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Upgrade Question
[Repost from PremierePro Forum]
Hello,
General question — I want to upgrade to Adobe CS4 Production Premium (the discount ends April 30!) but I don’t know if my computer can hack it [AE or the other programs in the Suite]. Please bear in mind that this is my home computer and will only be editing DV footage and burning to Standard DVDs (I am not using this with clients — just home movies and tutorials etc — stuff for myself/playing with AE, making light saber battles, etc)
My system:
Pentium 4 3.06Ghz
1.5 gigs Ram
800 Mhz fsb
Windows XP Pro.Thanks for any advice.
David Oulashian
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1 Reply
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Your system should be able to handle it fairly well. Especially with SD footage.
You won’t be able to take advantage of the multi-core processing in AE, and you’ll have to be careful to use one adobe application at a time. So you’ll lose some of the cool application integration that the Adobe suite offers, but your system will work. Also.. the new adobe media encoder is a separate stand alone application. This is a very useful feature that allows you to set up a Que for exporting and then continue to edit in Premiere. However, because it has to open up another application for export… you may need to be patient with your computer. I’m not sure I’d recommend editing while exporting with your setup. But basically, I think you’ll be able to get a lot of use out of CS4 with your system. Maybe check out Adobe’s site and download a 30 day trial.
Until last fall I was running Adobe CS2 production suite on a Dell Dimension with a 2.83Ghz Pentium 4 and 2Gb RAM. (upgraded from 512MB)
Perhaps look into upgrading your RAM and you’ll be good to go with SD editing.
John Shoemaker
Backflip Film Productions LLC
http://www.backflipfilms.com
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