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Ram needed to run Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
How much RAM is needed to run Adobe Premiere Pro CS3? I have 0.99 RAM on my desktop computer.
The reason I ask is because I’m having trouble using it. When I click on the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 link on my desktop it takes several seconds for it to come up. Plus, when I click record, when I’m attempting to record a clip from my camcorder, it starts recording after about 1.5 seconds.
Gene
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12 Replies
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XP 2 gigs, Vista 4 gigs
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Well, even with Vista (Ultimate in my case) you may be able to run things smoothly with just 2 GIGs, unless you go into uncompressed HD. I am able to edit 1080P DVCProHD under 1.5 Gigs with Premiere and Photoshop open (Don’t go start AE now…)
For uncompressed HD, you’ll have to look at the Xeon line first.
Vince
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So the stories about Vista and high-end Adobe stuff being
a real pain to work with is false?PProCS3 does DVCProHD codec?
D.
x-gf.com
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Well, I didn’t get into this part. My experience with Vista and CS3 has actually been relatively painless, but I may have gotten lucky . This was a brand new laptop built for Vista (they say), but we only use it for field editing, and to monitor with OnLocation (which does have some minor issues with Vista itself), but many other machines may still not have fully compatible drivers.
I certainly wouldn’t recommend it for a solid workstation. Unfortunately for our laptop, the HDMI output we use for monitoring wouldn’t work with XP.Yes, Premiere(CS3) now supports native DVCPro & DVCPro HD (with the 3.1 update).
Vince
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That’s good news about DVCProHD support.
D.
x-gf.com
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Hi Vincent:
Reason I recommend 4gigs is that its a desktop, and only god will know whats running on it with the way computers come configured today, plus ram is getting cheaper than dirt. -
Agreed, especially if that’s not dedicated to editing.
I guess what I really meant to say was 🙂
It’s probably not worth adding that much RAM on a CPU that comes with 1 Gig to start with, although you’re right about it being cheap. Not even sure if he can add 4 Gigs, many Pentium systems capped at 2 Gigs.
I’m guessing it may be a Pentium 4 or eq, and a new computer will almost certainly require a different type of Ram.
Gene, you can find out what’s needed by doing a Ctr-Alt-Del, and go to performance. See what’s going on when things freeze up. I have a feeling it may actually be the CPU running at 100%, but I’m sure some of your Ram is being pulled from the hard Drive as well.
Vince
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Hi Vincent:
Since no further info was give outside of the ram ammount currently on board, and the question was how much for CS3, 2 or 4 would be a standard answer coming under the heading of a WAG 😉 -
well, I’m not easily stumped, but you got me with that acronym 🙂
Vince
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WAG = Wild Azz Guess
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