CS5 not playing well w Internet Security Installed

[Todd Kopriva]

I don’t know how to disable anything in your specific security application, but I can confirm that anti-virus software can interfere with many kinds of software, including Premiere Pro. Some security software scans each write to the hard disk, to make sure that there’s nothing dangerous being written or changed. This can _really_ slow down software that does a lot of writing to disk.

My recommendation is to disable this sort of software but to make very, very sure that you don’t engage in any activities that might endanger your computer when it’s in this less-protected state. In other words, just use your editing computer for editing, and only visit safe websites (if any) from that computer.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
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[Dave Johnson]

Just to reaffirm Todd’s always good advice, you might consider that, for the very reasons Todd described, it’s only in recent years that many video editors have even started using NLE workstations for anything other than video editing and directly related tasks (mograph, etc.) … for a larger portion of the time I’ve spent in the business, most NLEs weren’t even connected to the internet at all, nor otherwise treated as a “regular” computer.

[Brent Dunn]

My main workstations are not connected. Except my Mac Pro. On a Mac, I never have to install security. 🙂 Gotta luv a Mac.

But I had to go to the darkside and buy an HP Laptop. This is my mobile editing machine, but also my travel companion for connection while on the road. I’ll have to find a way to disable it while editing. I know there is a way, but I haven’t found it yet.

Thanks for the input.

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1, V1U
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut Studio

HP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite

[Dave Johnson]

Since you referred to “Internet Security”, I’ll assume you mean Symantec’s Norton Internet Security suite, which is what I use.

You can disable any recent version of NIS and/or NAV, by right clicking they’re icons in the system tray. However, that approach means the various related processes are still running, but disabled … shouldn’t slow other software’s read/write speeds directly since they’re disabled from filtering reads/writes, but the running processes are still taking up system resources (processors & RAM).

Personally, when in heavy editing/mograph/compositing mode on my Windows machine, I first unplug the network cable, then quit any processes that aren’t necessary for the tasks at hand, which include the various Norton processes, as well as the other system protection/maintenance software and anything else not needed. I don’t do that when working on simple stuff, but I prefer to have most of a system’s horsepower focused when it’s really needed.