Premiere & Nvidia

Report · Nov 21, 2017

I like the speed and easy of use of Premiere. So after using Avid I decided to edit a small commercial shot on Red. What a mistake. All the issue of cuda support came crushing back. The dreaded black program monitor appeared and the only solution was to delete lumtri and re-edit - even using baselight its a problem. I tried 3 computers- all HP z840's with 2TB ssd etc etc and the latest quadro graphics- in all a system that costs £15k. I even tried two other PC's with K4200 and K2200. I then let Adobe remote control my PC- and after 30 minutes a senior person from Adobe said " It's an issue with Nvidia's cuda and its not supported. Its an on-going issue with Nvidia and keep an eye out for updates from them."

So in a nutshell. Nvidia does not support Adobe Premiere

Report · Nov 21, 2017

That's weird. I worked a lot in premiere.believe me I'm not a fan and I don't like where they are heading with the new updates. but to be honest I think cuda works great with my Nvidia TitanX. I edited 4K RED files with no issue and a few day ago I finished a tv commercila shot on 4K RAW DNG files plays smooth and perfect.

I have a lot of other issues and things I hate about premiere but cuda with my nvidia GPU and dynamic link are the reason why I don't switch to another editing software.

btw, if your FXs are slowing down you playback, (for example lumetri + neat video noise reduction) you can bypass all filters and then turn them on again with one click. there is a FX button you can add to the program monitor

Report · Nov 21, 2017

lumetri is plain awful and the reason cuda is having problems. I don't used neat video or other plugins as the red images require pre-grading anyway to get rid of chroma etc. Most of our grading is done in base light by a different facilities house, but editing with premiere has been nothing but a nightmare- late deadlines- and yesterday we missed our ad slots. The problem is literally Nvidia/Adobe poor programming support- like i said Adobe remote logged into our edit suite and the problem was diagnosed. I have now returned to Avid after that experience. Utterly dreadful software

Report · Nov 21, 2017

sorry to hear that. I understand your anger. maybe is an issue on PC that doesn't exist on Mac.

as I said the only way to slowdown or have any issue with CUDA playback on my mac is loading heavy plugins like neatvideo.

There was also an issue with mercuryplayback that I found when the program monitor was in the same screen than the mercury playback destination output but when I moved the program monitor to another screen it was back to normal playback hope that was not your case. It was driving me mad and the solution right there.

Lumetri runs incredible well with cuda on my Mac 4K RAW DNG files are played from a SDD PCI 2T CARD and it's a MacPro from 2010. (of course loaded with tons of updates like an HP Z) so maybe is just a bug in PPro windows version

Good luck!

Report · Nov 21, 2017

One thing I notice is that the problem system uses Quadro and the working system uses GeForce.