• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Windows XP or Vista Ultimate, the best option for CS4?

  Posted by George Peters on November 5, 2008 at 11:11 am

  I am still not sure if I will switch to Final Cut and Color (due to some of Colors resrictions and renders) or stay with Premiere.

  Anyway, I have read that CS4 is optimized for 64bit… but Windows XP is just 32 bit. And XP 64 bit in not an option due to missing drivers. That leaves me with Vista, yuck. 🙁

  I had Vista home Premium installed in one of my personal computers, and it was so buggy and problematic that I uninstalled it and went back to XP. And I have heard a lot of complains about Vista, so I don´t take lightly on the decision to jump to Vista on my editing computer. Unless there are great benefits from doing so.

  What do you guys say? What would be the best OS to use with Premiere Pro CS4, should I stay with XP Professional and 4GB memory or should I make the jump to Vista Ultimate and 8GB memory since it is 64 bit and can use more memory?

  I will edit mjpeg compressed HD files at maximum quality settings (or some other HQ codec), both 720p and 1080p.

  Elijah Wood replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  November 5, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Vista SP1 really isn’t buggy. Just don’t put the computer to sleep…

  The only problem I have with Vista is that they redesigned it so that it takes 2 more clicks to do the same thing. I’ve seen almost not crashes in CS3.

  Vince Becquiot
  Director | Editor

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Elijah Wood

  November 6, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Hi, using Vista Home Premium 32bit and Vista Business 64bit both with CS3 right now. No problems. Will be upgrading to CS4 this month and will be putting that on Vista Business 64bit. I believe CS4 does not support XP64bit, best to go check the system requirements if you are hoping for XP64bit.

  HTH.

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