Why is my DSLR playback so sluggish, even with CUDA?

Hello,
At work I'm using Premiere cs5.5 on a MAC Pro running osx 10.7.4, it's a 2x2.4 quad core xeon with 12gb of RAM. My primary edit drive is a RAID 0 and I have the NVidia quatro 4000 with CUDA enabled in premiere.
My main question is why my DSLR playback is still incredibly slow when trying to watch footage? I get maybe...4 seconds of smooth playback and then it gets choppy. Even at 1/4 preview quality. It's mostly when watching footage shot with Canon 5D Mark III.
I compared footage shot with my Canon 60D and with my Mark III and the 60D played back without any issue at all, smooth all the way through, with an avg. bit rate of 5.6MB. The Mark III, set on high compression (similar to that of the 60D) avg. bit rate of 3.7MB, gets super choppy within seconds.
Is there a known bug or issue with the Mark III files playing back in premiere? CUDA seems to make no difference in performance for this. It's no better at playing back Mark III footage then when I try on my 3 yr old Dell studio Xps laptop within Premiere 5.5. The laptop I understand, but a fully decked out Mac Pro with CUDA? It seems like something is up.
I don't think it's the video card (but I'm only guessing), as it only seems to happen with Mark III footage. When I playback this footage through quicktime or preview, it plays without issue.
I find in general premiere pro to be sluggish on my mac compared to my win 7 edit machine at home, is there any validation to that?
Thanks for any help you can provide, these forums are very useful.
James

Hi Jim, that helps with some general info, but it's the fact that it's all Mark III footage specifically that is giving me hassles, and the fact that is plays back without issue in quicktime or preview, makes me believe it's a premiere issue. I'm not running off an external drive or anything either, I've got a RAID 0 that's got some great performance and premiere still bottlenecks.
I've been reading about Open GL 2 (one of the system requirements) issues with this card on a mac, but I'm not really too sure what to make of it, or how to check what my system is running or how to correct any issues.
Thanks
James

Similar Messages

  • Why i cannot open a PDF file even with abobe 9

    why i cannot open a PDF file even with abobe 9

    Please supply screen shot when it is asking for updates. (Do not send as email, use CAMERA icon). This is important, there are many fake updates.

  • Why is my iphone 5 battery dying even with phone turned off ?

    Why is my iphone 5 battery dying even with phone turned off ? Even when my phone is fully charged and I turn it off when I turn it back on the battery is drained. Why ?

    Completely drained when turning the iPhone on after being off?
    All lithium-ion batteries lose some charge when the computer or device is powered off.
    If the battery is entirely depleted after the iPhone is powered off with a fully charged battery at the time, something is wrong - unless powered off for a number of weeks or months.

  • Why do I see ACR 3.1 even with Adobe Raw 4 updated?

    I just wonder why I see ACR 3.1, even though I have updated the camera raw to 4.x from Adobe update site...
    My photos are mostly raw files from my Nikon D2x.

    John is right. The 3.1 just tells you that color rendering information and other compatibility for your camera was first added to ACR at version 3.1. Lightroom is actually using the latest demosaic algorithm, not that which used to be current in ACR3.1. Also, be aware that Lightroom does NOT use ACR. It uses the same processing pipeline, but the photoshop plugin ACR is not at all used by Lightroom. You do not have to have ACR installed to run Lightroom and updating ACR does not update lightroom.

  • WHY CAN I NOT INSTALL THIS PROGRAM EVEN WITH A SERIAL NUMBER!?

    Hi. I just bought Adobe Presenter 10 (#AD015087786)... This is my first time buying this program. When I type in the serial number, it tells me that the serial number is valid, but that "a qualifying product" cannot be found on my computer. I currently have Microsoft Office 2013 installed on my computer too, what is the Adobe Installer talking about?

    It seems like that you have bought the upgrade version of Adobe Presenter 10. In order to purchase upgrade version you need to have previous version of Adobe Presenter. If you do not own previous version of Presenter then you have to request for a refund and purchase a full version of Adobe Presenter.You may provide me your contact details to process your request further as a private message.
    Regards,
    Rajeev.

  • Why is the Lion download incredibly slow even with a fast connection?

    Downloading Lion using a fast ethernet connection and I'm still getting a download time of 7 hours? It is niot my connection or machine.

    I think it depends on how busy the servers are, Kevin.  I've heard several reports like yours . . . I waited til last night about 11 pm, and it was fairly quick -- say about a half hour or so.  Try another time.

  • Why are the wi-fi speeds bad even with my own rout...

    When I connect with an Ethernet, I get amazing speed of 74/76mb download. but soon as i connect via wi-fi with the hub or my own router, speeds dropped till about 20/25mbs.. whats causing the problem, I have tried to change channels but to no effect.. 
    no question of the speed is great via the ethernet connection so i know there is no issue with the line or other wise, its just an wi-fi issue 
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    I've got a Netgear WNDR3700v2 and I get the same (using either band 5Ghz or 2.4Ghz), my throughput seems to max out at 29Mb/s (can get 34 if I turn off wireless encryption - but not prepared to do that)
    I don't generally use wi-fi for serious file transfers though, so it's not really a big concern for me but would be nice to hit full speed on wireless
    Download a copy of inSIDDer (http://www.metageek.net/)& have a look to see if your area is particuarly Wifi saturated

  • Why does my Iphone just turn off, even with a good charge?

    I got a small amount of moisture into my iphone and after it dried out I was unable to update the phone.  That was finally done and things seemed Ok however now the phone just shuts off at random times.  Any thoughts suggestions?

    Hi,
    Probably best to have Apple take a look at it. You can make an appointment at a Genius Bar in advance here.
    You could try restoring your iPhone. Instructions here.
    Carolyn  

  • Fan on all the time even with apps closed

    why is fan on all the time even with apps closed?

    try an SMC reset: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

  • New mac pro playback issues & sluggish

    got my new mac pro this week. wanted a fesh start, so didn't migrate anything. started by installing my must-have apps: adobe cc, ableton, apogee, fontexplorer, natove instrument komplete. everything worked great. then suddenly, when vreating a simple project in premiere, playback didn't work. and neither in quicktime nor itunes. started seeing the beachball in many apps, everything totally sluggish. started deleting apps, but nothing seemed to help. anybody had similar issues?

    My own remedy is more of the ounce of prevention:
    Clone the system so you have the nice vanilla system as it was backed up to another drive volume or sparse image.
    One person runs multiple copies of Mavericks in VMs using VMware Fusion to allow testing any changes first; restore a VM back to before changes, or to switch a VM to a boot image.
    Create a bootable clone of the system, before making changes, in case a system does go south, or just for testing.
    Sluggish is so common but generic, and how many apps run concurrently or have been tested to work even with 10.9.1 builds along with change to new hardware?
    The things we may not see or be aware of, might be like this one uncovered and mentioned on Ars:
    In our recent review of the late 2013 Mac Pro, one of our sticking points was the OpenGL performance that trailed Windows on the same hardware. A particularly damning case was the high-polygon-scene performance in Autodesk Maya showing how OpenGL viewport 2 performance fell off a cliff when you pushed into very high polygon counts of over 20 million with the D700 in OS X. 
    While this issue still needs to be resolved for some programs like modo, some quick sleuthing by Apple and AMD shows that the problem was on the Autodesk side. Maya was not simply querying the GPU RAM; for some reason, it was using a hard ceiling on OS X, so the brutal performance hit was the result of that ceiling. Once you explicitly tell Maya to use your available VRAM with the environment variable MAYA_OGS_GPU_MEMORY_LIMIT=6000 in ~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2014-x64/Maya.env, performance is perceptibly the same as in Windows in Boot Camp with very large scenes:
    If you have a GPU with more than 1GB of VRAM, I highly recommend setting this environment variable to your GPU's VRAM amount. This issue will reportedly be fixed in Maya 2015, but Maya is clearly an absolutely massive program with some annoying issues—here is my blog post on how to fix Maya performance when the Help Line is visible in OS X.
    So, fellow Maya users, I just need to implicate Apple in another 17,000-word article about our other bugs, and we'll have them fixed in no time! This brings us to the question of why I thought to blame this on drivers and not the Mac Maya version to begin with. It's odd that this Mac-only hard-coded VRAM amount existed at all because Maya is very much the same beast on all platforms, and from my knowledge of it as a beta tester, platforms don't get specific attention for tuning, and that's the case for the dominant platform as well. That's why I assumed that this was a driver bug and not Maya-specific.
    Anyway, we'd like to thank AMD and Apple for their quick work with Autodesk to resolve this issue. We'll be updating the review today to account for this new information.
    http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/02/2013-mac-pro-firepro-d700-opengl-is-better- than-we-thought-it-was/
    I don't always follow my own advice, sometimes it works out, sometimes not, but any OS like Apple's needs a couple updates, and any new hardware needs some firmware revision, chips, changes in production, and time to ah "field test" new system in the real world.

  • Period account closing bal includes cumul movements, even with a rule.WHY?!

    Hello chaps, I've been struggling with this for a few days now and I'm going to have admit defeat. :(
    I'm trying to do two things.
    1. View periodic balance sheet movements
    2. Get the correct custom closing balance to roll up once I've done 1 (in Periodic view)
    What I've done.
    For Point 1. I use the SwitchTypeForFlow attribute on the flow members. This let's me see the balance sheet movements in Periodic view. Great.
    Which leads me onto Point 2. Whilst I can now see the balance sheet movements in Periodic view, the closing balance (the parent of Opening + increases - decreases) does not total correctly. Instead of adding the Opening + increases - decreases for ONE period, It adds them for ALL the previous periods.
    Ok, so to get round that, I thought I'd just create a new member called "ClosingBal" and override what HFM is doing. I'll now have two rules. The "OpeningBal" is just the closing balance of last period. "ClosingBal" is just the sum of opening + increases - decreases for the period. So here are the two simple rules
    HS.Exp "C1#OpeningBal=C1#ClosingBal.P#Prior"
    HS.Exp "C1#ClosingBal=C1#OpeningBal+C1#increases-C1#decreases"
    But when I do this, even with the rule, it STILL adds up the cumulative increases and decreases for all prior periods as well, not just the ones for the period. Why is it doing that? All I want is my closing balance in that one period to be equal to opening balance + increases - decreases. It works fine in YTD view, but not Periodic view. I need it to work in Periodic view
    any help much appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Sal

    Sal,
    There is no solution here that allows the user to simpley change the View member from Periodic to YTD, keeping all else the same, and get your desired result. However, you could create a solution that when a user wants Periodic numbers he/she would select the Periodic View member and then select a unique ClosingBal member (eg. 'ClosingBalPer') and a unique OpenBal member (eg. 'OpenBalPeriodic'). When the user wants YTD numbers he/she would select the YTD View member and then select a different and also unique ClosingBal member (eg. 'ClosingBalYTD') and a different and also unique OpenBal member (eg. 'OpenBalYTD').
    Here you would have 2 different rules for you opening balances:
    HS.Exp "C1#OpeningBalPer=C1#ClosingBal.P#Prior"
    HS.Exp "C1#OpeningBalYTD=C1#ClosingBal.P#Last.Y#Prior"
    And your ClosingBal rules would look like this:
    HS.Exp "C1#ClosingBalPer=C1#OpeningBalPer+C1#increases-C1#decreases"
    HS.Exp "C1#ClosingBalYTD=C1#OpeningBalYTD+C1#increases-C1#decreases"
    In regards to the ClosingBal rules, these aren't necessary if you make the ClosingBal member a parent of the other members. If 'decreases' need to be subtracted then they should be flagged as 'SwithSignForFlow'.
    With this solution if a user selected YTD with the Periodic members or Periodic with the YTD members then their numbers wouldn't make sense so there would be some user eduction involved with this solution.

  • I hate the new operating system. Can't connect to wifi in home anymore even after a restore. Rhapsody no longer works on my phone either. Plus the brighth graphics are bothering my eyes even with brightness turned down. Any ideas on why rhapsody doesn't w

    I hate the new operating system. Can't connect to wifi in home anymore even after a restore. Rhapsody no longer works on my phone either. Plus the brighth graphics are bothering my eyes even with brightness turned down. Any ideas on why rhapsody doesn't why rhapsody doesn't work anymore?

    Contact Rhapsody to see if they have or plan to release an update for the app. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Have you tried resetting your device by pressing and holding the Home button and power button until the silver apple appears?

  • Why can't I connect to my  iphone5 with my iPad, Snote2 or another iPhone5  through wifi as a hotspot, only through Bluetooth?  My Snote2 can't even find the iphone5 as a hotspot.

    Why can't I connect to my  iphone5 with my iPad, Snote2 or another iPhone5  through wifi as a hotspot, only through Bluetooth?  My Snote2 can't even find the iphone5 as a hotspot, even on Bluetooth.
    I've reset, restored and updated everything but no go.

    WiFi is preferable for use as a hotspot to Bluetooth.
    Have you tried Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings?
    If you have and it didn't work I would take the iPhone in for service.

  • Macpro dual core xeon.  Why can I not download Lion even with snow leopard 10.6.8 already as sysyem?

    macpro dual core xeon January 2008  Why can I not download Lion even with snow leopard 10.6.8 already as sysyem?

    If you need to purchase Lion call 1-800-692-7753 or 1-800-676-2775. Ask for a Sales Representative. They will check your Apple ID, and email you a code and instructions.  The cost is $29.99 (as it was before) plus tax.  It's a download.

  • Why does my iMessage not work even with my apple ID signed in?

    Why does my iMessage not work even with my apple ID signed in?

    Using FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4319
    Troubleshooting FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3367
    The Complete Guide to FaceTime + iMessage: Setup, Use, and Troubleshooting
    http://tinyurl.com/a7odey8
    Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268
    iOS: FaceTime is 'Unable to verify email because it is in use'
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3510
    Using FaceTime and iMessage behind a firewall
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4245
    iOS: About Messages
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529
    Set up iMessage
    http://www.apple.com/ca/ios/messages/
    iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
    How to Set Up & Use iMessage on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch with iOS
    http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/set-up-imessage-on-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-with-io s-5/
    Troubleshooting Messages
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755
    Troubleshooting iMessage Issues: Some Useful Tips You Should Try
    http://www.igeeksblog.com/troubleshooting-imessage-issues/
    Setting Up Multiple iOS Devices for iMessage and Facetime
    http://macmost.com/setting-up-multiple-ios-devices-for-messages-and-facetime.htm l
    FaceTime and iMessage not accepting Apple ID password
    http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/facetime-and-imessage-not-acc epting-apple-id-password/
    FaceTime, Game Center, Messages: Troubleshooting sign in issues
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3970
    Unable to use FaceTime and iMessage with my apple ID
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4649373?tstart=90
    How to Block Someone on FaceTime
    http://www.ehow.com/how_10033185_block-someone-facetime.html
    My Facetime Doesn't Ring
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/19087457
    Send an iMessage as a Text Message Instead with a Quick Tap & Hold
    http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/18/send-imessage-as-text-message/
    To send messages to non-Apple devices, check out the TextFree app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/text-free-textfree-sms-real/id399355755?mt=8
    How to Send SMS from iPad
    http://www.iskysoft.com/apple-ipad/send-sms-from-ipad.html
    You can check the status of the FaceTime/iMessage servers at this link.
    http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
     Cheers, Tom
    BTW- Your profile shows you have iOS 6.1.4 installed. The max iOS for an iPad is 6.1.3. iOS 6.1.4 is for iPhones only.

Maybe you are looking for