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2010 MacBook Pro and Premiere Pro CS5

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September 21, 2010
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Wondering if my new MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M can handle video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Anonymous

Anyone other than Death Cab For Stuie have this working on a Macbook Pro?

Angus

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StuCS5

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This is strange as i refuse to believe i'm the only one (apart from my two friends i know of) that has this working...

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Larry_Applegate

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Hello moose, Im running a mid 2010 17in MBP with the 2.66 i7 with 8GB RAM, 256GB Solid State HDD, HiRes Anti-Glare Screen, 30in Apple Display as 2nd monitor, 4TB RAID E-Sata external setup through ExpressCard 34 (nothing but hassle, drive corruption etc... I can see why apple hasn't added esata to the MBP's just yet)... I like the 17in models but if you need more portability the 15in i7 can be configured the same, basically you DO want to spend more cash on RAM and the Solid State Drive just adds to speed up the machine during normal use...

This works well in Premier Pro but as laptops are strangled with the amount of ram you can add and the fact we don't have a quad core MBP (thought one would have came in 2010 but hey ho, battery life comes first i guess) don't expect stellar performance in After Effects but it does work well enough if you want to use the MBP as a desktop replacement (it never will replace a workstation though really, lets be honest)

Working with the HD footage off of the new bunch of SLR's and Cams works absolutely fine, trying to work with RED footage gets a little tedious unless you convert it all to something along the lines of ProRes...

Any other questions just ask...

Regarding eSata on my MacBook Pro 17" I5, the Sonnet Tempo Pro eSata Express card works flawlessly, even with an old 2-drive FirmTek enclosure, on both OS X and WIndows 7. I also have CS5 installed, but I do not do heavy Premiere editing, I use it to create and test Encore projects for our BluStreak Premaster replication application.

Larry Applegate

Rivergate Software, Inc.

www.blustreak.dvdaferedit.com

John T Smith

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Read Harm on drive setup

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972?tstart=0
- click the embedded picture in Harm's message to enlarge to reading size
- you need AT LEAST 2 drives for video editing, 3 is better
- some HD formats work better with (require) RAID

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Photofish11448548Author

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Thank you for your response. Very helpful info. But this question is in regards to GPU compatibility.

Sorry if that was unclear. But, yes I do have a storage system in place for video editing. I use a DROBO with four 1TB drives for source material. This has worked well for editing in Final Cut Express. I am considering making the switch to Premiere Pro CS5 to edit HDSLR footage, as it can edit it natively without the need for transcoding. I don't see the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M as a supported GPU and wondering if I can still take advantage of the Mercury Processing Engine.

Upon further investigation, there is a CUDA driver on the NVIDIA site that does support the GeForce GT 330M. Does anyone know if this is something I should install?

Many thanks

Colin Brougham

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Certain GPUs are officially supported for hardware acceleration using the Mercury Playback Engine. This list does not include any mobile GPUs. There is a hack (do a search) to enable this capability on certain other unsupported GPUs, and some have reported success with a small number of mobile GPUs. However, the prerequisitie--official or otherwise--is that the GPU (not the system) have more than 768MB of memory. If your GPU has more memory than that, you might be able to use the hack, but I would be inclined to believe you don't have this much GPU memory with a Mac Book Pro.

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