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Mercury playback engine not enabling
Hi Everyone,
I’m trying to figure out whether or not mercury playback engine is enabled. Export/rendering times are still very long, even though my stats are great.
Here are my stats:
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
MOBO: ASRock 870 Extreme3
RAM: 8GB
PCI: nVidia GTX 470 (In approved list for Mercury Playback Engine)When I go into my project settings, “Video Rendering and Playback” is grayed out, with “Mercury Playback Engine Software Only” grayed out, selected.
In my Preferences, “Memory” is set to “Performance” but I’ve also tried setting it to “Memory”.
I’m working with AVCHD files (in .mts format), coming from a Panasonic HDC-HS700.
I just tried exporting a 6 minute video, with 0 effects besides cutting it, and the estimated time was about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
I read in another post that said:
“For example, i have a 6 minutes and 40 seconds long 720p50 AVCHD Timeline with Three Way CC on all clips. With GPU Accelleration enabled that Timeline renders out to MPEG2-DVD highest quality in only 1 minute and 36 seconds. (I see slightly longer render times with interlaced 1920×1080 AVCHD, but way faster than software render alone.)”
So I’m convinced that it’s not enabled and I’m not sure what my next step is to get it enabled.
I’ve downloaded the latest drivers for my nVidia card, and I also downloaded the latest CUDA toolkit from their website (installed both) – and of course tried restarting my computer…
Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
– Jennifer
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9 Replies
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Well…when you quote someone else’s encode times, you need to compare your systems. If you don’t know what that person’s system was, you have no way of knowing if the time you see is corect or not.
The CUDA enabled system gains speed over a non-CUDA enabled system when there are effects involved. That’s where CUDA picks up the slack. The decode and encode process of playing and transcoding footage is all CPU.
The person you quoted may have a 3 quad-core, multithreading processor Intel bit-crushing monster with 16 GB of RAM and you have a single proc quad core with 4 GB of RAM, I don’t know…
The point is that the CUDA card will help when there are effects…it takes those off the CPU so the CPU can dedicate itself to the decode/encode process. The configuration and technological advancement of the CPU in a machine is where the encode speeds are gained or lost.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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The GTX470 is only supported from the 5,0,2 update,
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So what does that mean? What should I do?
Thanks
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Run the updates. Help>updates
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Ran the update and on the SAME exact project/file with SAME settings, it took it down from over an hour and a half to 11 minutes!
THANK YOU!
I LOVE YOU!
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Great to hear. Sometimes it’s a small oversight that needs correcting.
That time difference is pretty huge. Can you post your system and project specs so others can compare in building a similar machine.
Cheers. Jon
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Definitely:
System specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
MOBO: ASRock 870 Extreme3
GPU: nVidia GTX 470
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600(PC3 12800) (Brand: G.Skill RipJaws)The MOBO has an Overclock option when booting, which I current have on…
Project Specs:
Original files are AVCHD (.mts), 1080/60p, shot with a Panasonic HDC-HS700. They’re huge files and I believe the bitrate records at 25 or 26.
I used “Desktop” when creating the project (I think this is Sequence settings), setting the frames to 1920/1080 and the frame rate to 60fps (although Adobe says the clips are 59.94). Have Maximum Render and Maximum Bit Depth checked. Memory is set to “Performance” under Edit > Preferences > Memory
No effects on the clips, just a ton of cutting different ones.
Exporting:
Format: H.264
Preset: Custom (I had to select an HD preset first to edit the dimensions, etc)Frame Width: Changed to 960×540
Frame Rate: 60
Field Order: None (Progressive)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels(Under Bitrate Settings)
Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 2 Pass
Target: 20
Max: 25Use maximum render quality is checked.
Everything else not mentioned I left at default.
Hope that helps someone 😀
Thanks again, Jon
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I forgot to add that the clip length is 5:45
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One last thing I’d like to point out is that when exporting directly in Adobe, it’s under 13 minutes. If I select “Queue” and export the file in Adobe Media Encoder CS5, then it goes back to 1 hour+ – kind of a shame, but oh well!
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