Platform choice for Adobe PP CS4/4.1

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I am just on the verge of setting up a Hackintosh. Luckily the hd i ordered came in sounding like marbles were jostling around inside the drive which gave me this opportunity to ask a simple question. Here are the cliff notes

- already bought Mac OS X 10.5.6 & Final Cut Express
- have 99% of the parts I need to build a compatible Hackintosh machine

Options:
1. keep on with the hackintosh build
2. take back the Mac OS & FCE and save 300$ then send back the drive and save another 220$ and just buy the full version of Premiere Pro
a. I kinda like this idea because Premiere Pro natively works with AVCHD files and is 64bit + my version of vista is 64bit (so in total that's 520$ i can re-allocate to PP4.1)
3. (most expensive) keep the hackintosh with the Mac OS & FCE and use PP4.1 also

The question that is burning me is between PP4.1 & Final Cut.

Will Premiere Pro run as fast on Mac OS X being 32bit or will it run better on Windows 64bit where I'd loose the option of fooling with Final Cut?

Did I ask that right!?!?!

Thanks for your help
 
With Windows, you'll be able to use the graphics card for acceleration, so you'll see a marked improvement in performance.
 
I just downloaded the latest 9.7 CCC

is there a setting that will help the fluent-ness of the playback in the "Program Sequence 01" section?

Sometimes its smooth. Sometimes it drops out but then catches up 2-3 seconds later.

I thought my system would be able to handle MTS files

I have a Q9650 at stock 3Ghz
4 soon to be 8 gigs of DDR2
4870
Ultra 320 SCSI 15k Fujitsu MBA 300g drive

and btw, are there any other components that I need to address that could be the cause of poor playback?

Help

EDIT: back on Windows Vista 64 U fyi
 
The Mac version of PPro CS 4.1 works pretty smoothly on Leopard. However the Windows version has more native effects as well as enjoys more support for third party plugins. You can also use Adobe's Audition audio software with Windows version of Premiere.

Good luck.
 
Your ATI 4870 should work great with Premiere. The Quadros offer more advanced outputs for calibrated video displays and such but for regular editing I would stick with the ATI for now.
 
SteveCharles said:
Your ATI 4870 should work great with Premiere. The Quadros offer more advanced outputs for calibrated video displays and such but for regular editing I would stick with the ATI for now.
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But playing the MTS files in the source window stutters. What is causing the problem? In draft quality its smoother. I have Splash beta playing the native MTS files with no problem I just cant scrub the timeline. So I can't really conclude it either being the video card or processor. I have overclocked this CPU to 4.25Ghz (Q9650) stable but I am more concerned with stability running Premiere Pro now. I don't know what to think. I've almost jumped on a 1000$ workstation card that might not even solve the problem... or could it... argh!
 
I'm working on an ATI Radeon HD 3870 and MTS files are playing smoothly so your 4870 shouldn't be hindering you. Your quad core system should also be fine for playback of MTS files in Premiere. Are you using a separate hard drive for your MTS and other media files? If everything is on your boot drive then you are not going to the the maximum benefit of the rest of your editing system. You might also want try defraging your hard drive with the windows defrag utility or perhaps even try a third party defragger. The additional 4 gigs of ram you want to add will greatly help with CS4.

Lastly, somewhere on the Premiere Pro section of the Adobe website is a whole list of suggestions to speed up Premiere on Vista 64. Good luck.
 
I just got PP. I am a novice and this is my first NLE. I've only come from Windows movie maker, lol

So, from the get go, i really don't know how to setup a proper Video Editing machine. Which leads to answering where my file is placed. Yes, file. On my boot drive. I almost jumped on a WD FALS 1tb drive but was waiting for something like this to be recommended to me. If its a better reason to store my files on a separate storage drive then, i'll check the 'understand' box and click submit purchase on the drive.

Thanks so far :) and yes, i've looked up the Premiere Pro forums on Adobe and will sift through threads!

Thanks again!
 
Hard drives can be the slowest component of your computer system. The more optimum setup for a quad core computer involves three drives such as the following:

1) Your boot drive with your apps such as Premiere on it
2) A scratch drive for those programs such as Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects to place their rendered files and caches on
3) A project drive with the original footage and audio.

That way your CPU and Ram are not constantly waiting for the hard drive to serve them the data they need. Premiere can be a very efficient editing system once set up properly. There is a list of around twelve steps to take on your computer to really speed it up on the Adobe website. Have fun.
 
SteveCharles said:
Hard drives can be the slowest component of your computer system. The more optimum setup for a quad core computer involves three drives such as the following:

1) Your boot drive with your apps such as Premiere on it
2) A scratch drive for those programs such as Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects to place their rendered files and caches on
3) A project drive with the original footage and audio.

That way your CPU and Ram are not constantly waiting for the hard drive to serve them the data they need. Premiere can be a very efficient editing system once set up properly. There is a list of around twelve steps to take on your computer to really speed it up on the Adobe website. Have fun.
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What drive should be the fastest?
 
I would start out using the fastest harddrive for the Project drive with the original source footage, especially if you are going to be using editing multiple video tracks together in the timeline.
 
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SteveCharles said:
Hard drives can be the slowest component of your computer system. The more optimum setup for a quad core computer involves three drives such as the following:

1) Your boot drive with your apps such as Premiere on it
2) A scratch drive for those programs such as Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects to place their rendered files and caches on
3) A project drive with the original footage and audio.

That way your CPU and Ram are not constantly waiting for the hard drive to serve them the data they need. Premiere can be a very efficient editing system once set up properly. There is a list of around twelve steps to take on your computer to really speed it up on the Adobe website. Have fun.
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He/she does not need two drives or a RAID unless he/she is editing uncompressed HD. Most drives can play at least 3 layer of the P2 codec and several layers of HDV and AVCHD provided the CPU is fast enough. Other than uncompressed HD a single drive will cut the mustard. A single drive will even edit uncompressed SD just fine. I will admit if intermediate codecs are being used a seperate drive would be wise just for the simple fact the the files will be larger than native HDV or native AVCHD files after conversion.
 
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