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    Anybody editing on Premiere Pro and taking advantage of CUDA?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by mercatus, Sep 3, 2011.

  1. mercatus

    mercatus Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got my M17xR3 specifically for video editing and so I could hook up my cameras to it with HDMI and have an additional external monitor for viewing footage. Anybody else doing either of these things?

    I ask mainly because I cannot get Premiere Pro to work on my computer! It hangs and freezes every single time I use it. I have no idea what to do about this.
     
    mercatus, Sep 3, 2011
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    Try uninstalling then using the Creative Suite Cleaner tool: Adobe - Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool

    Then reinstall.

    I presume you do know how to use the CUDA hack to get CUDA on your NVIDIA card supported?
     
    denogun, Sep 4, 2011
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    Why does he need a Cuda Hack?
     
    vads24, Sep 4, 2011
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    "hack" > meaning you have to manually edit a text-file to enable cuda on your nvidia mobile-gpu.
     
    mrm2x, Sep 4, 2011
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    Yeah, otherwise you wont be able to get hardware acceleration from the Mercury Engine.
     
    denogun, Sep 4, 2011
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    Thank for clarifying....I presumed Cuda would be detectable as it does in Adobe etc. where it automatically uses it for rendering. I am using photoshop and power director 9.
     
    vads24, Sep 4, 2011
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  7. mercatus

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    yes i did do the cuda hack to enable gpu hardware acceleration. i actually have not used Adobe's creative suite cleaner. I've just been using C Cleaner, i'll have to give Adobe's a try.
     
    mercatus, Sep 5, 2011
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    in the meantime, has anyone else used an m17xr3 for video editing with premiere pro? i'm curious about the performance others are getting on their set ups. here's mine:

    OS: Windows 7 64-Bit Home Edition with all the lastest updates.

    CPU: Intel Core i7 2720QM with the latest drivers.

    RAM: 8GB DDR3 (I'll be ugrading this to 16GB in the near future, if I can get Premiere Pro to work)

    Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M with 1.5 GB of GDDR5 Ram with the latest drivers.

    Hard Drives: The laptop came with a 1.5TB Raid 0 config from 2 750 GB 7,200 RPM drives. I then have two external 750GB WD usb 3.0 drives. I'm using the 3 disk general disk guidelines posted on this forum. C – OS, Programs, Page File, D – Media, Projects, and E – Previews, Media Cache, Exports

    I'm trying to edit AVCHD clips from my AF100, HMC150, and GH2.
     
    mercatus, Sep 5, 2011
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    I recently purchased the m17x primarily for video editing as well, I'm curious to hear what others have experienced using this laptop with premier pro and editing in general.

    Can someone explain how this nvidia cuda works and how I might go about taking advantage of it on my gtx 460m? I just switched over from a macbook pro so all of this is relatively new to me, been out of the loop for a while.
     
    ceta, Sep 6, 2011
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    Didn't see that huge of a difference running it on the desktop (560Ti).
     
    ewitte12, Sep 6, 2011
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    Adobe Premiere CS5 and Premiere CS5.5 Video Cards with CUDA Acceleration Mercury Playback Unlock Enable MPE Hack Mod Tip
     
    mercatus, Sep 6, 2011
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    thats a good thing right? desktop performance on a laptop. what codec are you working with?
     
    mercatus, Sep 6, 2011
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    found the problem with my m17x and premiere pro. apparently, the OS customizations that alienware put on the laptop were causing and incombatibility issue with premiere pro.

    alienware tech support charged me 59.99 to basically pull their own buggy OS theme off of my laptop. ridiculous.

    if i wasn't so relieved that premiere pro finally works for me i'd be pissed about the cost
     
    mercatus, Sep 15, 2011
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    Not what I said. On the same desktop versus GPU performance difference was not all that great. Maybe 10-20%?
     
    ewitte12, Sep 15, 2011
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    performance on my m17x is ridiculous now. it cuts through AVCHD like butter
     
    mercatus, Sep 15, 2011
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    Wow nice thx for this :)
     
    DeeX, Sep 16, 2011
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