Premiere CS6 perfomance lacks behind on MBP

[Derek Andonian]

Well, of course I can’t say for sure, but I can’t Imagine Adobe would let an entire upgrade cycle go by WITHOUT improving on the Mercury Engine… 🙂

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[Andy Field]

can’t say i’ve had that experience – works fine on a 2 year old MacBook Pro – and it ROCKS on my MBP Retina…..but then everything rocks on that machine – even FCP7

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Joseph W. bourke]

You’re also aware that FCP dumbs down the preview rez?

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Bill Davis]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “You’re also aware that FCP dumbs down the preview rez?”

Not sure if you’re talking about X, but if so, then I think that’s a pretty big oversimplification.

X uses what I’ve come to think of as a “tier’d” preview strategy.

On import, it creates and uses quick thumbnails in order to get you working fast. Then as the engine crunches them into higher rez versions it substitutes those dynamically throughout the interface. So you can be working with low rez thumbnails one second, then suddently, you’re working with higher rez proxys or even your full size files.

The metadata construction means everything is just a pointer to a fundamental asset, so switching pointers is simple and seamless for the software to accomplish behind the scenes.

So yeah, it “dumbs down the preview rez” for as long as your computer needs that to let you be productive, fast – but the software is also smart enough to know when it has a better source available and can link to that for higher quality screen representations automatically.

FWIW.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Bret Williams]

We’re talking about native playback of h264 aren’t we? Not thumbnails. X only plays back a lesser version if it is set to better performance.

[David Cherniack]

Just out of curiosity are you running Premiere with GPU acceleration set to ‘on’ – I would guess it’s OpenCL as it’s a MacBook with an ATI card, correct?

David
https://AllinOneFilms.com

[Paul Jay]

Add your 1gb or more videocard to the supported gpu list for mercury playback.
This also will be a feature in next version.

[Morten]

Enabling GPU in Premiere does not make any difference (CS6.02). I have the beefed up MBP with maximum 512 Mb VideoRam.

Sorry to say, I am not impressed with Premiere Pro. If the application cannot playback a simple stream of H264 on a powerful machine, I would suggest it is not optimized properly for Mac.

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[David Lawrence]

[Morten Ranmar] “Sorry to say, I am not impressed with Premiere Pro. If the application cannot playback a simple stream of H264 on a powerful machine, I would suggest it is not optimized properly for Mac.”

Hmmm, something must be off with your set-up. I’m able to play 4K RED at 1/16 resolution on a late 2008 Macbook Pro without breaking a sweat. H264 cuts like butter.

One thought –

Are your h264 files wrapped as QuickTime .mov files? If so, try importing the raw h264 streams.

I recently ran into difficulty with some AVCHD footage from a Panasonic HMC40. Mountain Lion wants to wrap them in QuickTime during import. These AVCHD QuickTime .mov files were unplayable in Premiere. They’d drop frames, and freeze.

So I tried importing the raw AVCHD streams directly from a clone of the card. Premiere had no trouble with the raw streams at all. They play perfectly smooth.

If your files are wrapped in QuickTime, that could be what’s messing you up.

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[David Cherniack]

[Morten Ranmar] “Enabling GPU in Premiere does not make any difference (CS6.02). I have the beefed up MBP with maximum 512 Mb VideoRam.

Sorry to say, I am not impressed with Premiere Pro. If the application cannot playback a simple stream of H264 on a powerful machine, I would suggest it is not optimized properly for Mac.”

Well, sorry to say your “powerful machine” does not have the required amount of video ram to run with GPU acceleration. The specs for PrPro are 1GB – you have 512MB. You may want to always first check the operator before placing blame elsewhere.

David
https://AllinOneFilms.com