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How to enable mercury engine playback
I’m an After Effects user, who used to use Final Cut for my editing projects. I played around with Premiere CS5 however, and was really impressed with it. Premiere has come a long way.
We decided to spring for the GeForce GTX 285 card to enable the mercury acceleration for an upcoming project. I installed the card, and have upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, but I don’t seem to be getting the acceleration in Premiere. Nothing seems to be rendering/previewing any faster, and the “accelerated effect” icons in the effects browser are still greyed out. I can’t seem to find any performance or acceleration preferences in premiere. What do I need to do to enable the mercury acceleration? Do I need to reinstall CS5 now that I have the appropriate hardware installed?
Thanks,
-Matt
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Go to the project settings and switch the MPE setting.
It’s probably still in software mode.
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I also got a GTX 285 card and when I installed it, the playback engine would not work with the hardware. since you have not responded I will assume you have already figured it out, but if anyone else reads this, you must not only install the drivers, but the CUDA development kit as well in order for Premiere to take advantage of it. 🙂
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Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the tip. I haven’t figured it out yet. I was actually on the way home from work. I’ll try it out tomorrow. Is the CUDA development kit something I’ll find on the Adobe CS5 disk, the GTX285 disk, or the Snow Leopard disk?
Thanks,
-Matt
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Hey Matt,
No problem. I spent the better part of two days trying to track this answer down as I had the card, the computer, the RAM and CS5 and the hardware just wouldn’t kick in.
To download the CUDA 3.0 drivers you can go here:
https://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_0_downloads.html
Read the “Getting Started Guides” for your OS and you should be able to figure it out. I am on the Mac platform and only downloaded the top two in the mac section which is the “Developer Drivers” and “Toolkit”. After you installed them and boot up Premiere the little Graphic Card lego piece should be filled in and the yellow bar should be there for you.
I hope that helps. Good luck!
– Jonathan
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Thanks for your help Johnathan. I got it working. Much faster, although I’m seeing some glitching with clips set to different blending modes dissolving. One thing I haven’t gotten working though is desktop playback. With the addition of the GTX285 card, I now have room for 4 monitors, I am trying to set one of them (connected to the GTX) as a desktop video playback monitor. In the project settings, I have “Desktop Video Display During Playback” checked, and the appropriate monitor selected as an External device, but I don’t see the video displayed there. Just the desktop. Any advice?
Thanks,
-Matt
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Wow…4 monitors. I am jealous. 🙂
I had the same issue on my HD studio monitor where when I originally had a grey screen where nothing showed up. I had to go into playback settings and change “External Device” to None. I hit ok and closed out the window and then went back into the settings and re-selected the monitor and it came back up just fine.
Right now I am using Premiere only for the Ultra Key as 90% of my work is on a LED lit green screen and Final Cut has a hard time pulling a good key off as it can’t handle the little “halo” you get with LED green screen lighting. The other reason is I am using Motion to create my lower 3rds and when I export them out for Premiere it can’t read the Alpha channel, but that is another thread. 🙂
Hopefully that helps for the monitors and if you not and you just get fed up and you want to get rid of one or two of them, let me know and I will send you my shipping address. 🙂
– Jonathan
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I can’t seem to get desktop video to work on any monitor. I’ve tried turning it on and off switching monitors etc. No avail. Other than that, things are working ok. I’ve ended up just moving the program window up to the monitor I wanted as a desktop preview, and making it large. It could be the large nonstandard resolution of my program. (2048×1536).
Surprised you are having issues with Alpha channels in premier. I haven’t run into that yet. Its doing a surprisingly good job of integrating a whole bunch of different formats some with alphas, and previewing without renders.
As to the 4 monitors, they aren’t very good monitors, scavenged from various places around the office, I just like the added space. Its kind of a Brazil/Scanner Darkly looking setup with a whole bunch of mismatched monitors in different orientations. I have a main apple monitor, a small dell monitor on the right for pallets, an hp monitor on the left in portrait orientation, and an upside down LG monitor lashed to a shelf above my desk.
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Do you by any chance know if this will work with the Nvidia Quadro 600 graphics card? I know its very old and there are better equivalences out there now-a-days but i would like to know if this works so i can increase render time, thanks
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