R9 285 and Premiere Pro

[Stephen Bull]

Can I get OpenCL GPU acceleration with Premiere pro (Win8 64-bit) without having Eyefinity turned on ?

With Eyefinity turned OFF, Premiere says GPU acceleration not available and resorts to Software only.

Having eyefinity on is annoying because I have two screens and all dialog boxes appear in the middle when the bezels meet so need dragging over every time, but having eyefinity turned on appears to be the only way to tell Premiere Pro that I have OpenCL capable card.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

GPU acceleration as in CUDA? That is exclusive to NVIDIA I believe - the mercury playback engine is optimised for CUDA and then OpenCL. This is actually a well known issue but there is no proper solution to the best of my knowledge.

 

[Stephen Bull]

Thanks for taking the time. to respond. I always thought CUDA was the only way to accelaration, but after a bit of reasearch, apparently Adobe and AMD are getting very cosy and OpenCL is the Radeon version and it works very well.

Well, I have made another discovery. I fired up my PC today and realised I hadn't turned off Eyefinity. Fired up Premiere Pro and to my dismay saw the "GPU Acceleration not available" message appear despite eye-finity being on.

I then I had a thought. Closed down Premiere, turned OFF Eye-finity and fired up Premiere Pro. Bingo GPU Acceleration available with Eye-Finity turned off.

I will test it a bit more, but it looks like Premiere pro doesn't recognise the card straight after boot up until I have flicked eye-finity off or on. I will check some of the settings and see if I can pinpoint the issue.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Thanks for taking the time. to respond. I always thought CUDA was the only way to accelaration, but after a bit of reasearch, apparently Adobe and AMD are getting very cosy and OpenCL is the Radeon version and it works very well.

Well, I have made another discovery. I fired up my PC today and realised I hadn't turned off Eyefinity. Fired up Premiere Pro and to my dismay saw the "GPU Acceleration not available" message appear despite eye-finity being on.

I then I had a thought. Closed down Premiere, turned OFF Eye-finity and fired up Premiere Pro. Bingo GPU Acceleration available with Eye-Finity turned off.

I will test it a bit more, but it looks like Premiere pro doesn't recognise the card straight after boot up until I have flicked eye-finity off or on. I will check some of the settings and see if I can pinpoint the issue.

Great. Please keep us updated, I am intrigued as to why this is happening.

 

[Stephen Bull]

I think i have solved it, it was nothing to do with the catalyst drivers, it is simply the first time I fire up Premiere pro the error message appears and the OpenCL option is not availiabe in the project render settings. If I then close it down and load premiere pro up again, the message dosn't appear and all is well.

It took me a while because I would get the message, fiddle around with graphic options etc. and then when i re-loaded it the problem had gone so i thought the changes I made where the answer. When i made the changes first and then still got the error message, i realised what was going on.

So it is premiere Pro not recognising the card when i first load it up. Not sure how to get rid of the message but at least I know how to get around the problem.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

I think i have solved it, it was nothing to do with the catalyst drivers, it is simply the first time I fire up Premiere pro the error message appears and the OpenCL option is not availiabe in the project render settings. If I then close it down and load premiere pro up again, the message dosn't appear and all is well.

It took me a while because I would get the message, fiddle around with graphic options etc. and then when i re-loaded it the problem had gone so i thought the changes I made where the answer. When i made the changes first and then still got the error message, i realised what was going on.

So it is premiere Pro not recognising the card when i first load it up. Not sure how to get rid of the message but at least I know how to get around the problem.

Ah. Interesting, I will remember this if I switch to AMD GPUs in the future.