Hardware needed for Premiere Pro 2.0

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Kugar13

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Trying to use Premiere Pro 2.0 and have sued it on two different computers. The first computer seems to have the minimal specs to run the program and the image won't play in the program window/monitor. It will show the clip in freeze frame (paused), but when I attempt to play it I get solid blocks (complete screen) of blue, burgundy, black, with the audio running fine.

On the 2nd computer I'll watch footage that I want to capture and the whole screen will go black, loosing picture and audio.

I'm not a computer genius by any means. I pretty sure I am meeting the minimal requirements to run the software. Any advice?

Does anyone know of a decent set-up (computer hardware) that one would recommend for best editing results?

I have 2GB of Ram (filming on DVX100A, not HD), Pentium 4, yatta-yatta.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thx
 
that yatta-yatta could mean your problem..post what your complete specs are and then we can tell you if its a system performance issue
 
Sorry about that. I'm at work right now and didn't have the specs avail. I'll post them soon. Thank you for your willingness to help!
 
My computer specs

My computer specs

I have Pentium(R) 4
CPU 2.66GHz
2.66 GHz, 512MB of RAM (the other computer has 2 GB of RAM)
Microsoft Windows XP

Does that help?
 
What about graphic card?

From what I see here it looks like your system specs is fine. I have a 2.4 ghz, 512 GB Ram and Radeon 9500 and PP2.0 runs fine on mine. It's possible that you have other programs or codecs installed on your computer that's messing it up. In my experience Premiere can get seriously screwed up if you have incompatible codecs. If you installed any audio or new video codec lately then try to uninstall those and check again. This is obvious but make sure that your XP is SP2, you have the latest driver for your graphic cards, etc.
 
computer specs update again

computer specs update again

I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card
I do have XP home edition w/ SP2
2.67 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

Does this information help?

Thx!
 
Generally I would not try to run PPro2 with 512MB's of RAM, however that does meet the minimum requirements and I doubt this is your problem.

Your graphics card is not on the list of supported cards so you should make sure you have the latest nVidia drivers installed and then check the Adobe site to see what drivers are supported on a comparable card, like the 7800. I'm guessing that your graphics card might be too old to run the latest driver.

If you registered this product with Adobe, configuration and installation support is provided free of charge and is quite good. They can troubleshoot your problem and save you a lot of time figuring out what the problem is.

If it turns out that you need to upgrade your graphics card, I'd recomend the nVidia Quadro FX540 (if your computer is new enough and has a PCIe slot). This card has a compnent breakout box and works with AspectHD for HDV and DVCProHD editing in the future, and has good open GL for 3D and some games. It costs about $250.00.
 
Kugar13 said:
I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card
I do have XP home edition w/ SP2
2.67 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

Does this information help?

Thx!
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Hi,

you realy have a good machine, I had been able to edit dv multilayer and graphics with less, but you need:

1) upgrade your RAM to 1 or better 2 Gigas (PC3200 ok?)
2) you MUST upgrade to WinXP Pro SP2; Prem Pro does not work well with Home edition of Windows
3) you also need to install Netframework + SP1 (from Microsoft's page)

Or better, if you have the bucks, build or buy an AMD dual opteron, MSI or ASUS MB, PCIe Video card (FX540 works fine) 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 2 or 4 Sata Raid HD's.

Good Luck
 
Kugar13 said:
I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card
I do have XP home edition w/ SP2
2.67 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

Does this information help?

Thx!
Click to expand...

Required you have the necessary RAM on this computer (at least 1gb like others have said) it should work fine.

Just to clarify: what exactly happens? you say you loose audio and video when you capture. Is it just when you capture - meaning you can see and hear the video once it's been captured and you are playing it back? if so you are looking at a settings issue - you've probably set the program inadvertantly to not play back audio and video while capturing to save RAM. it could also be a standard function in Premiere that when you don't have enough ram the computer doesn't waste performance on playback while capturing.

a more detailed explanation of your problem would make it a lot easier to diagnoze.

oh, and btw: "minimum system requirements" means that the program can start up and run without crashing. you should be looking at "recomended system requirements". minimum is pointless in this instance.
 
Update

Update

I made a mistake. My computer has 2 sticks of 512 mb of RAM (combined 1GB of RAM).

I purchased 2 sticks of RAM: OCZ technologies PC2700, which are indicated by Dell (my comp) to be compatible, but when I switch the RAM and turn the comp back in I get a beeping sound. I'm waiting for support from the Dell site.

I'll try everyone's suggestions and see how it goes.

Thank you all!
 
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