GPU on a budget for CS5

Hi, I have a GPU question here.
I’m working with both AVI and AVCHD files (Adobe PPro CS4) and I’m planning to migrate to CS5 soon. Can you please advice me what should be the minimum specs of the GPU for taking advantage of the Mercury feature of CS5? What brand?
This is my current card: MSI N250-GTS-2D1G OC 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/msi-msi-n250-gts-2d1g-oc-1gb-gddr3-pci-e-video-card -n250-gts-2d1g-oc/10136155.aspx?path=43a8c5e5a1a9380698ff458429e6507cen02
Taking into consideration my workflow (2-3 video layers, color correction across the layers, mostly AVI files), will I notice a significant improvement if I switch for example to GeForce 285 or I should rather stick with my current GPU and invest the money into additional RAM?
Thanks!

The 285GTX right now is the way to go unless you want to try this until the Fermi support is out or with a 480GTX
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/629557?tstart=0
We will be testing the 480GTX with this and see where the known issues are with rendering.

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    3Ghz
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    Physically installed the Quadro 4000
    Installed the Cuda driver
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    Installed CS5.5 from DVD disc set
    Have separate 750Gb 7200RPM media drives
    Have an external 600mbps read/write dual channed 0 Raid array for media as well
    NIGHTMARE!
    Can barely play 1 track of h.264 video/audio on an HDSLR timeline preset
    Can barely play 1 track fo video/audio on XDCAM EX 720p 24fps that comes with Adobe CS5 Classroom in a Book
    Playback stutters and drops frames, audio glitches even when Playback Resolution is dropped down to 1/2 and 1/4 resolution
    I have used both the Playback with Mercury and GPU acceleration and Mercury Engine Software only - same resulting stuttering playback
    Watching graphical CPU usage  when playing back single track and there seems to be plenty of headroom
    Media is stored on drive and raid separate from operating system drive. Scratch drive is on drive separate from Op Sys drive
    The only out of spec component with this Mac is I am missing "Core Audio sound card"
    But I have seen all sorts of Mac laptops running multiple tracks of HD with all kinds of effects applied and they played/scrubbed through the composition like butter.
    Any idea - this MacPro tower with 32Gb and Quadro 4000 cuda card should tear it up with CS5.5

    All our other edit bays are still at 32bit Leopard and are on jobs.
    We pulled this one and did the noted conversion that we are having the problems with.
    I guess your testing is both good news - the 3,1 model CAN be converted over and do a decent job.
    I assume your co-worker's 3,1 had a Quadro 4000 for the Mac graphics card?
    No choppy dropped frames at 1/2 or 1/4 playback resolution?
    Bad news is the only idea I have left is start all over again and see if that changes it.
    One new item to note, this morning on boot-up, when opening the "About this Mac" panel, the internal bong sound starts going off repeatedly (as if you are holding down a keyboard key continuously. And the scroll bars could not be used - when you drag one down and let go, they pop back up to the top. The only way to stop this all was to re-boot.
    Yesterday I re-installed FCP and that gave me back the codec for nanoFlash XDCAMHD 422 files (and probably a lot of other missing codecs).
    I then opened up a matching sequence in Premiere CS5.5 and was able to import one of these files now - so your advice on the missing codec helped here.
    But when I placed this file on the timeline - video only - no audio, it stuttered and dropped frames no matter what resolution used for playback,
    Then, here is the most telling thing, I rendered the "entire workspace" (1 clip of video only - 20 secs in length) it took 2mins/52 seconds with all 8 cores maxing out to render it.
    I then got the green line above the video in the timeline - AND STILL THE VIDEO PLAYED BACK STUTTERING AND DROPPING FRAMES EVEN THOUGH RENDERED!!
    That seems to indicate I either have something wrong with the video card or it's drivers? And maybe this morning's boot up demonstrates that as well?
    What do you folks think?
    Thank you so much Todd for making the extra effort to help with my problem.
    So anyone following this issue, it appears to not be a CS5.5 issue - but an issue with my individual machine - or graphics card or driver. Would be interested to know what graphics card and drivers you folks were using for this test.

  • I have just downloaded pixel bender for CS5  and

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  • PC build for CS5 Production Premium

    Hello everyone. Ron here from Toronto Canada.
    I'm a serious hobbyist leaning more towards video and flash production, attempting to put together a PC for CS5 Production Premium.
    I've gone through this forum recently (a few times, actually - great info - thanks guys) and have put together what I think I want, as I'm not a hardware techie.
    I'm looking to see if I'm going on overkill, or if there are any finer details I may have missed in putting together these hardware components.
    Ex: Motherboard fits in case; CPU Cooler doesn't block RAM slots; GPU good enough - SuperClocked worth the price; Overclocking issues; Good Blu-Ray burner; Hardware alternatives; etc...
    Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
    PC-X2000F - LIAN-LI Black Aluminum ATX Super Full Tower Computer Case
    CMPSU-1200AX - Corsair Professional Series Gold 1200W ATX Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold Power Supply
    GA-X58A-UD9 - GIGABYTE LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 XL ATX Intel Motherboard
    015-P3-1485-AR - EVGA 015-P3-1485-AR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) SuperClocked+ 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
    * Was going for the Quadro FX3800, but understand they're going EOL
    F3-12800CL7T-12GBTDD - G.SKILL Trident+ Turbulence II 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model
    BX80613I7980X - Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Six-Core Socket LGA1366, 3.33Ghz, 6.4GT/s FSB, 12MB L3 Cache, 32nm (Retail Boxed)
    NH-D14 - Noctua Six Heatpipe Dual Radiator CPU Cooler for Intel Socket LGA1366/1156/775 & AMD Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3
    AS5-3.5G - Arctic Silver 5 (3.5g) High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound
    WD2003FYYS - (2x) Western Digital RE4 2TB SATAII 7200RPM 64M Buffer - OEM
    WD6000HLHX - Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB SATA 6Gb/s 10000RPM 32MB OEM
    LG WH10LS30K - LG 10X Blu-ray Burner - LightScribe Support - Bulk - OEM
    GLC-00736 - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - OEM
    Thanks again.

    Thanks Harm. Phew!! What a relief.
    My next step is to order my list through a local computer store rather than online, and have them build it for me for the cost of shipping and me trying to build it myself.
    >> I wonder where you can find the F3 Trident 4 G sticks though. A great choice but hard to get I think. I have been looking at that memory as well to upgrade to 24 G.
    I got the idea from: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2968126
    Which led me to: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231381
    This led me to another question. In the reviews section ( http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820231359 ) there's mention of the price for the 6x4 sticks being a marketing trick, where its cheaper to buy 2x (3x4) sticks. Yet one reply to that, mentions the price difference is because the 6x4 sticks are all made to work together. I also read somewhere that its better to get the 6 pack because they're all manufactured on the same line. Any thoughts?
    >> If anything critical, consider more disks and a separate hardware controller for the RE4's. Not absolutely necessary, but desirable.
    I thought about this already from previous discussions. Thanks for mentioning it, however. Greatly appreciated. In my case, this will be a future consideration.
    Thanks for the fast response, Harm.
    And many thanks to the other contributors for your time and wealth of information.
    Ron

  • Best $3K off the shelf system for CS5??

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    would be the Best $3K off the shelf system for CS5??
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    ok...dell and hp steal
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  • Hard Drive setup for CS5 master collection

    Dear All,
    I am looking for advice on what drive configuration to use. I am currently reformatting all drives for a new cs5 install and have the following drives:
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    3. Seagate 7200 rpm - 1.5tb
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    I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with 6 gig memory and i7 processor
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    Any advice most welcome, would like to try to get it right first time!
    Regards
    Chris Anderson

    Hi Harm
    many thanks for your reply. I am considering purchasing new HD's specific to build a machine just for CS5.
    What would you recommend for performance. No price budget as such.
    Im thinking 15000rpm.
    Im thinking SATA - is this the fastest?
    Do i have to consider the motherboard to support fast sata drives? - i am confused as i see you can get sata drives with a 6gig transfer speed, does this depend
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    Would a bigger cache ie 64mb make a good improvement?
    Any advice most welcome
    Thanks
    Chris Anderson

  • Using XMP Lib in a plugin for CS5.0 Windows

    Hello
    I have been able to compile the XMP-Toolkit-SDK-5.1.2 and use it successfully in a plugin for CS5.0 Mac OS X.
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    There seems to be a conflict between the XML library and msvcprt.lib library. If I try to exclude the msvcprt.lib library I get only one error.
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    1>PlugInStatics1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall std::locale::id::id(unsigned int)" (__imp_??0id@locale@std@@QAE@I@Z)
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    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(void)" (??1?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@XZ) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(WXMPMeta.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: char const * __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::c_str(void)const " (?c_str@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QBEPBDXZ) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(WXMPMeta.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(char const *)" (??0?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@PBD@Z) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(XMPCore_Impl.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: unsigned int __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::size(void)const " (?size@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QBEIXZ) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(WXMPMeta.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: void __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::push_back(char)" (?push_back@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEXD@Z) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(XMPUtils.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > & __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::assign(char const *,unsigned int)" (?assign@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEAAV12@PBDI@Z) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(XMPCore_Impl.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: char const * __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::data(void)const " (?data@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QBEPBDXZ) already defined in XMPFilesStaticRelease.lib(P2_Handler.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > & __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::operator=(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &)" (??4?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEAAV01@ABV01@@Z) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(XMPCore_Impl.obj)
    1>msvcprt.lib(MSVCP90.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(void)" (??0?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@XZ) already defined in XMPCoreStaticRelease.lib(WXMPMeta.obj)
    Best Regards
    / Pontus Hulin

    Hi Pontus.
    You're probably mixing static libraries with shared.
    Regards
    Bartek

  • I want to upgrade to CS6 Production Premium suite from CS5.5.  Can I use CS6 upgrade made for CS5, or do I have to use upgrade that specifically states for CS5.5.

    I want to upgrade to CS6 Production Premium suite from CS5.5.  Can I use CS6 upgrade made for CS5, or do I have to use upgrade that specifically states for CS5.5.
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    at the link i posted i see an upgrade for cs5 and cs5.5.
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  • S David I have 2 licens for cs5.5 and have serial number . I cancelled if from my computer (windows 8 operation system)  i just purchased a mac i mak all in one computer and want to install my cs5.5 on it ... i need a download link to do this can you help

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  • Upgrade to CS4 web premium . . . or wait for CS5 ?

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