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Recommened VIDEO CARD for Adobe Premiere Pro

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November 8, 2011
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What VIDEO CARD do you guys recommened for Adobe Premiere Pro, I'm having some problems and I believe it's the Video Card...

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Anonymous

Rarely had a problem with this. However, for whom it may helped. I would recomend from below:

http://www.123inkcartridges.ca/catalog/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=video+card

Because It always meet my budget plan.

Denfintly need to call to be sure.

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Tranquil_Coast15A8

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I am using an nVidia 550Ti. First only use nVidia cards if you want to use the GPU acceleration, which is one of the main standouts points for PrPro for me. Look up the number of CUDA cores on the card. I have read that more is not necessarily better, the 550Ti has 96 I think. There are better cards, some of which cost alot more, like the quadros. Check out the good posts using searches for Mercury playback and GPU acceleration. I think the minimum for acceleration is 768 MB of video ram. Get DDR 3 or better DDR 5. Forget DDR 2. Good luck Jack

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mystickid

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I called adobe just to make sure, and only the cards listed on the pc requirements page support the mercury playback engine. In my budget range, I can only afford a GTX 470 or 570 (both cards are MPE supported). Ideally I want a GTX 560 because it's less expensive than the 570 and way ahead of my ATI 5570. But the sad thing for me is that the 560 is not MPE supported; only the 470/570. Fiddlesticks!

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

B. S. The GTX 560 works fine!
All you have to do is properly add it the "cuda_supported_cards.txt" file. Search for nVidia hack

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

After all the speculation I thought this might be appropriate to present a few facts. Here are my results on PPBM5.5 testing on my "library" of six CUDA cards that work with Premiere CS5.5.

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RjL190365

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Thanks, Bill, for the CS5.5 results. This confirms that if one is stuck with a cheapo GeForce or Quadro card with fewer than 96 CUDA cores on a reasonably fast i7 system, and he is using CS5.5, he might as well permanently lock CS5.5 to the MPE software-only mode and not even bother with the "hack" at all. Under this scenario, the 9500 GT in MPE software-only mode achieves a total time of only 435 seconds versus 1002 seconds in MPE GPU-accelerated mode. (In fact, an overclocked i7-2600K with 16GB of RAM but a really cheapo GeForce card with CS5.5 set to the MPE GPU mode is even slower overall, especially in MPEG-2 encoding, than the 990-ish second result of my stock-speed i3-2100 with only 4GB of RAM and integrated Intel HD Graphics 2000 with CS5.5 set to software-only mode.) It also shows that the best current values among the CUDA GPUs have somewhere between 300 and 500 CUDA cores (this means the GTX 560, 560 Ti or 570, of which the 570 is officially on the Adobe list).

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

Tuesday the upgraded GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores goes on sale, that puts it in almost the 570 class. Since the good nVidia Kepler's now look like it they could be almost a year away I may see if I can find one at a reasonable price in the next month or two.

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PLKetron2

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Harm - to clarify your recommendation, you are saying select a nVidia video card above 560, as in either the GTX 570/580? Or any nVidia card above 560?

Darren - your information on the cuda, 1GB, etc. is why I visit the forums. Rhetorical question, why doesn't Adobe put that requirement in their requirements rather thana card list? Their list most likely, will always lag behind the video card introduction. Especially when you consider that the 570/580 were released almos a year ago. Note: as far as the 560 vs. 570, its not about price, in every review I have seen the 560 is 25-30% faster, meaning that the 570 isn't taking advantage of its 30% more transistors. What is the file name I need to modify? and which line of "code"?

Thank you for the feedback hope it helps ALMedcalf6 too.

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JustAnotherPhotog

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http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

This is the link to the article and Hack program you can use.

As to why Adobe doesn't just say X number of cores..... They have posted in many parts of these forums that they test the video cards they recommend, and can't make a blanket recommendation based on a cards stats. You might email Adobe's employees who monitor this forum, and others. I just know when I was making the selection about 3 months ago, they were sticking with their list of cards. As the article points out, this company has tested many more cards and can attest to them working. Weather the 560 does out perform the 570 or not, I don't know. I just bought the 570 as it seemed like the best bang for the buck that was on the list that I could source. It gave me the ability to call Adobe for Technical support, which I wanted as I was switching from Mac platforms, which I was more comfortable with to a PC edit system.

Hope this helps

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Jack Banatoni

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I'm not really clear on how the memory of the GPU comes into play (1GB vs 2GB). Would it be better to get a 2GB GTX 550 Ti or a 1GB GTX 560 Ti? Or would a 1GB GTX 550 Ti achieve similar results?

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PLKetron2

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Harm - are you currently using the 560? Assuming so, would you please provide more information since that card hasn't made the approved Adobe list...yet? Please describe your card. Is it a nVidia reference card vs. EVGA, XFX, etc. OCed? 1GB, 2GB? Are you running it in SLI with a 2nd 560? If not in SLI with the 560, do you have any experience with previous SLI configurations? The reason I ask is some versions don’t seem to work as expected as the configuration changes. Did you have to “hack” it as Darren Kelly suggested getting it to run? Have you had any problems with the Mercury playback? Thank you, in advance, for the info.

Harm_Millaard

Inspiring

If you go to Benchmark Results you can see that I have a single Point-of-View brand nVidia GTX 480 video card.

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

What do you have now? Rarely is the video card the problem. I personally am going to wait for the next generation GTX 6xx series to be introduced within the next 1-3 months before I spend any more money on GPU's

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JustAnotherPhotog

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I'm using an Nvidia GTX 570 as my primary card.

I just added an Nvidia GT210, which I hope to be able to output to a 3rd monitor.Not sure that will work.

The 570 is the sweet spot. Very powerful, and can be had in the $325 range if not less. Remember, a series 6 card may not be compatible with Adobe.

John T Smith

Community Expert

2 cards and 3 monitors http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875252?tstart=0

- and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/876675?tstart=0

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JustAnotherPhotog

Participating Frequently

There is an approved list on the Adobe website, but many people buy a different nvidia card, and then do a hack on the system.

Look more through this forum, you will find a website that will help you choose.

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excited_Genie16B8

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If I were to buy a card right now, this would be at the top of my list.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130662

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77mrd

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Lookin at the nVidia GTX 560+, I see 2 monitor DVI output and an HDMI. Does this mean 3 monitors can be setup on this one card?

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RjL190365

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The GeForce cards are limited to two monitors per card, unfortunately. This limitation is in hardware.

That said, if you plug something into all three ports, you might not get any image at all from any of the three ports unless you disconnect at least one of the monitors.

Harm_Millaard

Inspiring

nVidia GTX 560+

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