MAC and Premiere Pro

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MAC and Premiere Pro

Posted by Frank Cervarich on May 9, 2012 at 10:11 pm

I switched from FCS3 to an Adobe Suite that included Premiere Pro late last year after dabbling with the thought of going back to Avid (I bought Media Composer 6 and still have it installed on my system).

In August of 2009, I bought a Mac Pro that now is running OS Lion 10.7.3. Processor 2 X 2.26 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon. Memory 12 GB 1066 MHZ DDR3. Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB.

I have been thinking about buying the Quadra 4000 board for my Mac since it is optimized for Adobe programs. However, with all I am hearing about PC vs. Mac I’m wondering if I should bother. Maybe I should just wait until I’m ready to buy another desktop computer and switch to a PC. Is that what you would suggest?

Also, I have been pleasantly surprised about most of the functions of 5.5 and think most of the improvements I have read about to 6.0 sound positive. However, I must agree that output/export times are horrible compared to FCP. I have been rendering while still editing because playback is so jerky if I do not. It sounds like that might be part of the problem. Would the Quadra 4000 help in any way not just in playback but also output/exporting?

Thanks for any suggestions or advice you might have.

Jim Wiseman replied 13 years, 12 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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Peter Garaway
May 11, 2012 at 4:27 am

Hi Frank,

Below is a link with helpful information on how Premiere Pro utilizes CUDA.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/878522?tstart=0

The benefits using CUDA for output/export (stealing from Todd Kopriva), it’s not the encoding that’s faster; it’s the rendering. Exporting has two major phases:

1) rendering the frames and 2) encoding the rendered frames to an output format.

Premiere Pro uses CUDA to accelerate (1) but not (2).

Hope this is helpful,

Peter Garaway
Adobe, Premiere Pro QE
Frank Cervarich
May 11, 2012 at 3:51 pm

Thanks Peter

The link you provided gave me good, solid information. Looks like I should buy the Quadra 4000 to optimize my system. Down the road, it looks like I should buy a PC rather than Mac when it is time to purchase a new desktop or laptop for editing.

Thanks again.
Jim Wiseman
May 12, 2012 at 1:06 am

Lots of rumors about a new Mac Pro third quarter with NVidia Fermi. I’m sticking with Mac. I’ve been through Windows hell.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe
Tom Daigon
May 12, 2012 at 1:34 am

Bye bye. Im through will Apple hell 😀

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3
Jim Wiseman
May 12, 2012 at 5:19 pm

You ain’t seen nothing yet. But thanks for your help.I’ve been down both roads, and I’m not turning off this one.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

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