Re: Mac CS6 no Cuda / Open CL on supported laptop

Well, not so good. That is the answer for Open CL acceleration on Macbook Pro. I "upgraded" to Lion and performance takes a serious hit. What I was able to preview in real time on Snow Leopard CS5 and "CS6 preview" is now dropping frames in Lion. Overall Lion seems to be a clunkier, slower interface than Snow Leopard.

Example:
Layer 2: 1 keyed actor with Ultra Key and Adobe 3-wat CC.
Layer 1: Background layer 200%, BCC Cartooner applied.
In Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and CS6 and "CS6 preview" the playback preview was in RT at full, occasionally dropped frames but caught up and back to RT. This is with Mercury Playback Software mode.

In Lion and "CS6 preview", Full Res, laggy timeline and constant frozen/dropped frames, dropped frames indicator solid yellow. At 1/2 res playback playhead goes for about 2-3 seconds and then drops frames, drop frame indicator then turns yellow for duration of preview. This is with Open CL hardware acceleration turned ON.

I realize that this is an unsupported trial release but it worked much better in Snow Leopard. Lets hope Adobe gets it together.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7