Tommy Damani
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Just to confirm to everyone reading this in the future. Do not listen to anyone above. I’m now giving you REAL and ACTUAL experience instead of rubbish that people claim to know.
The new 5k iMac DOES NOT allow Premiere Pro to use the GPU for rendering. (Or vice versa, who cares?) Even installing CUDA did not activate the GPU, even adding the card name to the list of cards in GPUSniffer DID NOT activate the GPU. Rendering now takes 4 times as long as it did on my 2011 machine with the GPU activated. Whats the freaking point in getting a 2g graphics card if you can’t even utilise it?
When i opened up a project (first created in my 2011 iMac with GPU activated) in the new 5k iMac a pop up said:
MISSING RENDERER:
This project was last used with Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL), which is not available on this system. Mercury Playback Engine Software Only will be used.I’m now returning this unit to Apple and getting a full refund and then sticking with my 2011 unit.
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In the “2011 i7, 3.4, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2gb” iMac i have now, the GPU was greyed out in PP until i installed CUDA. So you saying the new iMac’s will give me the option to use the graphics GPU in PP without the need of installing CUDA?
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OK thanks for the reply Andrew. So do i need to manually install or activate the GPU in this new iMac machine?
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Happy to wait mate thanks so much. I’ve had the iMac in my online cart for a few days haha i’m happy to wait for you no probs. Apple store didn’t have i7 on display let alone any adobe products installed on their displayed i5s
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Al thanks for the reply. I need to know something, does PP and AE actually use the 4g hardware or is it software and CPU?
I ask this specifically because in the 2011 mac i have now with the 2gb graphics card, i had to install a “Cuda” app to unlock the actual 2g graphics card because apple retardedly defaults to CPU not GPU. I installed cuda so that when i render, it actually used the GPU hardware instead of the software.
This is how you check:
Premiere Pro:
Project > Project setting > General > In the general tab > under video render and playback > you should have the option to use “software” or “hardware”After effects:
Preferences > Previews > Under “fast previews” click GPU information > See if you can select “GPU”Hopefully these images will display:
https://tommydamani.com/outboundimages/AEGPU.png
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Look like the media didn’t conform properly. Try closing down PP, going into user> library> application support> Adobe> Common> Media cache files> and delete all of them.
Then restart your project files and it will start conforming them again.