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Which Premiere version is best?
Hi All,
I’m returning to Premiere after a break and want to upgrade. I’m currently on Pro 1.5. A simple question! – What are people finding to be the most stable version? (I use XP and have a canon HV20)
Thanks, David
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4 Replies
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You can only upgrade to CS4.
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If you have an older computer, you may be best sticking with 1.5, though everyone I know offered me sympathy when I told them that is what I am using.
We installed CS4 on our PC, a Dell XPS 600 Pentium 840 Dual Core with 2G of system RAM and to describe it as “pokey” is an understatement. At four years old, the computer just cannot keep up with today’s applications and one cannot add any more RAM to it.
If you have a brand new dual quad Mac Pro or a dual quad Nehalem-based HP workstation, CS4 will certainly get out of its own way.
I don’t want to take issue with Ann, but there is still shrinkwrapped CS3 and there may still be CS2 in the pipeline. I would use froogle.google.com and look for what I can find from a repurable dealer.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question. I’ve sort of ‘bit the bullet’ last week when a retailer sold me a CS2 for £100 and an upgrade to CS4 for £199. I thought it best to future proof myself as much a possible. So far, 2 days in, I ‘ve had a few crashes- when titling and rendering but -so far, so good- there’s more similarity to 6.5 that I had anticipated. My hardware is 12 months old- a Toshiba laptop with an AMD processor and 4GB’s of ram. Rendering still takes a while but the playback etc is good. Good luck with your system- a pain that RAM can’t be upgraded. What about your graphics card? That may speed things up a bit.
All the best. David
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I kind of “walked into this one,” and don’t have the power to really add much to the mix — yet.
The company wants to move to Final Cut and purchase three or four Mac Pros for the work and we’ll take the Adobe Suite we have over to them — though we will probably upgrade a few of them.
Essential to our workflow will certainly be AfterEffects and Photoshop but we may also need Premiere for some things.
You have a 12-month-old computer and CS4 is about that old, so your upgrade will certainly be fine on your system.
And I do have an advantage. Render times are long enough to allow me to follow this forum…
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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