Mac CS6 no Cuda / Open CL on supported laptop

[Chris Borjis]

[Tom Daigon] “I haven’t come across a lot of folks experiencing the same or less performance than 5.5”

Indeed, I’m getting much improved playback performance (no random stopping as in cs 5.5 with multiple rendered layers) and render speed with CS 6.

though I’m on Snow Leopard.

really looking forward to release day.

[Erik Mickelson]

That is my point. Snow Leopard was/is faster than Lion. Lion is the ONLY way to get Open Cl acceleration in PPro CS6 and I actually find it slower and less robust with this pre release of CS6.

I did use Ultra Keyer in PPro and it did NOT play back nicely at Full, and at 1/2 still dropped frames on a single video stream. I can work with it but this is no revolutionary software release, at least for MacBook “almost” Pro’s. There is nothing that will convince me otherwise, I am testing and the results are not that impressive, workable but not impressive.

I will probably just break down and get a PeeCee in a month or so. I believe Adobe will do a cross platform upgrade for nothing.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

I was using Ultra for the PPro CS6 testing, not so great. So I decided to test round tripping with AE CS6 and use Keylight. Keylight works better but playback does not work when round tripping. Even after rendering the timeline there are still dropped frames 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 does not matter = dropped frames.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

I am using release LS16. I have been alerted that most users have release LS7. I will try LS7 and report. Hopefully that will improve things.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Chris Borjis]

I totally understand your point about Lion.
I Just upgraded to snow leopard myself for cs 5.5 and have
no intention of running Lion until I have to (CS 6.5 or 7 perhaps)

But you are running it on a macbook and not a mac tower with a quadro 4000
or equivalent workstation level system. It runs great for those of us on
that hardware.

I’m not saying this to create an argument, just noting cs 6 runs VERY well
on that particular hardware.

It’s quite possible the newness of the OpenCL use with CS 6 needs some further refining.
Kinda makes sense when you consider only 2 non Nvidia chipset gpu’s are supported.

[David Mcgavran]

Hold tight until we release. I will come back here and on the ppro blog to talk opencl

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Patience is a virtue! We haven’t released CS6 yet…

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Tom it makes a bit more of a difference than that…

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[Tom Daigon]

Dave-“Tom it makes a bit more of a difference than that…”

Dave, Im not sure what you are referring to. But if its regarding my response to the question about what CUDA graphics cards do, my info was gotten from this Adobe page.

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

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

[Erik Mickelson]

Well, I installed the LS7 version of Production Premium. There is literally NO speed gained from using Open CL on this version. I tested with MPE Software and Hardware enabled and the results are the same or slightly worse for Open CL. This has to be a mistake from Adobe.

I also tested Prelude to try and spot the 60 or so MTS clips I receive daily for this new project I am working on. There does not seem to be a way of adding comments/metadata to the clips, no markers are allowed either. So what good is the program? I will not be using Prelude if it does not do these things. Is it the MTS files? No metadata allowed on MTS?

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7