Revealing Production Premium CS6

[Subhadip Sen]

Here's a scenario - Macbook Pro 15, HD 6770M running Premiere CS6 on Windows thru Bootcamp. Will it support OpenCL? If yes, then would a HD 6770M Thinkpad?

I am not sure if you can comment on this, but worth a try - when can we expect OpenCL acceleration to expand to other AMD GPUs, such as the HD 7970? Surely soon (6.0.1 patch?) as the HD 6770M and HD 6750M are effectively EOL?

[Todd Kopriva]

GPU processing (Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration) using OpenCL works on exactly and only these systems:
AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 1GB VRAM in MacBook Pro computers running Mac OSX v10.7

[Lliam Worthington]

Hi Todd, I asked before but received no feedback. Are there any plans on expanding to work with AMD 6970M?

[Todd Kopriva]

> Are there any plans on expanding to work with AMD 6970M?

Look at what what we did for CUDA cards: Started with a very small number and added support for more as time went on and we got specific requests.

You can make requests here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

[Robino_J]

This announcement is potentially saving me thousands of dollars as I was going to buy a Mac Pro and CUDA card. Buying a out of date Mac Pro for $3500 + all the other stuff needed was not very enticing to me. Of course I might have to break at one point in order to install a Rocket in my workflow but in the meantime I am hoping CS6 running on MBP 17", SSD and 16GBram will make my life easier. Hoping for a Mac Pro refresh soon but it's looking grim.

[Lliam Worthington]

Thanks Todd. Request made. CS6 looks to be a truly amazing release. Almost makes me want to part with my money as quickly as RED does :))

Best

Lliam

[Les C.]

This announcement is potentially saving me thousands of dollars as I was going to buy a Mac Pro and CUDA card. Buying a out of date Mac Pro for $3500 + all the other stuff needed was not very enticing to me. Of course I might have to break at one point in order to install a Rocket in my workflow but in the meantime I am hoping CS6 running on MBP 17", SSD and 16GBram will make my life easier. Hoping for a Mac Pro refresh soon but it's looking grim.

Consider a PC instead. I own a Mac Pro as well as Win7 machines, and the Win7 boxes give me the choice of any video card, greater speed, more slots, etc. - all for less money. A power supply goes out, I just plug in a spare myself - and I'm not limited to the power supplies offered by Apple, thus ... more power. The 3rd party additions such as Directory Opus file manager replacement as opposed to Path Finder on OSX are light years ahead. Just saying, keep and open mind.

[Subhadip Sen]

Thanks for the information, Todd. I have made a request, eagerly awaiting OpenCL acceleration on Windows across the GCN architecture / Radeon HD 7000 range. The HD 7970 is the overwhelming compute champion as benchmarks like these prove. More relevantly, the performance in Vegas Pro 11 (OpenCL) is nothing short of spectacular compared to the likes of GTX 580.

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

Great advancements, one thins about speed grade which I couldn't see in the spec sheet, does it have a motion tracker to track vignettes over any moving object etc..??
also the workflow of DPX rendering from ppro to sg is interesting but, couldn't fully understand what really works and what doesn't..?

[Manuel López Pérez]

Great advancements, one thins about speed grade which I couldn't see in the spec sheet, does it have a motion tracker to track vignettes over any moving object etc..??
also the workflow of DPX rendering from ppro to sg is interesting but, couldn't fully understand what really works and what doesn't..?

Yes, SG have a tracker for masks. Send to Speedgrade creates a sequence of DPXs and a SG project, is the same what you render the sequence and save a EDL for conforming in SG, but in this case without EDL, it's more fast and painless.