Premiere Pro CC 2014 and Nvidia card problem

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Harry Bromley-Davenport] “Lion 10.7.5”

CC 2014 is made for 10.8 and newer. It might work, but you’ll have problems.

[Harry Bromley-Davenport] “On advice of Adobe and Nvidia I bought a reconditioned Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT”

I’m not quite sure why Adobe would recommend a really old card that doesn’t even have enough VRAM to work with MPE.

Here’s the system requirements and supported GPUs:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Harry,

As Tero said, the GeForce 8800 GT does not meet the minimum requirements for MPE support. Even added the card to the supported GPU list will not enable GPU rendering.

Although 10.7.5 should still work with Premiere Pro it is not a supported OS. We have found 10.8.5 to be much more stable.

Hope you’re enjoying Premiere!

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thank you very much for the replies. It looks as if I’d better go back to square one. Although the MacPro 2,1 8 core (that’s mine) is non-Mountain Lion compatible, I understand from the denizens of the internet, that there is a workaround.

Please tell me – what is MPE? You both use this term and I don’t know it. But I’m an ancient warrior from Ye Olde Final Cut Pro and can barely remember my own name, much less spell it. So please tell me. VRAM I think I understand.

But now I hit a problem. Even if I can manage to install Mountain Lion, I will still have the same Mac hardware – so I’m now not convinced, based on what you gentlemen say, that I will be able to find an Nvidia CUDA card which will work in my computer anyway, regardless of Mac OSX 8+.

What do you think? I’d greatly appreciate your opinions. I simply cannot rush out and buy a new computer. I make a living doing this and am just putting my toe in the water with PP as a test.

So, assuming that I can get Mountain Lion running on my steam powered Mac (which people have actually done), am I still not stuck in the mud due to the lack of CUDA cards?

I truly appreciate the time you have taken to reply. A final word of advice from both of you would be welcome. I pay careful attention to what other users say and am always aware that their time is a gift.

Best wishes,

Harry.

PS. By the way, PP is surprisingly stable on my setup – I just want added speed in rendering and whatnot. Perhaps I should be thinking in terms of learning PP under these compromised conditions before I mess around with thoughts of CUDA, Mountain Lion, New computer etc.

Again, thanks, Harry The Idiot.

[Alex Udell]

Hi…

MPE = Mercury Playback Engine (which is I assume why you want to add the graphics hardware in the first place).

VRAM = Video RAM, the memory on board the NVIDIA (or any) gfx card. In order for MPE to be able to process images and streams, it needs space on board the card to hold that data while processing.

You may want to look at ATI alternatives that are compatible with your current OS. NVIDIA has developed a language technology called CUDA and ATI uses similar technology called OPEN CL. PPro’s Mercury Playback Engine supports both of these to different extents to enhance editing performance.

Also know that MPE is not required to run PPro. You can run in software mode and still reap the benefits of native format support (editing without converting first). MPE really enhances what can be done to multiple streams in real time for certain FX and can help with export in some cases.

Ppro also loves RAM. So adding that certainly can’t hurt.

I can’t answer the OS version specific concerns so I’ll leave that to others.

Good luck!

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Kevin Monahan]

The problem is also OS X 10.7.5. You’re not going to get the expected performance and behavior of a system running OS X 10.8, or later. Sorry about that…

Here’s the article I wrote: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/os-x-107-supported.html

Kevin

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[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thank you very much for the informative reply. That explains a whole bunch of stuff I didn’t know and I appreciate your taking the time to explain it.

Best, Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my question. Clearly I will be running around in circles until I install, minimally, Mountain Lion. And this nVidia card just isn’t going to work either.

I appreciate your help.

Best,

Harry.