Even @AdobePremiere is getting into the act of Hacking Adobe Premiere CS5 to enable more nVidia CUDA cards. Using the word "hacked" in red seems to have been effective; the post has generated a good amount of feedback.Background on this unsupported but tacitly blessed trick can be found in earlier posts like Preference mod unlocks CS5 CUDA acceleration.
Update: there are some instructions for the same on the Mac at Insanely Mac in How To Cuda / Mercury Engine on Premiere CS5 / Snow Leopard [ lower end graphic cards ].
Update: on the AE-List (July 26), Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy noted,
"Speaking of CUDA, we've recently released a couple things to take advantage of it and it's quite nifty. But in the tests we've done on the boards, the consumer boards compare really well with the pro boards. The GTX 480 holds its own against the Quadro 4800, and is possibly faster, at a third of the price. At least for CUDA stuff. Not sure about general OpenGL performance.
So if you're using Premiere Pro and don't have the cash for a 3800/4800, try
one of the newer high-end consumer boards."
So if you're using Premiere Pro and don't have the cash for a 3800/4800, try
one of the newer high-end consumer boards."
Update: Premiere CS5.0.3 added support for the Quadro 5000M (Windows only) for mobile laptops. On the AE-List Dec 30, Jarle Leirpoll noted that he gets realtime playback for several HD layers with several filters on his Dell Precision M6400 with the Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M.
2 comments:
Insider information is that Apple specifically asked Adobe to lock out the nVidia CUDA cards prior to the release of CS5. The ability was always there, it is just software disabled.
It can't be trivial or Apple would have already implemented access. They're not esp tied to ATI.
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