SAVE MONEY ON YOUR Q6600 VIDEO-EDITING WORKSTATION

This is a "Show me the money" type of GPU acceleration speed test of a CUDA based video card used in Premiere Pro CS5 on a three year old workstation which has a Q6600 Intel Quad processor, 8GB RAM, 150 WD (10,00rpm) Raptor as the C:drive, no raid on editing drives, with a 320 scratch disk. This video proves that one can save money avoiding building a new workstation, by simply buying a CUDA-based video card, unlocking it, and enabling GPU acceleration in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. After this upgrade AVCHD fottage plays smoothly even when preview is set to "Full Resolution Playback".

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CUDA
• CS5
• Premiere
• Adobe
• Q6600
• unlock
• unlocking
• MSI
• GT240
• video card
• graphic card
• graphics card
• ddr5
• AVCHD

[WarpedTrekker]

I have GTX 460 with 768mb and it works fine with CS5 Mercury Playback. Although you are right that 1GB is the recommended memory. 768mb is the bare minimum.

[innomind]

@WarpedTrekker Do you get real-time encoding to H.264 HD file with your card?

[WarpedTrekker]

RAID0 is still needed depending on video format you are editing. High-end video file formats with high bitrate require very fast hard drives in RAID0. One hard drive will choke because of low bandwidth. GPU has nothing to do with RAID. GPU is for preview and rendering. You can also get a GTX 460 with more CUDA cores for around $90 today, and get faster encoding but still not real-time with 1080p material. Any encode slower than real-time is too slow for me. 1hr video should take 1hr encode max.

[innomind]

@WarpedTrekker You are mistaken about GTX 460 card, the DDR5 1GB RAM version of it is a bit over $200, not $90... You need at least 1GB RAM card for the CUDA unlock described in this video to work. For the budget-minded the GT240 DDR5 1GB RAM does the trick.

As far as RAID0 goes; You are right, if you are editing RED footage or anything beyond 24mbps you'd need RAID0 configuration. I edit 17mbps AVCHD footage which works great with the described setup mentioned..

[bigkittysmile]

thanks for the info

[gospeda]

02:23 attached to the wall?? to save money..

[VideoFletcher]

I cant choose that option. I have a GTX 460 1 gig aswell but it wont work

[WarpedTrekker]

No not quite. 720p is close to real-time but not 1080p. I ordered Matrox MXO with H264 to use for real-time encoding. Expensive, but I can't wait several hours to encode 1 hour video.