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Inspiring
February 28, 2020
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FAQ: Optimising Premiere Pro settings for Mac and PC with Quick Sync CUDA ASIO and more

  • February 28, 2020
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The video tutorial shows how to change settings in Premiere Pro to work 100% effecient with your computers hardware including Quick Sync, CUDA, Open CL and ASIO.



 

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Participant
March 27, 2020

Hi there, woumd you help me with this? Why my sony A7iii 4k fotage runs smooth, but my gopro on 4k or Mavic 2 pro runs really choppy?
Im talking without the need of rendering.

 

Thanks!

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 22, 2020

Mikey,

Your GoPro and Mavic footage is more highly compressed. I would recommend that you ingest such footage to be transcoded to ProRes.

 

Thank You,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2020

For what it's worth: I've had very good results using Metal on a Mac Mini running macOS (not Windows) if it has a supported integrated graphics card.  If it's an older Mini without supported integrated graphics, Metal will not be available.

Inspiring
March 15, 2020

This is some really great info! Thank you! It clears up some questions for which I have been digging to find answers (unproductively).

 

One thing though:

Can you explain why ASIO4ALL is preferable to native audio drivers? I know why ASIO drivers are preferable to MME/WDM if they are dedicated to the hardware, but A4A is a software intermediary. I'm a sound engineer/producer/DJ and I have always found that ASIO4ALL, while useful to make things "play nice" together, introduces significant processing overhead and latency issues (not to mention the fact that it hasn't been updated in years). I haven't needed to use it in a while, so I don't have any numbers for comparison, but theoretically this should increase the system load since you're talking about...

Host Application 🠞 A4A 🠞 WDM/MME 🠞 Hardware

...instead of ...

Host Application 🠞 WDM/MME 🠞 Hardware

...right?

 

I could easily be wrong (again I don't have any benchmarks to back this up) but I can't imagine adding something to the signal chain would reduce overhead. I'll do some comparisons and report back, but it sounds a little odd to me (again, not saying you're wrong by any means).

Andy 1968Author
Inspiring
July 24, 2020

ASIO4ALL can sometimes allow a piece of hardware to do more than it was designed to do and play better with other audio devices. It may or may not be your best bet.  

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 9, 2020

Thank you very much for this excellent explanation, Andy!

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio