Mac Mini vs iMac 2014 for Premiere & AE?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Matt Campbell] “I’m hoping to get the Cuda working with AE CS6 as well. My current hack only gets me Premiere acceleration and not AE for some reason. I want to pay with ray tracing!”

Adobe CC supports Open GL as well. I was in the AMD Booth at NAB watching beautiful 6k playback off a Dell workstation via one of the new AMD cards running Open GL. CUDA is not essential for the Adobe suite any longer.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Shane Ross]

If you have ATI cards…make sure to DISABLE CUDA! Otherwise issues arise.

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[Chris Borjis]

I think Walter B. meant Open CL

[Peter Garaway]

[Shane Ross] “If you have ATI cards…make sure to DISABLE CUDA! Otherwise issues arise.”

Thanks for making mention of that Shane. Just to let you know we plan to have this resolved soon.

Peter Garaway
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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks everyone for the input. We just ordered (2) refurbed i7 iMacs. I wanted to new, but they wanted to save a few bucks, bummer. Downside is we didn’t get the SSD, which we’ll upgrade later if possible, fingers crossed, nor the 780m GFX card. So we’ll have to see how the 775m performs.

That being said, we are getting two TB, 2 slot PCIe chassis’s for our eSata cards (external storage) & BMD cards. Do even get me started as I pushed for TB storage and TB I/O, but no go. Shane I believe you mentioned about possibly tossing in a better GFX card to a PCIe TB chassis. How will that work with having 2 GFX cards? Does the machine recognize it and will be able to utilize it properly. Or did I misunderstand you. I’m not saying we’ll do this, but if the NVIDIA 775m lacks in horsepower, and its possible, it’d be nice to know this is an option for the future.

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