Adobe Media Encoder CC - You Need to Add Unsupported CUDA Cards to supported_cuda_cards.txt

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August 30, 2013
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Hi Folks

I'm running on a Mac Pro with an NVidia GTX 770 with 4GB. Premiere Pro CC utilizes the GPU for playback and export but will give you a warning when you first enable CUDA in Mercury Playback Engine. However...

I was noticing that when I queued the export to Adobe Media Encoder CC, it was taking forever to encode simple queued sequences.

After doing a bit of research on the internet and even in these forums I realized that while Premiere Pro was being ok with supporting a non-supported card, Media Encoder was not. I added the GTX 770 to the supported_cuda_cards.txt file locate here: /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CC/Adobe Premiere Pro CC.app/Contents/ (you will need to be slightly geeky to find and modify this file - more info than I care to provide in this post but you can look up how to locate files in Mac OS).

Voila! AME now encodes super speedly, like 4 times as fast as before!!!

Thought I'd just provide this little tip for people experiencing this problem.

Adobe... can you do something about this? I know it's a corner case but really - maybe something in AME preferences or something... Like "Use CUDA capable card even if not on supported CUDA list" checkbox or something.

Now I can get back to work.

-Keith

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Paleus

Participant

Can someone please help me find the file I need to edit using CC on Windows PC?

I'm also not sure what I need to add to this .txt file as I am not entirely sure what my video card is.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Gazzaspi

Participant

Thanks Keith, well spotted..big improvement for me as well.

Gary

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Dude, I never thought of doing this. I ran some tests and found that AME no longer respects GPU acceleration like it did in CS6. PP no longer requires the hack for it to work, I assumed AME wouldn't need the hack either and that Adobe purposefully disabled it in AME for some reason.

I love that you figured this out, and thank you for posting.

jasonvp

Inspiring

Jim Simon wrote:
Dude, I never thought of doing this. I ran some tests and found that AME no longer respects GPU acceleration like it did in CS6.

I suspect this is why my export tests were so much faster than yours were. I just deleted the file, which has the same effect as adding the cards to it.

FWIW, I deleted the OpenCL file as well, so that I always have the choice between the two.