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Photofish11448548
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September 21, 2010
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2010 MacBook Pro and Premiere Pro CS5

  • 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
    October 15, 2010

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

    Angus

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    StuCS5
    Participating Frequently
    October 15, 2010

    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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    StuCS5
    Participating Frequently
    November 2, 2011

    What are the stats of your computer?


    Model Name:          MacBook Pro

      Model Identifier:          MacBookPro6,1

      Processor Name:          Intel Core i7

      Processor Speed:          2.66 GHz

      Number of Processors:          1

      Total Number of Cores:          2

      L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB

      L3 Cache:          4 MB

      Memory: 8 GB

      Processor Interconnect Speed:          4.8 GT/s

      Boot ROM Version:          MBP61.0057.B0C

      SMC Version (system):          1.57f17

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M:

      Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

      Type:          GPU

      Bus:          PCIe

      PCIe Lane Width:          x16

      VRAM (Total):          512 MB

      Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)

      Device ID:          0x0a29

      Revision ID:          0x00a2

      ROM Revision:          3560

      gMux Version:          1.9.22

    John T Smith
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    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 21, 2010

    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
    Participant
    September 21, 2010

    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
    Colin Brougham
    Participating Frequently
    September 21, 2010

    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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