[Brian Louis]

After the original time you installed the suite did you do anything like add harddrives that would change the ID letter of the optical drive?

[Brian Louis]

Quad core i7 920 or faster, 4gigs or more of ram, 8-16gigs optimum, Win7 Home Premium64 or Pro64, a raid array if you play on doing many layers.

[Brian Louis]

If you try what Ann says and it doesn’t work, try rolling back the driver to a older one, you could also goto the nvidia website and use the widget to tell you the optimum driver

[Brian Louis]

[Richard Thornton] “So, where’s the “user manual”? for this thing?”
Goto this link it has a download for the user’s manual in the upper right corner, the left side has info and links to other things.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/index.html

Here are video tutorials that will get you up to speed
https://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-premiere-pro-cs4/

For further info, tutorials, and help files on adobe products you can start with this URL and fan out into many directions
https://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/

[Brian Louis]

[Cerutti Nicolas] “MiniDV should be set on “Lower field first” no?”
Yes

[Cerutti Nicolas] “I shoot with a Canon XL2 (PAL) at 50i.”
Why are you quoting these settings in your OP, Pal = 720×576
“Same if I resize or if I change the position of the file (361×288 instead of 360×288)”.

[Brian Louis]

Why don’t you goto the cineform.com website and see the requirements for the software yourself.

[Brian Louis]

I’m using a GTX260 and I got up to 4 layers, so far his reference in the other article he made seems true about the 285
https://www.indiev.org/?p=308

[Brian Louis]

[Bob Kiger] “The question is whether they were optimized by Adobe engineers for the CS5 engine.”
The question is not “optimized” but possibly allowed to be used, like I said the information is available on the net, easily found by searching

[Brian Louis]

[Bob Kiger] “The Mercury engine that drives CS5 is optimized for the CUDA cards you listed but your assertion that in CS5 you must have one of the listed cards is not correct. You can run many high powered cards with CS5 CUDA and other types, but to get optimal performance across the cores and balanced memory usage the cards that have been qualified THUSFAR have been as you said.

GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS)
Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS)
Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
Quadro CX”
The following is a list of cards including the Fermi other than the quadro that can work with MPE in CS5, one other requirement is you need more than 768MB memory on board, information on how to enable these cards is available on the net.
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GTS 240
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 480

[Brian Louis]

[Kurt Schuette] “I wanted to check if Production Premium CS5 would be compatible with the specs.”
What type of video and other files would you be working with? this link has the minimum requirements for PPCS5
https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/systemreqs/
One problem is intergrated graphics, second you need more memory if you are going to run PPCS5, max memory that particular laptop can use is 4gigs, you need at least 6gigs, 8gigs would be recommended, also the laptop doesn’t have a eSATA port, or a 2nd internal harddrive, even if you were going to edit DV you would get into trouble sooner or later with a single harddrive particularly a 5400rpm