Is quad really worth it?

rawfa

rawfa

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I've read some articles saying that premiere pro 2.0 doesn't really take full advantage of quad processors. Quads are not that expensive here in Spain and I was thiking about getting one, but after reading these articles I thought I better post here first ;-) Any thoughts? Personal experiences?

cheers,

Rafa
 
Well a quad-core CPU is only helpful if the software uses all the threads, and I don't think premiere does, if you run AE aswell, you can get Nucleo Pro that will use all the cores available to render.

But I don't think Premiere takes advantage of all the cores.

- Derrick
 
what about dual core? is that any better for pro and rendering?

I have to upgrade my edit machine soon for HD and such.. but still not sure what to get dual or quad, u'd think quad be better cuz its QUAD lol

still running on the old trusty p4 3.2
 
AE CS3 now uses its own logic to make use of every processor in the machine to speed rendering now, so you dont really need nucleo. PPRO DOES use multiple processors as well:

"By default, Adobe Premiere Pro renders video using the maximum number of available processors, up to 16."

..thats straight out of he PPRO CS3 manual

the issue with either program (which is not a bad issue but something to be aware of) is that each processor that is rendering needs it own chunck of RAM to work with so you need to be sure that your settings for RAM account for multiple processors all using the same amount you specify is available. in the case of PPRO you can switch the rendering to prefer RAm instead of performance to be sure theres enough memory available for each processor. so the more cores the better as it DOES make a difference. :)
 
just started using a dual quad core PC at work with CS3 and its quite nice. Really amusing to see all 8 processors going at once. And we have an almost identical machine with dual duo cores and its definitely faster on renders with 8. Go for the quad!
 
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