Can my computer handle Premiere® Pro CS5?

[Foster Kane]

I am considering switching to Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 but I am not sure if my machine can handle it. Below are the specs.

Studio XPS 9000

Studio XPS 9000, Intel Core i7-920 processor (8MB L3 Cache 2.66GHz

8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz

ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB

Serial ATA II RAID 0 With Dual500GB Hard Drives
Dell 1525 WLAN PCIe card with11n mini-Card & external antenna

I am currently using Premiere Elements 8 which works, but I am unable to use all of its
features because it is a 32 bit program and I have 64 bit computer.

What do you all think?

 

[Cassius]

Yes.

And most programs are 32-bit, which run as such in a 64-bit environment. There's no reason that would limit features.

 

[Neighborhood Studios]

Absolutely. My setup is below yours (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz, 8GB DDR2 RAM, and the 4800 series of your graphics card, and CS5 runs quite nicely.

 

[Futchibon]

Your card won't be supported for Mercury Playback Engine. You should get a nVidia 1GB card. The rest of your specs are fine.

 

[Foster Kane]

Absolutely. My setup is below yours (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz, 8GB DDR2 RAM, and the 4800 series of your graphics card, and CS5 runs quite nicely.

Is not having a nVidia 1GB card a possible issue as Futchibon points out?

Your card won't be supported for Mercury Playback Engine. You should get a nVidia 1GB card. The rest of your specs are fine.

Yes.

And most programs are 32-bit, which run as such in a 64-bit environment. There's no reason that would limit features.

I have been having a series of problems using Elements which include video effects ends up shutting down the program. I really don't want to since it would mean more money and I am happy with the program but it is very annoying when these screw ups happen.

The reason why I bought the computer was that my HP ZD8000 was not powerful enough to deal with the AVCHD format. The footage was always choppy.

Thank you all.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Neighborhood Studios]

Is not having a nVidia 1GB card a possible issue as Futchibon points out?

It's not really an issue, at least in my experience. Without the nVidia card, you cannot access the Mercury Playback Engine, but even without that CS5 is extremely responsive and render speeds are boosted from CS4.

You can get CS5, and see if things don't run fast enough for you - and spring for an upgraded graphics card...but I bet you'll be satisfied with the speed as is.

I work with AVCHD extensively. In CS4, playback was choppy to the point where I had to shrink the playback window down to about 100 pixels for good playback lol. But CS5 slices and dices through it like butter.