Official NVidia CUDA Unlock for Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5

Tutorial on CUDA setup in Adobe CS5 products. Works with all CUDA enabled GPUs from NVidia. Enables CUDA for Premiere Pro and OpenGL in After Effects for faster rendering and 3D animation. The drivers for CUDA are able to be downloaded on NVidia's site.

BEFORE DOWNLOAD OF CUDA:
Install the latest drivers of your video card. And update to the latest version of your Adobe software first.

CUDA Drivers:

http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

-Download the "CUDA Toolkit" for your system and install after your NVidia GPU drivers are enabled.

Programs Used:
-Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
-Camtasia Studio 7
-NVidia Control Panel
-Piriform Speccy

My Hardware Setup:

OLD HARDWARE

MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.013 GHz
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 1333MHz
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA790GPT-UD3H (Socket M2)
SyncMaster @ 1920x1200 896MB GeForce GTX 260 (EVGA)

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• nvidia
• adobe
• premiere
• pro
• after
• effects
• cuda
• geforce
• gtx
• 260

[iaremrsir]

@stiansnorskenyheter Yeah a computer can do well without the card. It will do better with it though. It would be like putting nitrous in a car with 500hp that's tops out at 200mph

[ProvokedArtists]

How well does this work for helping you render your videos? Does it speed it up alot?

[iaremrsir]

@ProvokedArtists It depends. If you're working with the GPU accelerated effects and with multiple layers and formats of video, then it definitely helps. It will take care of the rendering for you. Depending on how powerful the card is, you could do upwards of five layers of HD footage. But remember, it doesn't handle everything. You need to have a sufficient processor and amount of RAM for the type of footage you're editing.

[aljunspy21]

can you install it without any video card?

[iaremrsir]

@aljunspy21 You need the CUDA card for it to work. Here is a list of cards that do. Look at my "Premiere Pro CS5 CUDA Unlock Update: Works with PCs, Laptops, Macs, and MacBooks" video for a list of compatible cards.

[iaremrsir]

@gxryd3r Premiere only supports CUDA. However, OpenGL works in After Effects for preview your compositions.

[maxaxelpro]

thx for this I got from 1 hour 20 min rendering to 13-17 mins, its amazing :D

[TalesOfWar]

@5haha They just put the ones they've fully tested in there.

[HuntersFan]

All is cool, but you don't have to install CUDA developer kit. The newest nVidia drivers will suffice. To check if your card is CUDA compatible run: c:program files/adobe/adobe premiere pro cs5/gpusniffer.exe from cmd.

[5haha]

@iaremrsir why aren't the CUDA cards enabled by default?

[5haha]

@StiansNorskeNyheter mine lags even with 3 720p vids on top of 1 1080p.... any idea why? does breaking a video into several parts affect playback? -8gb ram, i7 laptop

[rockzboy]

Works Perfeccct!!!! headsoff "iaremrsir" Thanks for such a greatt tutorial!! :)

God Bless You :)

[lNFERlOR]

Thanks alot! :D

[StiansNorskeNyheter]

i can have 12 layers of hd 1080 video up on eachother and play back real time, without any gpu acc, but i have 8gb ram. that helps. so want fast playback? buy alot of ram. sure it helps with a gpu nvidia card, but im just sayin ;)