Premiere Pro CS6 Preview Render driving me nuts

[Al Bergstein]

Which version of Vegas are you using? 11 and 12 can actually use the CUDA, for better and worse. If it’s an older version, it didn’t use CUDA but used that memory of yours to render. That might be why it works better, but I have no idea if Parallels has some oddities with it’s use of the non CUDA card on the Mac. So it seems you are saying you are using both a Windows version of Premiere 6 and Vegas under Parallels on the Mac? Personally, I wouldn’t expect the best performance from the graphics on that setup. there’s always overhead going from the underlying OS to the hosted one. It’s not a recipe for best performance, just a recipe for being able to occasionally run Windows apps on a Mac. Virtualization is usually better reserved for low performance apps. We are running apps like Vegas and Pr that should be running natively on the computer they are on. You might get by with simple clips working as you claim, but it seems when the clip gets complex, the engine is stalling. I nest routinely using multi clip, but don’t have performance problems.

If you have to stay on the Mac, then get Adobe to switch out your version and reload it as a Mac version of the app. But remember, you still don’t have a CUDA based card, so your rendering will not be optimized. But running natively it might run better because Adobe *might* be able to manage the graphics better with the engine running with your 16GBs directly. See if you can prove that first if some of your coworkers have the same setup with Pr on Apple.

I also have Pr running on a “backup” machine, a 13″ mac book Pro i7 8GBs RAM with no CUDA. Performance sucks. It’s only for field use and then I don’t expect it to be anything but sluggish in the renders. And that’s running natively!

Al

[David Tunnell]

Vegas 9 64 bit also on Parallells. It works fine, but doesn’t have some of the functionality of Preimiere Pro.

I can’t change out to the to the Mac version. You can legally install on two machines with one license if you don’t use them at the same time. But, both versions must be of the same operating system, I need the main workstation Win7 more, so I had to get the Win version, hence my problem. They won’t but me two versions.

Thanks,

David Tunnell
TunnellVision Productions

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

As Tom asked:

Is the sequence settings the same as your source footage? Otherwise, Adobe will have to render every time there’s a change. The only way this can be ‘hidden’ is with a good GPU.

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