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How “bad” is Premiere Pro 7 / 1.0?
I started a thread about this and would like to know:
Is anyone running Premiere Pro 7 on a machine with with an Athlon XP?
I know the demo of Premiere 1.5 runs but I have no idea if 7.0 will run on my HP, Athlon XP 3200 system.
I don’t want to find out AFTER I open the software and I really don’t have the $200 – $250 for the 1.5 upgrade.
If it doesn’t, I’ll ship the bundle that I’ve got (V1 of PP, Encore and Audition – $500)
Thanks!
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5 Replies
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Well, buying the full, current versions of all those programs would set you back mosre than the 200 dollars…
PPro isn’t really “bad”… I can’t recall crashing it for any specific or recurring reason other than running it with a Canopus Storm card. My laptop would slow down if I got PPro and AE and Photoshop all open and running…but that would be expected.
PPro v1 doesn’t have the project manager which would help you trim the media in your projects down for archiving. There are a couple of other features implemented in v1.5 like bezier keyframes for Effect Control events and audio levels…
Otherwise, we still have a couple of stations running PPro v1. Nothing wrong with it. Your Athlon wouldn’t be the baddest system on the block with PPro, but I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t be able to run. We ran it on a dual Athlon 1200 system with 512K and it ran…not impressively fast, but no inherent problems…
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
I had a copy of PPro 1 and an AMD Athalon. I was unable to run PPro; when I tried to start it up, it told me something like “this computer will not run Premiere Pro. You need to have an Intel Pentium 4 chip.” Now, I know that PPro 1.5 does run on some non Pentium 4 machines, particularly on Pentium M machines, but can’t speak about it running on an Athalon.
Good luck!
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I’m running the bundle on a XP3000+, 1gig ram with no problems, just the differences Tim mentioned, The chipset is a SIS which seems to have few problems compared a VIA chipset.
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The problem is you may have a older Athlon that maynot have the SSE instruction set, Ppro will not run with them, you have to have a AMD XP with SSE enabled, There is a utility called WCPUID, https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html This utility will tell you if the older athlon is sse capable, if so you can use the utility to enable it if the Motherboard will allow it.
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[Dex Craig] “I had a copy of PPro 1 and an AMD Athalon. I was unable to run PPro; when I tried to start it up, it told me something like “this computer will not run Premiere Pro. You need to have an Intel Pentium 4 chip.””
The Athlon processor needs to be an MP or XP (because of the SSE instruction set as Blast1 mentions…)
My twin 1200s were obviously “MPs” but that was probably as puny a processor as I’d run PPro on and attempt to get anything done… I would think Tree’s (Trees’? Trees’s?) Athlon XP 3200 should run it comfortably…it won’t be a dual Xeon, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work almost if not equally as well as my 3.2 P4 lapstation does.
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net
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