Switching From Premiere PC To Prem Mac

[Tam Perl]

We have a Mac based studio, and our staple is Premiere Pro CS4. We’ve had tons of problems. But based on following complaints on the COW I don’t think PP on the Mac has any more, nor less, problems than on a PC. Whatever you do, make sure you have loads of computing power and RAM.

The bottom line is — there’s no guarantee you’ll get away from the problems by switching. (You will have more fun on the Mac, so in between tearing your hair out, you may have a small amount of comfort!)

I doubt you can transfer your license, though.

Tam

[Tim Kolb]

[Cliff Elliott] “I have heard that the Apple version of Premiere is suposed to be a lot more stable thus the reason for the original question.”

This has not been my anecdotal experience…It seems as if the problems are simply different.

Your license won’t transfer, I’m fairly certain of that.

are you on a Windows XP machine?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Cliff Elliott]

Thank you for your comments Tam and Tim.
Interesting Comments, it proves you should always check things out and not accept urban myths that develope over time.

Being a computer user since my first Amiga 2000 back in 1987 I have always trusted my own judgment regarding the hardware and software I use. But because I have been so busy over the last few years I have taken my eye off the ball and fel for the myth that Apple were more stable, It would appear from your statements both systems have their pluses and negatives.

Due to a decision I have made recently to perform a large software and hardware upgrade in the near future the comment I kept hearing about Apple made me wonder, but thanks to you guys I think I will stay with PC’s more from a financial reason tahn a technical one.

If the Apples could have Guaranteed me a more stable performance then it may have been worth the cost of changing.

And as a final statement for most of the time the system I use at the moment is very reliable, it just seems when I push the system hard occasionaly it will cause me problems that a reboot seems to fix.

And yes I am running XP at the moment but with the upgrade I think I will give Windows 7 a go.

Again thank you for you comments they have been very helpful.

Regards, Cliff Elliott

[Mikkell Khan]

I’ve used Premiere CS3 on Vista sp2, very little crashes

I’m now using Premiere CS4 on Windows 7, even better.

There is no need to switch to Mac unless you want to get their own editing suite, final cut studio…but then you lose after effects and have to go to motion.

I’d recommend you upgrade that BSOD dinosaur XP though, honestly, I don’t know why people swear by it.

Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago)

[Ed Kukla]

I needed a macbookpro becuse of situations with my XDCAM EX-3. I had an older version of premiere 6.1 on a PC. Adobe upgraded me from Premiere 6.1 to Premiere Pro CS4 for $300 and sent me the discs for the mac version. I had to agree to destroy the PC version to satify Adobe licencing.
It did take several weeks for them to send me the discs

[Cliff Elliott]

Thank you Ed and Mikkell, I appreciate the advise given.
I would appear I can move over to Apple versions of Prmeiere when I do the next upgrade to CS4 as Ed has explained but I after having a good look at this I now believe I would be better off going with a new Quad core PC with Windows 7 and upgrading to CS4 as Mikkell has suggested.

Again thanks to everyone who responded I really appreciate the feed back.

Regards, Cliff Elliott

[Tim Kolb]

[mikkell khan] “I’d recommend you upgrade that BSOD dinosaur XP though, honestly, I don’t know why people swear by it.”

Well, it’s always a little less scary to stick with the scoundrel you know…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,