Premiere CS6 perfomance lacks behind on MBP

[Gary Huff]

[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.”

Except he has a 512MB GPU, so there’s nothing to be done.

[Gary Huff]

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

How are you enabling the GPU in Premiere when you don’t have a supported GPU? You shouldn’t even have that option to begin with.

[Morten]

When CS6 came out there was no more than 512 Vram available – so obviously Adobe did not feel the need for Mobile Mac users to have a very good experience…

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2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x Prod. bundle CS6, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, Ethernet File Server w. X-Raid…. and FCPX on trial

[Joseph W. bourke]

I do believe it’s the purchaser’s responsibility to read the specs before buying the software…

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[Paul Neumann]

My March 2011 15″ Macbook Pro came with 1gb of RAM. Well before CS6 was released. I put 16 gb of RAM in it and it runs just great.

[Gary Huff]

[Paul Neumann] “My March 2011 15″ Macbook Pro came with 1gb of RAM. Well before CS6 was released. I put 16 gb of RAM in it and it runs just great.”

My March 2011 17″ MacBook Pro also came with 1GB…I knew beforehand that the Mercury Playback Engine required 1GB of RAM on the GPU, so I made sure to purchase the one that had that, even though, at the time, OpenCL was not supported.

You’re probably also referring to the 2010 MacBook Pro with the NVIDIA 320M (I believe it was) that came with 512MB…so even though you may have “beefed up” your MBP, it’s still 3 years old now, and with a dual-core i7 to boot (2011 and up is quad core i7).

[David Lawrence]

[Morten Ranmar] “When CS6 came out there was no more than 512 Vram available – so obviously Adobe did not feel the need for Mobile Mac users to have a very good experience…”

Please see my post above. You don’t need hardware acceleration to cut h264 and have a good experience with Premiere Pro. I’m doing just fine with a late-2008 MacBook Pro. My theory is you’re having trouble with QuickTime.

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[Morten]

My MBP is the late 2011 top model with Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB. This card was not offered with 1Gb VRam, and was at sale at the same time as CS6 came out.

But let go of the technical discussion. My concern is that Premiere will not give me same performance as FCPX on a relatively new machine.

– No Parking Production –

2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x Prod. bundle CS6, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, Ethernet File Server w. X-Raid…. and FCPX on trial

[Timothy Auld]

My late 2008 MBP also does pretty well. No trouble with multiple streams of h.264 or 720 or 1080 prores. Sadly not the same for my early 2008 MacPro.

Tim

[Steve Connor]

[TImothy Auld] “Sadly not the same for my early 2008 MacPro.”

Mine works very nicely with PPro6

Steve Connor

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