How to make Premiere CS5 work with GTX 295 and possibly all 200 GPUs

[Uwe Hansen]

Originally Posted by Charles W. Hull

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--Edit. The photo-jpeg files will be much bigger than H.264 files so the disk read requirement is quite a bit higher, and goes up proportionally with layers. You might check your disk read speed.

Yes you´re right, but isn´t the file size of Cineform HD bigger than Photo-Jpeg? So, if Cineform runs smootly on your machine it would have to be the same with Foto-Jpeg. Do you have a RAID0 on your system? Maybe that makes the difference? At the moment this behavior is pretty much of a "mystery" to me and I haven´t a clue what is causing it. I just gave DNxHD a shot - but the same story => after I added a second layer it began to stutter.

With CS4 I had to convert the H264 files to a codec that is faster, better editable and has a better quality - I used Photo-Jpeg for that. Now it seems to me that I have to make a choice between => speediness (h264) vs quality - simply to go a bit over the top. Could that really be the case?

[Jose Martins]

Ok, this is all exciting and cool, BUT, if its so easy as this, and it is really easy cuz I've done it, why isn't Nvidia making it generally available? Are we not risking our gear? Could we be risking more than just the Graphics card, perhaps the Motherboard or other vital components?

[Rowby Goren]

Originally Posted by Bo Skelmose

Finally got my GTX 470 and today my CS5. Trying to make it work I try to change cuda_supported_cards.txt but when I try to save it I do not have the permission. I am logged in as an administrator and I have tried to unclick the write protection in the premiere folder and on the file - but no luck - HELP

The trick is to RIGHT CLICK on the Notpad icon. You will see the option to run (notepad) as Administrator. Once you open Notepad then browse to the file you want to modify.

BTW Notepad is fine for simple programming edits, but the free Crimson Editor is great for more extensive editing. Rowby

[Ozan Biron]

SOoo whats the best way to go... GTX 285 or GTX 470?

i noticed there is a GTX 295 would that be better?

Q9550 overlcocked
raid 0 setup
8 gigs ram
windows 7 - 64bits
graphic card - pending....

[Steve Oakley]

get the 470.....

they haven't done anything with MPE to take advantage of multiple GPU's.... yet.

[Ozan Biron]

Originally Posted by Steve Oakley

get the 470.....

they haven't done anything with MPE to take advantage of multiple GPU's.... yet.

did the 470 get approved yet from adobe? Or the card is still to new?

[Brant Gajda]

Originally Posted by Ozan Biron

did the 470 get approved yet from adobe? Or the card is still to new?

Officially it isn't supported, but if you use the hack it works just fine.

[Cody Dulock]

For those of you saying it's running smoothly, what's your playback resolution? 1/4, 1/2, or full? Could someone confirm that it plays back smooth at Full resolution?

[Paul Curtis]

Has anyone tried the GTX 465 card? On paper is seems pretty cost effective, 352 stream processors (compared to 240 in the 285) but i'm also conscious that other factors come into play. The 285 is a single gpu and some others cards are two put together which aren't taken full advantage of.

Is there a good place to find detailed specs? And the which specs matter? The nvidia site seems pretty light on details.

thanks
paul

[Brant Gajda]

Originally Posted by Paul Curtis

Has anyone tried the GTX 465 card? On paper is seems pretty cost effective, 352 stream processors (compared to 240 in the 285) but i'm also conscious that other factors come into play. The 285 is a single gpu and some others cards are two put together which aren't taken full advantage of.

Is there a good place to find detailed specs? And the which specs matter? The nvidia site seems pretty light on details.

thanks
paul

Should be CUDA enabled. Just use the hack.

[Paul Curtis]

Originally Posted by Brant Gajda

Should be CUDA enabled. Just use the hack.

I know that but on paper it seems better (and cheaper) than a 285 GTX but there could be a catch

- speeds of the clock are different to the 285
- memory is DDR5 compared to 3 (faster) but the bandwidth is 256bits compared to 512 for the 285 (slower)

So i'm trying to learn more about what makes for a good card for use with PPro.

I know that the 295 on paper is better but it's done by using two lesser GPUs and PPro doesn't take advantage of both, so actually it's worse.

cheers
paul

[Brant Gajda]

Probably going to be hard to know unless someone has/had both a 285 and 465. I doubt you will actually notice much difference. If Adobe gets around to supporting multiple GPUs, then thats a whole different game.

[Lars Siden]

I'm really depressed/upset by the power requirements for the Geforce Fermi series of cards! 400w at full speed - Ouch!

Since my NLE machine and my develop and games box is the same computer, I guess I'll have to get the 480 card - for maximum FPS when I kill pixels, and enough CUDA to keep Premiere Happy!

I have a new intel i875K rig on the way, with 3x SSD and 8gb mem + Geforce 480

// Lazze

[Paul Curtis]

Originally Posted by Lars Siden

I'm really depressed/upset by the power requirements for the Geforce Fermi series of cards! 400w at full speed - Ouch!

The specs on the nvidia site state maximum power at 250W for the 480. (Compared to 200W for the 285).

Where's the 400w coming from, because that is huge...

cheers
paul

[Lars Siden]

Hi,

I checked this review: ( power and heat )

Power Consumption And Heat : GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards!

// Lazze