Thankfully, you might be able to use CUDA in your iMac or Macbook Pro without spending any money on a new machine or graphic card. If your Project Project Setting: Video Rendering and Playback Render is greyed out in Premiere, don’t give up! Here is how you can still turn this on and enjoy the rendering power of a professional video editing machine.First, make sure you have a graphic card (GPU) – a lower end iMac and Macbook Pro usually have dedicated Video Cards for gaming and video editing. In my case, I got the newest iMac with NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (1GB video memory).
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By default, CUDA needs at least 768M video RAM, just 18M higher than the standard iMac Video card! (blame Apple).
But don’t panic, you can still use GPU acceleration.
Unsupported video card?I don’t know if the list below is exhaustive or if it has been expanded upon recently(Windows). GeForce GTX 285. GeForce GTX 470.
GeForce GTX 570. GeForce GTX 580. Quadro CX. Quadro FX 3700M. Quadro FX 3800.
Quadro FX 3800M. Quadro FX 4800. Quadro FX 5800. Quadro 2000. Quadro 2000D. Quadro 2000M. Quadro 3000M.
Quadro 4000. Quadro 4000M. Quadro 5000. Quadro 5000M. Quadro 5010M.
Quadro 6000. Tesla C2075(Mac).
GeForce GTX 285. Quadro CX. Quadro FX 4800. Quadro 4000.
The hack that Spirit mentions above is documented in greater detail hereBeware - You do this at your own risk. These graphics cards are not on the white-list for a reason - they are not considered stable enough in After Effects yet. If you are using a Kepler-class graphics card, as Todd Kopriva puts it “Cards not on the whitelist may fail, and fail badly.”As for the Quadro 600, the link above says that it will work if the card has at least 1GB of video RAM. Yours is just short, Cyzer so who knows how it will behave.Here’s a detailed discussion from the Adobe forums.
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Quadro for Mac is good - fast and quiet.It certainly has a couple of quirks now and then it seems, but it’s fast and stable. Works a treat for Ae anyway. The new raytrace 3D is pretty fast (not that I have any benchmark for that) and it’s seems pretty solid with Fast Draft and other Open GL accelerated stuff in CS6.I can’t say I’ve noticed the C4D viewport being any quicker.
I haven’t done a direct comparison. But in this respect it seems to be not so different from the Radeon 5870 that I had before. You can absolutely forget doing ray-traced 3D without a CUDA enabled GPU or recommending that customers can render ray-traced in Ae without one. It’s too slow to be practical.
For moderately complex scenes, I ran a test or two and gave up after 5 minutes when the first frame still hadn’t finished rendering. The GPU did it in about 20 seconds.I find in general that you can’t push ray-tracing that far without having a long render on your hands. It’s pretty good for a simple extrude and a couple of lights, but for anything more complex - soft shadows, diffuse reflections etc. It feels a little bit like back to the bad old days of overnight renders and making a cup of tea while a frame renders. Time to party like it’s 1999! Felttips saidflashato saidI had a last night about AE CS6 ray tracing feature.I personally did not have CS6 yet so can t say on my machine.But if you plan to do templates with it you will need to keep in mind the user machine’s spec.Also i signed up for the trial of the new just for curiosity:bigwink:@Flash.
Let us know what you make of Smoke. The fact that it’s node base (apparently) is a very big draw. So much better for complex comps.I won’t be doing much,I will mess around,press some buttons, and uninstall it:bigevilgrin.
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