• Adobe Premiere Pro

  what part of my PC should i upgrade

  Posted by Yossi Forkush on September 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm

  Hi

  i am using Premiere Pro CS5 7.2
  and i do a lot of filtering and footage cleaning,
  what part of my hardware should i upgrade
  to help the render go faster?

  Yossi

  Alex Campbell replied 14 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  September 22, 2011 at 7:52 pm

  Hi Yossi,

  That’s going to be a really hard question to answer, especially without knowing what you already have. Upgrading your RAM could be a good thing, however, you have a slow drive, an old CPU, graphics card, or motherboard, they then become the bottle neck in your system.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Yossi Forkush

  September 23, 2011 at 2:38 am

  Hi Vince.

  this is my systems hardware:
  CPU- Intel Core i5 660@3.33
  RAM- DDR3 8GB HyperX 1600Mhz CL9
  GRAPHICS- Nvidia GTX 470
  VIDEO STORAGE – 500GB 16MB SATA III 6GB/s AAKX 7200 Blue WD

  Yossi
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 23, 2011 at 5:51 am

  If you read and view the resources pointed to from here, you’ll have a good idea of what you need:
  “FAQ: What computer and components should I buy for Premiere Pro…?”

  At a glance, I’d say that your first order of business is to get another disk drive and then some more RAM.

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  Yossi Forkush

  September 23, 2011 at 9:52 am

  Hi Adobe

  i am intrested more on speeding up my rendering of filters.
  i work on HD footage and plugins like Boris and Sphire
  and 5 minutes of footage with noise cleaning and Colorist
  might take up to 25 hours to render.
  how can i shorten the time?

  Yossi
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  Alex Campbell

  September 28, 2011 at 7:17 pm

  I would ensure that CS5 is recognizing your video card first. Second, buy more RAM. It is VERY cheap for 16GB now.
  Last, the thing that sped up my work a lot was using 2 7200 RPM drives in RAID 0 for my scratch disks and footage. I save my project on a RAID1 NAS as well with the backups of my project, but for less than $100 you can have 2x 7200 RPM 500GB drives in a RAID 0 setup. This would equal 1TB of storage. A couple tips are to ONLY use these drives for scratch and storage of your current projects and that you NEED to keep another drive with a project backup.

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