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Joyce Mahoney · July 11th, 2006, 05:57 PM

Has anyone noticed that FCP renders Magic Bullet much faster than Premiere Pro and if you have, can you tell me if this is a problem with Premiere or Magic Bullet?

Graham Hickling · July 12th, 2006, 07:35 AM

PPro2.0 is much faster than PPro1.5 with MB (although perhaps you may need an appropriate graphics card to see that speedup ... not 100% sure about that).

Which version of PPro, and which graphics card, do you have?

Jonathan Ames · July 12th, 2006, 11:06 AM

We're having the same issues and we're using PP2.0 and a Matrox rt card

Glenn Chan · July 13th, 2006, 12:29 PM

On PCs, Magic Bullet can use Nvidia video cards to render faster (GPU acceleration). I don't think it works with ATI cards on PC.
The Mac situation is reversed, except FCP can't do any GPU acceleration at all.

I don't consider the Matrox RT to be a video card (semantics). When I say video card, I'm not talking about cards like the Matrox RT (which can't/don't do GPU acceleration).

Graham Hickling · July 13th, 2006, 12:33 PM

That makes sense ... I have PPro2 and an Nvidia 6600GT and although I can't compare it to FCP speedwise, it is certainly much faster than the previous version of MB was with PPro1.5.

July 11th, 2006, 05:57 PM	#1
Joyce Mahoney Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 42	Magic Bullet Has anyone noticed that FCP renders Magic Bullet much faster than Premiere Pro and if you have, can you tell me if this is a problem with Premiere or Magic Bullet?

July 12th, 2006, 07:35 AM	#2
Graham Hickling Trustee Join Date: May 2004 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Posts: 1,669	PPro2.0 is much faster than PPro1.5 with MB (although perhaps you may need an appropriate graphics card to see that speedup ... not 100% sure about that). Which version of PPro, and which graphics card, do you have?

July 12th, 2006, 11:06 AM	#3
Jonathan Ames 2nd Unit TV Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 509	We're having the same issues and we're using PP2.0 and a Matrox rt card

July 13th, 2006, 12:29 PM	#4
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	On PCs, Magic Bullet can use Nvidia video cards to render faster (GPU acceleration). I don't think it works with ATI cards on PC. The Mac situation is reversed, except FCP can't do any GPU acceleration at all. I don't consider the Matrox RT to be a video card (semantics). When I say video card, I'm not talking about cards like the Matrox RT (which can't/don't do GPU acceleration).

July 13th, 2006, 12:33 PM	#5
Graham Hickling Trustee Join Date: May 2004 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Posts: 1,669	That makes sense ... I have PPro2 and an Nvidia 6600GT and although I can't compare it to FCP speedwise, it is certainly much faster than the previous version of MB was with PPro1.5.