connected to the card to benefit from it. However this may change in cs6. If you dont need killer speed you can use davinci with just one card.

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[Jose Arce]

Ok, Thanks.

[Margus Voll]

You will not get any satisfactory speed i bet with relatively slow machine combined with not so fast gpu.

Just saying that you do not have any hi expectations.

You may as well need special 4000 and 120 from here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GT120-for-2008-up-Mac-Pro-Dual-DVI-DaVinci-Resolve-Runs-2-30/230736283229?ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1&ih=013&category=3762&cmd=ViewItem#ht_1536wt_1324

Ask David Pirinelli about it

https://my.creativecow.net/David-Pirinelli

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DaVinci 8.2.1 OSX 10.7.3
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Sascha Haber]

Keep the 4000 as primary card, get a any 470 as secondary card and a Y-cable.
Perfect in-the-box solution

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DaVinci 8.2.1 OSX 10.7.2
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Extreme 3D+

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[Jose Arce]

What kind of Y cable you recommend for the 470.
I still have my old ATI HD 4870, I think I need only for my monitors, and the other card for the CUDA process in Premiere and DaVinci.
Or if better buy the 470.
I read from other post the Y cable made some issues in the motherboard.

DaVinci Resolve 8.2
MacPro 3,1
2x 2.8 Quad-Core
14 gb RAM
Quadro 4000
6T RAID

[Margus Voll]

I made my own Y cable and no issues.

Just had extra cable and did cut this in half and soldered this to second cable.

Now i have 4000 and 470 running in one machine.

Really neat setup.

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DaVinci 8.2.1 OSX 10.7.3
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Colin Travers]

I have a 285 and a 470 lightly used for sale if interested let me know..

DaVinci 8.2 OSX 10.7.3
MacPro 12-core 5,1 2.66 Ghz
32GB RAM x4 8GB
Software RAID 0 (8TB Internal)
Nvidia GT120/GTX580
BMD Extreme3D
HDlink3D DisplayPort
Dreamcolor/Panny VT25
Tangent Wave / Wacom

[Mel Feliciano]

Hi Jose, I noticed you posted the same question at “Adobe Premiere Pro” and “Adobe After Effects Expressions” forums. You got some response here but nobody has really answered your question yet.

My situation is similar to yours. I have a 2009 Mac Pro (4,1) with the original GT-120 and was thinking on adding a quadro 4000 to get maximun acceleration with the Adobe Mercury Engine. This is going to be a multi-purpose workstation running also Davinci Resolve. This is an ideal setup as per Blackmagic Desing recommended configurations. What you and I want to know is if there is going to be any conflict with Premiere Pro not recognizing the quadro 4000 card because of the GT-120.

I’m eager to know the answer to this and hear about any user experience with a similar setup. I wonder if you can tell Premiere Pro to use the quadro 4000 and ignore the GT-120.

[Juan Salvo]

[Mel Feliciano] “What you and I want to know is if there is going to be any conflict with Premiere Pro not recognizing the quadro 4000 card because of the GT-120”

As I responded to Jose, the answer is yes. Premiere as of CS5.5 can only use the card the display is connected to for MPE. Resolve, can’t use the card the display is connected to for processing. So you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

The best solution is as Sascha proposed. Y-split for power, and a GTX470 + Quadro 4000, this would allow you to hve the quadro for MPE connected to monitor & the 470 unconnected to any display for DaVinci.

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[Mel Feliciano]

So what you’re saying is that Resolve won’t work if there is a monitor connected to the GPU that will do the heavy processing, in this case the quadro 4000. And Premiere Pro has the opposite behavior; it requires the GUI monitor to be connected to the same GPU that accelerates the Mercury Playback Engine.

Ok, now I get it. Thanks!