Will Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 work on MacPro 1,1 2006 2.66ghz??

[Greg Jones]

It will install. Runs fairly well. I would suggest the best graphics card you can find such as a 5770 or 5870.

Greg Jones

[David Bankston]

Have this exact machine with 5770 graphics card. CS6 runs better than CS 5.5 for sure. Runs fairly well but not stellar.

[Russ Blaise]

I have the Mac Pro 1,1 (2-2.66GHz) with the 5770 graphics card, plus a raid setup. I did that trick to enable the Mercury Playback Engine for a ATI OpenCL card in PPro CS6. Runs very well. Let’s just say a heck of a lot better than FCP7. The only problem I can see is that the Mac Pro 1,1 users will not be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion. But I bet there will be a hack solution.

[Pete Mulder]

I also have a 2006 Mac Pro but I have upgraded the CPUs to the 5355 quad cores at 2.66 and now have 16 Gb of RAM. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 4870 and dual monitors but I think that this card is the bottle neck for the machine rendering so painfully slow. I saw in your comments above that you said “I did that trick to enable the Mercury Playback Engine for a ATI OpenCL card in PPro CS6…” I still can’t figure how how or if I can do this with the 4870 card that I have on this machine. I would hate to have to buy a new machine as I do not do fulltime video editing and it works great for everything else but when I need to edit it can be like torture to wait on this thing. When I have a few effects on a clip and then try to render it everything can all come to a screetching hault and take virtually forever. Can someone explain to me how this “trick” (as mentioned above for Mercury Playback Engine) works and if it will work with my video card?

Pete

[Russ Blaise]

Hi Pete,

First you need to know if the ATI Radeon HD 4870 has OpenCL. If the card does not, you can turn on the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro CS6. I can’t find the specs for that card so I can’t tell you if it does or not.

So if it does have Open CL. Watch and follow this video:

https://vimeo.com/41799183#

Could you tell me how you upgraded your 2006 Mac Pro’s CPU to the 5355 quad cores? Where did you buy it and what is the cost?

-Russ

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[Pete Mulder]

Hi Russ: Thanks for your reply. I will dig into the specs for this card a little more and let you know what I find. Refarding the CPU upgrade; it was a breeze to do! It works great and there are a series of very thoughtful and well prepared videos at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBivTJ0sitM&feature=relmfu . This man does a great job of explaining all of this and it was well worth the couple of hours it took to perform this upgrade. I had my laptop playing the videos as I worked on the Mac Pro. It was like having a buddy there to help 🙂 I bought the mached set of these processors on Amazon.com for around $140 with a 3MM 9″ hex wrench and some thermal gel for the CPUs. I just wish I could get more play out of my video card.

Pete

[Russ Blaise]

Pete, Let me know what you find out about that card of yours. If it does not have OpenCL, you’ll have to upgrade to the ATI Radeon HD 5770 like I did.

Thanks for the video for the CPU upgrade. I might take a swing at that. Did you pay $140 per processors, or for both?

[Pete Mulder]

Hi Russ: I ran through the video link you provided and applied those changes but I still do not have the Mercury feature (or any other one) in that dropdown box unger the General setting for PremPro. Bummer. I guess that means that this card wont work for this (?) Could I be missing something? I followed it to the letter. Also; Yes, the $140 (or so) was for the pair (maybe a little more $, but in that price range).

Pete

[Greg Jones]

I don’t think the 4870 will work. The minimum would be the 5770. I would suggest looking up MacVidCards online and get a GTX570. If you are still on a MacPro1,1 then you would have to do some things to get your computer to boot into 64bit mode for the GTX570 to work. The 5770 or 5870 would work fine but they are a lot slower with Premiere Pro.

https://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html

Greg Jones

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[Pete Mulder]

Greg; Thanks for this. I had a feeling that the 64 bit thing would come into this eventually. The sad thing is that I just bought this 4870 card a few months ago before I knew any of this. I may have to keep an eye out for 5770 a card. How much better do you think the 5770 card would be compared to my 4870? Do you think that the difference would be significant?

Pete