Video Guys has a good post as to why to chose NVIDIA and Quadro for the creative Cloud.
Personally I want to see a really good Quadro vs GeForce comparison, especially something like a GTX Titan, and throw in AMD as well to see the OpenCL performance and really see which is best.
Rich Young at PVC is reporting on this and how to install it if you have Creative Cloud.
Personally I hate this. DVD Studio Pro is already dead, and ancient and now Adobe’s disc making software is gone too. Sure we can use the old version, but it will never be updated again? That really sucks! This is a very Apple ish move, and I personally don’t like it. Yes digital delivery is huge now, but there is still a time and place for disc based media as it looks better, and with 4K on the horizon, it will be sticking around in one form or another for a long time.
David Torno at the ProVideo Coaltion has released more lessons on After Effects ExtendScript.
11 is on building a floating gui
And the 2 part 12 is on building a Dockable GUI
I couldn’t locate the option in Photoshop, so I started searching and found the answer on one of Adobe’s Blogs.
Note: we removed the option in preferences to point to a “Additional Plug-Ins Folder” in Photoshop CC as it caused more problems than it solved.
Now here is something I completely don’t agree with as this folder made it so much easier to upgrade versions, as you could keep your 3rd party plug ins in a separate folder, and just point the new version at them. SO MUCH EASIER THAN HAVING TO GO THROUGH YOUR PLUG INS FOLDER EVER UPGRADE AND MIGRATE STUFF! Annoying adobe, very annoying!
And this is why I worry about the new MacPro. OpenCL acceleration is not nearly as fast as CUDA on the PC, and the Mac has always had a far inferior OpenCL installation. Multi GPU’s are incredibly hard to code for and only give moderate performance enhancements on even the most mutli-GPU aware games on the PC, so they are only for the most hard core of gamers. The only exception to this is a Maximus configuration from NVIDIA which is a Quadro with a TESTLA card (the non-consumer version of a Titan), which has incredible power and speed and really can use both processors. This all leaves the new MacPro in the code. Most software won’t be coded for multiple AMD GPU’s and even if they are the performance increases are usually pretty modest, and OpenCL can’t touch CUDA! So why made a new “pro” machine without the option for CUDA? The only argument I can see if form over function, and that seems to be what the new MacPro is all about!
Premiere Pro did it fine, but After Effects CC would not do it, and strangely the 670 isn’t listed in supported GPU’s but I got it to work.
And though it was in India, I had less trouble understanding them this time. Of course they didn’t actually help. Had me boot as root and the apps launched there (only bridge would launch otherwise), and said it was an issue with my user folder and they wouldn’t help with that! I should call Apple! WTF! No help with conflicts of their software which I am paying a monthly fee to use? Now that is shitty support!
Here is my crash report fro dynamiclinkmanager, which I am going to link to from Adobe, and see if anyone can begin to help. I need time so I can call India, I mean Adobe Tech Support, but I just don’t have enough time in the day.
Here is the crash report for Premiere Pro and Adobe Dynamic Link Mananger in a txt file.
Here is the crash report for Photoshop. It is in a text file.
Here is my Photoshop error message:
Here is my Illustrator Error Message:
Here is my After Effects Error Message:
I have posted the problem on the Adobe Forums, but not gotten any response.
I will have to call Adobe Tech support, which I dread, as it is always in India and hard to understand and not always that helpful. Plus with working 12 hour days and driving 2 hours I don’t get much time at home.
In fact, the only application in the entire suite that will launch is Bridge CC. Every single app has a different problem when it launches, but none of them will launch.