Premiere Pro CS4 system requirements ??

[Brian Louis]

How are your hard drives arranged, and how much memory does your video card have? and what flavor of HD are you trying to edit?

[Dave Skinner]

i have a 650GB HD running windows and other programs, 1.5TB HD for storage of music, movies, etc.. and a 320GB HD External for other crap.

I am trying to edit 1080p 25frames .MOV files from a Canon 7D most clips are about 1.1 – 2GB each

My graphics card has 512MB memory.

I would ideally like to buy a mac book pro but can’t afford that.

[Brian Louis]

You could use a OS upgrade to a 64bit system, although CS4 is a 32bit system, some parts have been optomized to run on a 64bit OS like Vista 64 or Win7 64, That allows it to use the full 4gigs of menory alloted to a 32bit APP. (6gigs system memory minimum)
I’ve known people to run CS4 with a 9500gt with 512m with no problems, up to recently I was using a 9600gt on one of my video editing machines, I upgraded to a 200 series card for CS5
The video in the MOV wrapper is highly compressed and you still might have a problem running it native with the OS upgraded and more memory, you might want to look at a intermediate codec like Cineform’s NeoScene, it will take some load off your processor, using video like off the canon the cams needs a high performance system like a mid-range i7 processor.

[Hendriyo Kustrianjaya]

1. When playing back HD footage in the source or timeline it lags badly! I have tried all sorts to fix this but think it is my graphics card.

– I just edited some (frm canon 7D) HD 720p footage with 50fps using premiere 2.0, it looks smooth when I play/cut the footage. I just wonder to see that your high end spec computer. I am using core 2 duo with 2 Gb ram and standar GPU. Make sure ur antivirus is not scanning. If still lagging, convert it to targa files (but it takes alot of hardisk space) then you try to edit your files. the lastone is, you have to make sure you are using latest quicktime. alright, gudluck..