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John Vargo
October 26, 2017 at 5:44 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

A quick Google search looks like there are not Thunderbolt add-on cards for Mac, so your best bet would be PCIe. Sonnett has a number of PCIe cards available that should work with your computer:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/computercards/index.html

Then you could get yourself a nice PCIe RAID set. This one includes the card:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondx800raid.html
John Vargo
October 24, 2017 at 7:08 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

If your computer runs slow running multiple streams at once, as with multicam sequences, its likely a bottleneck in disk IO. You really need a fast interface and fast drives to stream that much data. If you haven’t already, you may want to consider an external RAID disk connected to a high speed thunderbolt add-on card. I believe Sonnett has a eSATA card that you might be interested in. I’m not sure if you are bus-limited with a computer of that vintage, but the card gets you up to a theoretical 6GB/s.

Or, if you haven’t already, get yourself into a workflow using proxies.
John Vargo
March 19, 2015 at 10:43 am in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

I have been a Mac user for a long time, and I will say this: Yosemite is very uncharacteristic for Apple. Most OS upgrades have been relatively solid. Yosemite is the first time I’ve been really disappointed with Apple.

No matter, I rolled my iMac back to Mavericks and its as fast and reliable as it always has been.

Next I need to find the time to roll back my Macbook Pro.
John Vargo
March 6, 2015 at 2:50 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

Well it was going swimmingly, then this happened with only the built-in display.

So, at least we know it happens with or without an external display connected.

I also tried disconnecting my TB RAID drive and USB backup drive to no avail.
John Vargo
March 5, 2015 at 8:40 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

That would be great, thank you.
John Vargo
March 5, 2015 at 8:34 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

I totally agree, but maybe it will help Adobe/Apple/NVIDIA with the troubleshooting.
John Vargo
March 5, 2015 at 8:14 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

I was able to get through a full edit yesterday with no corruption by disconnecting my external displays and using rMBP built-in display.

Anyone else have any success doing this?
John Vargo
February 25, 2015 at 9:58 pm in reply to: NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

IN response to Ze’ev, it happens to me whenever I work the GPU hard, mostly during rendering.

rMPB 15 2.5 GHz i7/16GB RAM/GT 750M 2048 MB
John Vargo
February 25, 2015 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Is anyone with 15″ MbPro w/ discrete GFX NOT getting the Cuda issues?

Thought I would chime in, same issue here. Very frustrating.

Yosemite 10.10.2
rMBP Mid-2014 2.5 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, GT750M 2048 MB
CUDA 6.5.45
I am using 2 external displays

Seems to happen only when I’ve been working the GPU hard.
John Vargo
October 22, 2014 at 8:21 pm in reply to: will the iMac 5K Retina’s AMD Radeon graphics card be a problem for Premiere Pro CC and AE???

I’ve done some research on this topic.

What’s being said above is mostly true. The Mercury Playback Engine can use Cuda (NVIDIA) or OpenCL (AMD) for hardware acceleration.

However, the card in the 5K iMac is NOT on the supported list of cards. I know a bit about this because the card in my 21.5″ iMac was dropped from the supported card list with CC.

Since the card is not on the supported list, you will not be able to use hardware acceleration. Premiere checks your video card model against a text file when you start the application. When you create a new project, the hardware acceleration option is greyed out.

My guess is a new product with this kind of popularity will quickly make its way into the supported cards list, but you’ll have to wait until Adobe pushes a software update to enable hardware acceleration. Until then, it should still perform fairly well using software (I edit everyday like this), and when the hardware acceleration comes it will be even faster.

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