Re: Stupid questions regarding CUDA, OpenCL and Premiere 6

I think you guys are making way too big of a deal with CUDA. All it does is accelerate scaling functions and some of the built-in effects, like Premiere's color correction. If you don't use any of these, you will see no difference between a CUDA and non-CUDA card. I'm running an ATI5870 (not a CUDA card) and with 1080p/23.98 ProRes footage, I'm getting great performance.

Premiere offers a performance throttle by changing the viewer playback resolution. So if I set it to 1/4 and apply an effect like MB Looks, it will still run in real-time without rendering. If I swapped this card for a Quadro 4000 (a CUDA card), I wouldn't get any better performance with this same MB Looks effect.

If you bounce heavy effects out to After Effects instead of doing them in Premiere Pro, then it also doesn't matter, since CUDA and the Mercury engine don't benefit AE.

- Oliver

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Orlando, FL
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