[Erik Mickelson]

Chris, you are on a MacPro? iMac?

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

I read the link. I have been reading the link since last year. I read it again and it has not changed one bit.

Tom, you must have missed the thread on how/what I am testing.
I am using ONLY Cuda accelerated effects, 3-way CC, Ultra Keyer and Crop on a single layer of footage(I was using a BG layer but thought that it might be skewing the results).

So…I gave Premiere Pro CS6 1 .MTS layer to do a crop, Ultra key and 3 way CC. It is choking on a raid 0. I get the same or worse speed when Open CL is turned on.

Tom, can you do the same test as I am and report back your results?

My results are based on Production Premium LS7 on a MacBook “almost” Pro with 16GB ram and a Raid 0.

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[Erik Mickelson]

Well, I installed the LS7 version of Production Premium. There is literally NO speed gained from using Open CL on this version. I tested with MPE Software and Hardware enabled and the results are the same or slightly worse for Open CL. This has to be a mistake from Adobe.

I also tested Prelude to try and spot the 60 or so MTS clips I receive daily for this new project I am working on. There does not seem to be a way of adding comments/metadata to the clips, no markers are allowed either. So what good is the program? I will not be using Prelude if it does not do these things. Is it the MTS files? No metadata allowed on MTS?

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[Erik Mickelson]

Yep, same here. Lhe is dead to me now. That kind of sucks because the hardware is still perfectly good. AJA is just obsoleting a piece of perfectly good and capable hardware. They could easily update the driver with a few lines of code. “If CS6 then = yes”, easy!

AJA are the new Matrox, just run away and go Black Magic.

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[Erik Mickelson]

I am using release LS16. I have been alerted that most users have release LS7. I will try LS7 and report. Hopefully that will improve things.

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[Erik Mickelson]

What is better LS7 or LS16? I am using LS16 and the results are not that impressive. The new stuff is cool and usable but performance on a Macbook Pro is not where marketing leads us to think it should be.

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[Erik Mickelson]

I was using Ultra for the PPro CS6 testing, not so great. So I decided to test round tripping with AE CS6 and use Keylight. Keylight works better but playback does not work when round tripping. Even after rendering the timeline there are still dropped frames 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 does not matter = dropped frames.

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[Erik Mickelson]

That is my point. Snow Leopard was/is faster than Lion. Lion is the ONLY way to get Open Cl acceleration in PPro CS6 and I actually find it slower and less robust with this pre release of CS6.

I did use Ultra Keyer in PPro and it did NOT play back nicely at Full, and at 1/2 still dropped frames on a single video stream. I can work with it but this is no revolutionary software release, at least for MacBook “almost” Pro’s. There is nothing that will convince me otherwise, I am testing and the results are not that impressive, workable but not impressive.

I will probably just break down and get a PeeCee in a month or so. I believe Adobe will do a cross platform upgrade for nothing.

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[Erik Mickelson]

Yup, that’s why I Scaled a clip, used 3-way CC and Ultra key. Those are all Cuda accelerated effects. Nothing to see here. All of this may change with the official release. I get basically the same performance or better using the same effects in CS5 (in reality I use BCC keyer, BCC choke and BCC light wrap instead).

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[Erik Mickelson]

It’s not a bad experience Tom. The experience is the same as before, I can edit without having to transcode. Great.

I see no hardware boost from the MacBook side of things. If anything it is slower. Is that Apple Lion? Is that Adobe? I am betting it is Apple Lion at fault. It is a stop gap OS for Mountain Lion. The future will reveal all, because neither one of these companies will answer anyone’s direct questions.

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