[Mike Weiner]

I don’t want to encourage you to spend money, especially if I’m wrong. But, CUDA is FAST. Going HD to SD is still slow, but that’s only to be expected…it is still faster than if you didn’t have the CUDA or Matrox cards. I will say that I have been using CUDA and it is FAST. BUT, Compressor doesn’t support CUDA and that’s why I mostly use Premiere/Adobe Media Encoder or Sorrenson Squeeze…because it is so much faster…though I’d rather use FCP…or even Avid. FCP and Avid don’t utilize CUDA, hopefully future versions will. That being said, I don’t know if that fake FCP X software allows for CUDA integration. And, I don’t know if I used the MAX compression setting, as this was about 8 months ago that I was testing.

So I wanted to warn you about FCP/CUDA before you go and spend money…

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/513

FCP X it seems is supposed to utilize something similar with Lion…but who really wants to use FCP X?!?!

[Mike Weiner]

here’s what I did:

I took Sorrenson Squeeze 7. I took a QuickTime file (I believe it was) and I compressed with the CUDA card to H.264 MP4 using the GFX card. Then, I took the same file, and used Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and the CUDA card. I also used the same file, through it into Premiere Pro CS5 and through Media Encoder. Then, I took Compressor, which doesn’t have a CUDA card but I used the Matrox card/settings and used that same file. I exported to the same file/settings. Premiere/Media Encoder was the fastest, followed by straight Media Encoder, followed by Squeeze, and finally by Compressor last.

I was using the CompressHD H.264 Matrox card I got a year earlier.

Granted, CUDA wasn’t much faster, but it still seemed to be faster. Now I was using something like a 2 minute file, but if you take that data and spread it out to an hour program, etc., it could make a difference.

That was what I found using a 12-core Mac Pro 5,1. It seemed like there was no real advantage to having it in my computer, so I needed the slot anyway so I took out the card. Plus, I found the computer really heating up, and getting in the way of some of the cables on my GFX card.

[Mike Weiner]

I do a lot of these and I have a Matrox card, but I’m using CUDA gfx card so it is even faster than the Matrox card.

[Mike Weiner]

a/k/a it has to be converted with the burn-in

[Mike Weiner]

OK, but the transcription company uses their own software, so I can’t just throw it into a player…it HAS to be a window burn-in

[Mike Weiner]

sweet! thanks! I thought I had used it before and the program just created mxfs or pulled the mxfs off of the disc and onto your local or whatever drive you choose. I knew the TC was on the proxy, just unsure how to get it off, as I typically use Premiere to lay TC onto the full rez clips (since without a plug-in it won’t take proxies) because unlike FCP and Avid, Premiere CS5 really uses the CUDA gfx card to the full advantage (i.e. — I don’t need to render TC on, it just appears).

The problem is I can’t just click TC on in QT because I need to send these files out to a transcription company and they need burn-ins for the software they use as wmv, mov, or mp4.

huge help thanks so much!

I suppose you wouldn’t know how to replicate this process/a similar process on a PC also?

-mike

[Mike Weiner]

actually someone there told me it was ok to install with fcp but served no purpose…my fcp seems ok, short of playing mp4 files screwy. but i don’t think that was a result of XD Decode.

I’ll uninstall it once done with this large group of files

Thanks!

[Mike Weiner]

I have 3 harddrives in my computer:

1) The System Drive
2) What we’ll call Drive 1 (95% full or so) – don’t use currently
3) What we’ll call Drive 2

Right now, assuming I pulled up the right information, the media cache files do not save with the originals, but instead save to Drive 2. That is also where the media cache database exists. Drive 2 is also the scratch disk for everything. The project auto-saves every 5 minutes, up to 100 versions. These occur on Drive 2.

Prior to about 1 week ago, maybe a little less, all the media cache and media cache database were moved from the System Drive to Drive 2.

Did that answer what you were asking?

[Mike Weiner]

I think it is Premiere because when I am only running Premiere Pro and I see it saying that the audio is conforming, building peaks, etc., I watch the hard drive space go down. Restart doesn’t fix.

I’ve seen 40GB go before give-or-take.

Please keep in mind I’m not talking about when I digitize either.

[Mike Weiner]

I normally show all files/folders and I looked there and found 53 mb…so I’m not 100% sure where it all went. Nothing in My Documents/Documents (Windows 7)