Is my PC strong enough for Premiere Pro?
 

I'm very sorry that I'm making this topic, I hope I don't get flamed to much, but I'm already running late for work and didn't have time to do a search :)

I have a

P4 2.6ghz
80gig HD
(going to buy another 120gig soon)
768mb RAM

WIN XP

I want to get Premiere Pro for my DCR-VX2100, is this the type of computer that would be strong enough? And does the demo reflect the purchase copy of Premiere, if so I'm sure that might give me my answers but I'm not to sure...

Thx again.

I have almost your same setup (p4 2.4 gighz) with 1 gig of RD ram and premiere pro feels sluggish on my PC. Premiere pro was really designed for the user with a high end studio setup IMO. I would strongly take a look at Vegas Video 4. Coming from an ex-premiere ADVOCATE, Vegas Video on a consumer level PC is truly an amazing program - it's what I cut my DVX100a footage with.

I ran Pro on a system similar to that (2.6) only I had a gig of RAM. I just recently got a new editor (a 2.8) and the old machine is now the DVD authoring station.

You'll be fine.

So one person says it'll be sluggish and one says it'll be just fine. The war is on! lol, does Vegas have as good as plugins as Premiere Pro?

blah, didn't think picking editing software would be so damn tough, lol

FYI: I run PPro on an Intel 2.8C (800MHz front side bus) with a "decrepit" video card (GeForce 2) and 1GB dual-channel RAM. Runs like a charm. When I had only 512Mb, though, it would stutter (swap to disk) if I tried to run more than one program at once.

How come whenever someone mentions something about Premiere, someone *always* chimes in saying they should give Vegas a try?!? :)

I run PP at 2.8ghz and 512RAM, it runs ok but it does have the occasional slowness, so I would say you should be ok.

I almost always mention Vegas simply because I used to be a stubborn Premiere Advocate until I was forced to check out Vegas due to my 24p dvx. Premiere Pro will run fine on your computer, I just am OCD with responsiveness of programs. Any little pause here and there with normal tasks really bothers the crap out of me when I consider my computer on the faster end (getting slower though). Vegas has not given me any of these little pauses with normal tasks as Premiere Pro did. Both are great programs, you know my choice, best of luck to you!

Yes, the demo should be a pretty good indication how both
programs will run on your system. Try them both out!

Thx for all your guys help, it's appreciated...

One last thing, a 80gig HD should be good enough right? I can't seem to find that answer anywhere, or is it better to have more then 80gigs?

Hey Jay, I have 60 gigs and have the entire Video Collection installed. But that said, If you plan to any amount of editing, space is eaten up quickly. I went out and bought another 160 gig drive that I use just for footage and project files.

BTW I have an Athlon 2600 with 512 meg of memory. As long as I run one Adobe app at a time I am ok. It is slow at times but no problems.

Thanks

Joe

I have a 2.8 GHz P4 with 512 meg of RAM. Pro runs fine on my system. You might want to try overclocking. I recently tried pushing the P4 to 2.99 GHz and it runs fine -- it's stable and doesn't overheat. This is usually a simple BIOS setting in more modern machines.

As for the 80-gig drive, that's not a lot of room. DV is about 13 gig/hour, but you need additional room for rendering, transcoding, etc. I consider 80 gig the bare minimum to do any serious editing. Adding the 120-gig will make a big difference.

Make sure you set Pro to use the second drive as the scratch disk -- it will slow the program down considerably if set to the same drive as the OS and the executables.

I will often have Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop all open at the same time without any trouble.

As for the HD space, you'll always be growing this. So there's not an answer to the question, "Is this enough?" The question should be, "Is this enough to start?"

And 80 is fine to start, but keep your eye out for good HD sales.

Running PPro on a 2.53 with 1gig ram and 120 gig HD. Works fine, but am also using the RTX100 and wouldn't consider editing without it.

Kent

Hi, I use 2.6 with 120 gig HD and 1 gig of ram and premiere Pro works fine. Its a lot faster and smoother than 6.5 and is the best thing I have done making the move up. It lets me use all the real time effects and transitions and I use it to produce TV commercials.

2.26 Ghz P4, 768 meg PC800 RDRAM, both Premiere Pro and Vegas run fine on it..........

2 Ghz P4, 768 meg 2x80gb never had any problems running premiere pro

I'm thinking about upgrading from Premiere 6.0 to PPro 1.5 when it hits the shelfs.. Do you think my computer with the following specs can hold up?

Win XP Pro SP1
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
1024MB DDR RAM
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti200 (64mb)
Dedicated editing hardware:
Pinnacle Edition DV500 DVD

(go to the link for info about DV500)
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/docloader_n.asp?templ=10&doclink=/WebVideo/dv500dvd/English(UK)/doc/keys.htm&Product_ID=564&Langue_ID=2&loc=spec&division_id=

I am beginning to wonder whether this hardware actually boosts my workflow or not.. Is it perhaps a bit outdated? In other words, would my computer alone do a better job in your opinion?

edit: sorry for bringing up an old thread..

Andreas,

You will not be able to use Premiere Pro with your DV500. Pinnacle has stopped supporting Premiere. They have stopped producing the driver’s because they want to push their pinnacle liquid range of NLEs.

You can still use Premiere Pro on your system; it just means that you won't get the hardware support from your DV500 card. But then again PP has more real-time support than ever before, so you would probably not notice any difference. You will still need a firewire card to capture and playback in PP.

Your system should be OK. However you might want to upgrade your processor to something a bit larger. Adobe recommends a 3.0Ghz

Please see this link for adobes spec:

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs.html

Hope this helps,

Ok, thanks a lot for the answer.
I didn't know that Pinnacle had stopped supporting Premiere.
It would have come as a shock and been a big disappointment to find that out afterwards, so thanks again.

Will the Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro work with PP 1.5 and/or will it improve/lessen the editing capabilities of my pc?

Hey I have Premiere 6.0 and Premiere Pro running on the same computer and I have the DV500 card and I switch between the programs and it works just fine oh and your setup is totally fine. I don't know what most of these guys are talking about I've seen Premiere Pro run on a P3 1 Ghz comp with pc133 ram and it ran it fine

I run premier pro 1.5 perfectly fine on my system.
P4 (2.4ghz) - 7200rpm seagate hd - 704mb dedicated RAM - 64mb video memory.

Yeah, I have a 2.66GHz P4, 160GB, 1GB Ram, it runs fine on my computer, not sluggish at all. I think what you lose and gain more in slower and faster systems is the rendering time, you won't notice a difference in your comptuer as much just editing, but rendering you will notice a time difference if you have a slower comptuer and such.