• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How to Allocate more RAM to PPro

  Posted by Hunter Hempen on September 3, 2011 at 5:54 am

  Title is self explanatory.

  I found this sorry excuse for a thread, https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/882359 , and was wondering if anybody knows how to allocate more RAM to CS4 PPro…

  Hopefully this can be resolved directly.

  Thanks,
  Hunter

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  Todd Kopriva replied 14 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  September 3, 2011 at 11:21 pm

  Hi Hunter,

  An option is available in the CS5 preferences to leave RAM for other programs, I don’t remember it being available in CS4. Premiere should use all the RAM that’s available to it. I have 16 gigs and all of it gets used with multithreading enabled.

  You haven’t really mentioned the system you are working on, 32bit (limited to 4 Gigs) /64 bit, Mac / PC.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Hunter Hempen

  September 4, 2011 at 6:27 pm

  Oh yes, sorry. It’s Windows Vista, 64-bit, 4GB RAM, plus 1GB Video RAM Nvidia Graphics card.

  I’ve seen some people adjust the priority of PPro in the Task Manager Processes tab…but I never thought that actually did anything, or at least not any noticeable performance changes.

  Thanks,
  Hunter

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  -Gaff
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 4, 2011 at 9:10 pm

  Premiere Pro CS4 is a 32-bit application and therefore can only use a small amount of RAM. That was one of the main reasons for the 64-bit port for Premiere Pro CS5.

  So the answer for Premiere Pro CS4 is, basically, no.

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