Prod Prem CS4 on 64 bit

[Eddie Lotter]

Very few people have posted about getting Premiere Pro to work on XP x64. Mostly people post about problems trying to use XP x64. Prevailing wisdom suggests you simply shouldn’t use XP x64, there is good reason why it is not supported.

Cheers
Eddie

[Peter Berthet]

and in regards to premiere, its a x86 program anyway and doesnt really gain any performance increase by being on a 64 bit system

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Eddie Lotter]

[Peter Berthet] “doesnt really gain any performance increase by being on a 64 bit system”

On the contrary, my friend. Vista x64 will improve your PPro editing experience because the OS can provide more resources to multiple 32-bit applications than an x86 OS. This is not hype nor an April Fool’s joke, it’s fact.

Cheers
Eddie

[Edward Roberts]

+1 Eddie
Vista64 will compartmentalize RAM for individual apps to use. 32bit WOS’s will only recognize 3.2GB of system RAM for use for ALL apps when tweaked properly. V64 will allocate up to 4GB for each app. So in a 16GB system running PPro, After Effects, and Encore simultaneously there is a huge noticeable difference in performance AND stability. This all assumes however that all parts of the system both hardware and software are V64 compliant.

Edward Roberts
Micro Media
Greer, SC 29651
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https://www.micmed.com
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[David Dobson]

I tried CS4 on Windows 7 Beta (64bit) and it ran much better – and my hardware is
hardly certified for Vista, let alone Windows 7.

[Eddie Lotter]

[David Dobson] “I tried CS4 on Windows 7 Beta (64bit) and it ran much better”

That’s good to know. Thanks for reporting.

Cheers
Eddie

[Sney Noorani]

it’s good to know that Win 7 is a promising environment for CS4. I’m just setting up Preimere Pro CS4 on XP 64bit so I can take advantage of 8 GB RAM, and it runs really well with the extra RAM, but I’m running into a few snags, such as lack of Quicktime support for xp64,

on the bright side my project uses .movs minimally, but picking a video format to transcode stuff to for imtermediate purposes is baffling, i.e. if I can’t make a mov… then what can I make? I don’t like avi’s…

Luckily I can transcode my existing movs (DVCPROHD) to P2 MXF(DVCPROHD) files using the Adobe Media Encoder, and the MXF files are readable my Premiere CS4 in a xp64 environment, it’s a pain in the ass workaround, but at least it’s a workaround.

[Shawn Miller]

I’ve been sucessfully running PPCS4 on 64bit XP from day one. It seems to be more stable (for me) on 64bit XP than 32bit XP. I’m hoping to avoid Vista altogether and possibly upgrade to Windows 7 after SP2.

Here’s a link to a PDF from Adobe that summarizes the advantages of using a 64bit OS with PP… note that XP64 is supported.

https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/pdfs/cs4_production_premium_64bit_wp.pdf

Thanks,

Shawn

[Eddie Lotter]

[Shawn Miller] “note that XP64 is supported.”

Oops, correction: Note that XP64 is not supported.

Cheers
Eddie

[Clint Milner]

Following the theme,

I just made the mistake of having a custom video editing computer build for me with XP64 installed. The first snag I had was that my Matrox RT.X2 capture card won’t install on XP64. I also noticed that the OpenGL 2.0 support from my NVidia Quadro FX 3700 isn’t XP64 compatible as well. Photoshop/Premiere/AfterEffects were worthless, but now Vista Ultimate 64 is running, and I’m happy again.

Steer far away from XP64. In theory, XP64 is a good idea, but in practice, don’t get burned.

Clint