nVidia and Video Editing with Adobe Premiere CS5

[kinshipknight]

I recently bought Premiere Pro CS5. It is "optimized" for certain nVidia cards. I bought a laptop (I7 720) to do some editing on the go, but it is an ATI video card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570) witrh 512MB dedicated video memory and 1786MB shared system memory. Would it benefit me to upgrade my Premiere Pro CS4 to CS5 on this laptop, or is the absence of nVidia graphics make this "upgrade" moot on this particular laptop (a Dell Studio 1557 with Intel Core i7 Q720 (quad core) 1.60 GHz with 4 gb memory and 64 bit Windows 7.

Would CS5 benefit me with more System RAM to add to the 4 gb?

I came to this board for help with this since many "Gamers" are also seasoned high end Video graphics users, and may also be Video Production hobbyists or professionals.

[mrmouth]

I believe CS5 also supports ATI stream, so there should not be a difference aside from Nvidia acceleration being a bit better overall with things like After Effects. And there are different engines for different CS5 versions and portions/programs within CS5 like After Effects, Premiere, Premiere Pro, etc, that might work better with Nvidia, or might not be accelerated at all with ATI.

Whether it is worth an upgrade, I dont know

http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/04/12...md-technology/

Looking at some of the comments, some claim that with ATI, there is no acceleration in some portions of CS5, but that it is faster overall.

This blog all very corporate friendly, however the reality is the new Mercury engine for Premiere Pro only supports Nvidia’s CUDA, I have a perfectly good and powerful 4870 with 1GB I was hoping to use with CS5′s Premiere Pro, sadly no more. It seems that AMD is always one step behind Nvidia when it comes to development with important brands, such as Adobe. I really hope AMD picks up the ball, and makes us AMD fan’s know we bet our money on the right horse.

Extremely disappointing that CS5′s Premiere Pro does not work with ATI’s 5870′s video card (that’s what I have) … and I’ve already ordered the CS5 software. Or, it works but is not accelerated?

Well … apparently it works —> BUT it just isn’t accelerated. It seems to be a lot faster than CS4, though.

[kinshipknight]

Thanks BarnabyJones. I have found these questions difficult to find answers for.

I run CS5 with an ATI card, no problems...the program is very stable. All features work and are available.

With your video card, you'll notice slow-down with previews. I doubt more RAM would be overly noticeable (you aren't flush with 4gb, but it isn't bad either)...the vid card and the 512mb will be the bottleneck, IMHO.

Nanny de Bodemloze,

Thanks for the tip. I have just about decided to stay with CS4 on my Laptop for times when I need to do quick editing, and save CS5 for a desktop to which I can add a good strong nVidia card

[Nanny de Bodemloze]

I run CS5 with an ATI card, no problems...the program is very stable. All features work and are available.

With your video card, you'll notice slow-down with previews. I doubt more RAM would be overly noticeable (you aren't flush with 4gb, but it isn't bad either)...the vid card and the 512mb will be the bottleneck, IMHO.

[Ishan]

I use CS5 with ATI cards with no problems & more RAM will not help but RAM with lesser Latency will but not by that much difference.

[kinshipknight]

I use CS5 with ATI cards with no problems & more RAM will not help but RAM with lesser Latency will but not by that much difference.

Thanks! (KInd of perplexed about MORE RAM not helping, though.)

[Nanny de Bodemloze]

I think it is because for video stuff (games or CS5 or the like), a generalization would be that your computer is bottlenecked by your slowest part. Since what you are looking for relies heavily on the GPU, your 4870 w 512 ram will be the bottleneck, not so much your system RAM. I think.