No CUDA acceleration from GTX 780 Ti - Premiere Pro CC & After Effects CC ?

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March 12, 2014
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Hi,

I recently upgraded my computer to accomondate my move to Adobe CC on PC:

Windows 8.1 64-bit
Latest Nvidia drivers
Intel i7 4930K @ 4.5GHz
2x GTX 780 Ti SLI
32GB DDR3 2400MHz RAM
2x SSD Vertex 2 60GB @ raid0

When I'm rendered clips using both Mercury Playback Software Engine Software Only and Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA), the program behaves exactly the same and it takes the same time to do the rendering.

Exporting a 6 minute clip takes well over 2 hours to render - which obviously cannot be right.

Is there a setting I'm missing?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

BR

Andreas

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Correct answer cc_merchant

Hello Jeff,

I've made a new small clip for testing purposes. It consits of a standard Canon 5D mk iii .mov clip: 1280*720, 50fps. It is 28 seconds long ->243MB file size

I crop it in Premiere Pro, slow it down to 50% speed and ad a simle mp3 soundtrack. The exported clip is now 36 seconds long. No filters or other effects added.

It takes approximately 25 seconds to render it on either CUDA or software engines. Turning SLI on/off also make no difference. Looking at the taskmanager/MSI afterburner, there are no movement on my GPU's but the CPU utilizes all six cores @ 50% - 100%.

A small clip like this should be done more of less instantly I think, but it's way better than using my project clip which uses effects, scaling etc.

/Andreas

See Tweakers Page - What video card to use? and specifically the red warning boxes.

J

Joeynhia

Participant

Please tell me that Adobe is going to have something for this card soon (GTX 780 ti). Thank you Adobe

jasonvp

Inspiring

Joeynhia wrote:

Please tell me that Adobe is going to have something for this card soon (GTX 780 ti). Thank you Adobe

They won't mention support for specific cards in any upcoming version of Pr; it's not how Adobe works.

If you want to use the cards, use them. Remove the cuda_supported_cards.txt from the Pr and AME directories if you want to use the cards without the warning dialog popping up. Whether you remove the file or not, the card will work fine.

J

Joeynhia

Participant

Thank you so much Jason. It seems that I have to upgrade to CC to get it to work. Mine is greyed out in CS6 . I have a friend who is a professor at UNLV and he will let me be part of his account this July when she rolls her Adobe CC over again..So i'll be good come July. Thank you so much for responding to me. God Bless

John T Smith

Community Expert

http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html may help

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AjedesignAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for your link, John. Much appreciated.

From what I can read and understand, Adobe does not certify the GTX 780 Ti for use with Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC, and I find that extremely strange from a business point of view.

We use the entire CS6/CC range of programs, and we recently made a significant investment into hardware to get us up to speed with the latest and fastest. This includes the Nvidia GTX 780 Ti. There are a lot of us out there with the latest hardware using Adobe's products, and we're stuck with the Mercury Playback Software Engine Software Only.

Rendering clips is virtually pointless on our brand new hardware and it takes 10x longer now than on the old hardware... This effectively forces us (and a lot of others) to move away from Adobe's products - which is unfortunate as they are so good!.

Perhaps I was to fast in assuming that a large coperations as Adobe would be on top of their certification process.

Anyway, I now have a major problem to address: How to replace Premiere Pro and After Effects. Any suggestions?

Best Regards

/Andreas