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  • Tue, Aug 5 2008 4:46 PM

    • dougd71
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    Accelerated Effects in MC 3? (ACPL)

    does anyone know which effects are [GPU] accelerated in MC 3?

    After reading this post: http://community.avid.com/forums/p/60366/338388.aspx

    and enterting AcplGpuEffects true into the Console, i discovered that Avid defaults to turning ACPL effects off for my GForce 8800GTS.  But if I turn it on manually, I don't see any noticeable difference in performance. 

    on a side note, i noticed that in an HDV project, I can get 5 streams to play in PIP in full green mode without dropping frames.  But if I have only 1 stream of video, and I use the Avid 3D effect, the video starts to stutter....even if I'm just doing a simple crop....this doesn't seem right for some reason especially since i'm only showing CPU utilization at about 33%.

     

     

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  • Tue, Aug 5 2008 4:54 PM In reply to

    • dor
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    Re: Accelerated Effects in MC 3? (ACPL)

     Hi

    I can guess ACPL will render 3D effects faster.

    btw: How did you overclock your Q9450?

    MC 3.0.5 + MOJO SDI. Q9450+4GB RAM. 8800GT. XP PRO SP3 [view my complete system specs]

     

  • Tue, Aug 5 2008 4:58 PM In reply to

    Re: Accelerated Effects in MC 3? (ACPL)

     "But if I turn it on manually, I don't see any noticeable difference in performance"

    That's what I'd expect.  Avid software is written to take advantage of the OGL in the Quadro FX series cards.

     

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  • Tue, Aug 5 2008 6:26 PM In reply to

    • dougd71
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    Re: Accelerated Effects in MC 3? (ACPL)

    my motherboard has a bunch of overclocking options.  it was quite easy actually....and i have to say the difference between 3.4 and the stock 2.66 is readily apparent.

    Asus P5Q Pro, Q9450 overclocked to 3.4Ghz, 4GB Ram, 4 Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB drives in Raid-0, P182 Case, Corsair 620HX PSU, MSI 8800 GTS 512MB, Vista64... [view my complete system specs]
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