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PrPro CS5.5 RT performance
I’ve just switched from FC7. I’m running PrPro on a recent MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 (quad) with 8GB ram and a Thunderbolt Raid storage.
The real time performance is not quite as good as promised but still pretty good.
I have an HDV clip of a man on a green screen with footage in the background and it will play in real time. If I add a blur filter to the
background clip it doesn’t quite keep up and is jerky.
If I add a curve filter to the green screen clip it bogs down more.
I tried an h.264 clip (via new sequence)from my D700 dslr and it will run real time after 5 seconds when it catches up but not with fx or a title.
Does this performance sound reasonable from a MacBook?
I should have gotten a tower instead.Alan Stephens
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I would take the playback resolution to 50% and see if you get improved performance. Right click on your Program monitor and choose something lower from shortcut menu.
MacBook Pros do not come with a NVIDIA video card capable of providing better performance with CUDA enabled effects, unfortunately. You have the ATI card, likely.
To make a feature request to support enhanced performance with the MacBook Pro and the Mercury Playback Engine, make a request: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
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dropping the playback res to 1/2 eliminates the jerkyness.
1/2 res on the h.264 still chokes at the beginning and then gets up to speed. My Graphics display is: AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
I thought that would be pretty good.
The nvidias are more robust?Thx
Alan Stephens
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ATI cards do not support CUDA so you can’t use the Mercury Playback Engine on Premiere.
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I did not know that when I bought the Mac Book or I would have bought a
tower for sure. Does this also apply to FCX? I tried their demo and
was dissapointed in the performance as well as the lack of pro features I was used to in FC7.
I’ve heard that Apple will be discontinuing the Mac Pro towers. That’s one reason they don’t have Thunderbolt.Alan Stephens
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I have the same set up as you and coming from a HP workstation with 32 gig of ram and a CUDA card it really is a different experience. That being said it’s still pretty good. Much better than any 32-bit experience for sure. I think Dynamic Link works much better on Mac as well. Just smoother. Just for grins throw one of your clips into Media Encoder and output a HIGH bitrate 720p version of it and watch how that is handled. I think you’ll be pleased.
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yes media encoder zips along at double or better than real time.
Alan Stephens
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I meant editing at 720p as opposed to 1080p.
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ATI cards do not support CUDA so you can’t use the Mercury Playback Engine on Premiere.
Not exactly true. CUDA acceleration is but one component of the Mercury Playback Engine. It’s mainly about accessing all cores and RAM in your system. You are still getting much better performance than, say, FCP7 or Premiere Pro CS4 on the Mac. A certified NVIDIA card would, indeed, accelerate that performance. And Media Encoder will fly too, based on that.
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I did not know that when I bought the Mac Book or I would have bought a
tower for sure.Yes, you could install an NVIDIA card in a MacPro. Many use the Quadro 4000 with stunning results.
Does this also apply to FCX?
No, your ATI card is OpenCL, rather than CUDA based, and FCPX is optimized for that card.
I tried their demo and was dissapointed in the performance as well as the lack of pro features I was used to in FC7.
Welcome to Premiere Pro!
No NVIDIA card? Edit at half res on Mac, many of us do.
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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