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Running CS5 w/o Nvidia
I’m considering CS5 to edit 7D footage, but I need to know that it will be manageable without a nvidia GPU. My laptop uses an Intel dual-core processor @ 2GHz and an Intel 4 Series Express Chipset GPU. I know that these specs are by no means spectacular. But will CS5 make use of my 64 bit OS and 4 gigs of RAM? Will I be able to edit footage from the 7D at a realistic pace? Thanks in advance!
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In short. No. it doesn’t meet minimum HD specs.
I have a core 2 1.6 with 7200rpm hdd and 4gig ram win7 64bit and it doesn’t like to play with dslr well.
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I’d suggest finding some 7D footage somewhere and trying it. Get a trial of Premiere CS5… Because my specs are similar and it plays very well with my lappy, just need to render it. Sequence>Render Entire Work Area
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I did just that—I got a trial and some 7d footage. However when I play the footage it’s just black. I hear audio but see no video. I’m still running CS2, and after converting the footage it plays just fine on my laptop. I know my computer is capable, I just don’t know why CS5 won’t play the footage. Any suggestions?
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In the CS5 trial they’ve left out a bunch of presets, and that may also mean codecs…I don’t know, though I have heard (read) that people have been able to use 7d footage with the trial.
I personally would want to see the trial play that footage, before laying out the cash…I mean you could try contacting Adobe and asking what’s up with that (and whether your specs will work), but who knows what that will entail, and are they really just going to try pushing Nvidia GPUs.
I can say that CS5 has new features that are excellent. Many of them are not advertised. If you play around with the software a little, you’ll start seeing some pretty cool things.
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The only HD preset that the trial version is DVCPROHD and when I used the trial I loaded a 1080 mov into the DVCPROHD 1080 preset and it played fine, applied motion scaling and a few other effects, but I was running a MPE hack with a GTX260, so the mileage may vary on a non GPU setup
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