[Nicole Smith]

I don’t use it often enough to justify any sort of upgrade, especially not to the subscription version. Photoshop and Soundbooth run fine, it’s just Premiere Pro giving me trouble. I might look into upgrading the processor, though.

[Nicole Smith]

I believe I changed the footage to h.264 in handbrake to be able to use it. I’m not entirely sure what the original codec is but premiere pro said it couldn’t read it. The clips themselves play fine in premiere pro, but the parts in the actual project timeline don’t.

I’ll see if I can rig one of my external hard drives to help some. If that doesn’t work and it’s definitely a hardware problem I guess I’m just going to have to deal with it… I don’t use premiere pro half as often as photoshop and soundbooth which both work fine and I simply can’t justify the expense of the newer versions of the creative suite.

Thank you for your help!

[Nicole Smith]

I was worried the drives might be a problem, but I obviously can’t sacrifice the rest of the computer for CS4 so hopefully there’s a work around of some kind.

Processor: Intel i3-4130
Windows 7 64 bit
16GB RAM
Adobe CS4 Creative Suite
1TB HDD
Using MP4 for this project but couldn’t import that normal files so had to run them through handbrake once to get usable MP4 files