Red On Premier CS6

[Boris Yamnitsky]

Peter,

More memory will definitely speed up rendering, especially if you are using a 64 bit version of Premiere (the last two releases). CUDA-capable card will speed up Mercury engine in Premiere. In addition, all GPU-accelerated filters included with RED 5, such as Lens Flare, will benefit from a beefy graphics card of any brand. We recommend latest cards with more on-card memory.

Boris Yamnitsky
BorisFX

[Peter Tours]

Thanks Boris – you have a fine staff under you by the way. So you would recommend RAM for rendering and a card to viewing…of course if I could render fast enough my viewing would be real time. I have 16gb in my 2010 12 core and it’s maxed out when exporting Red fx. How much RAM would you recommend.

Given the performance in PP and my extensive use of Red, I am considering going back to FCP 7 for my next long project.

Thanks again.

Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL

TRI EA5 1974-1977
Convergence ECS1B 1977-1979
Sony BVE 500 1979 – 1984
Datatron Vanguard 1984 – 1993
GVG VPE141 1993 – 1998
Media 100 1995 – 2006
Final Cut Pro 2005 to not too much longer
Adobe Creative Cloud

[Jarle Leirpoll]

You should have at least 2GB RAM per core to avoid “traffic jam” in the processors. 3GB per core is better. Many cores starved for RAM can be slower than fewer cores with enough RAM!

For maximum performance with the built-in, accelerated effects, use an approved card from this list: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

Be aware that accelerated “effects” also include Color Correction, Scaling (also on export), Frame Rate conversion, Field Order conversion, Slo-mo, Pulldown and other under-the-hood stuff. So an approved card will speed up just about any project.

Jarle Leirpoll
PremierePro.net

[Peter Tours]

Given the continuing presence of FCP7, Red and BCC7 on my system it’s likely Premiere is simply too rich for my blood….no that’s not it, I actually resent having to plow around $1200 into a 2010 Mac Pro 12 core w. 16gb ram that cost $8K just to use one piece of software. Red runs delicisouly in FCP and so do I . PP has nice features but not worthy of the investment, IMHO.

That’s not to say I’m not curious as hell to try my machine with all that added firepower just to know what it feels like.

Thanks all!

Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL

TRI EA5 1974-1977
Convergence ECS1B 1977-1979
Sony BVE 500 1979 – 1984
Datatron Vanguard 1984 – 1993
GVG VPE141 1993 – 1998
Media 100 1995 – 2006
Final Cut Pro 2005 to not too much longer
Adobe Creative Cloud