Premier Pro doest support AMD 64bit prosessors?

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BigE

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I'm building up new computer and I was plannig to get AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ -prosessor... (I read some finnish forum wrere some guy told that premier would benifit quite abit from dual core prosessors. True???)

Then I went adobes homepage and frequendly asked quistion:
Does Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 support 64-bit processors?
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 does not provide specific support for 64-bit processors at this time.

So, what does this mean exactly? I dont understand english perfectly:P

I would be glad if someone told what prosessor would be a nice choice for editing with premier....
 
At this point any P4 with Hyperthreading or even the new "D" dual core processors are supported by Pro 1.5.
You'll probably have to wait until ver. 2.0 or later before Premiere will take advantage of the new 64-bit stuff. Adobe is always a bit behind on the technology unfortunately. And I say that as a strong supporter of Premiere since ver. 5.
 
I have a 3200+ AMD64 processor and run premiere pro 1.5 on it just fine. I'm also running windows xp pro 64bit edition (which is supposed to harness the power of the 64 bit processor.) Windows divides program files into 2 groups... 32 bit and 64 bit. Although you might have a 64 bit processor, if the program you're running isn't 64 bit, it will not be any different from running it on windows 32 bit edition. (At least, that's my experience.) Adobe Premiere is a 32 bit program so it wouldn't get any performance boosts from a 64 bit processor.

The same is true for the FX amd's.
 
I guess I wasn't clear in my comments above. Yes, as therealslimfigge stated, you can run PrPro on a 64-bit system, you simple will not get the 64-bit benefit as he stated. But it will run.....
Probably not in 64-bit until ver. 2.5 or later though....
 
actually ppro will benefit from 64bit processing in win 64 right now - just because the plugins are not optimized for 64bit doesnt mean there is not a performance boost - and there is a performance boost- i have seen it myself - sometimes 5-10%
 
Not to argue the point.. but I don't see how a 32-bit app can gain ANYTHING from a 64-bit OS. And I'm curious how you measured this 5-10% gain?
 
what about the dual core prosessor on AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+? will it make enourmous difference to performance in premier pro? Does anyone know anything about that?
 
i don't know. i spend a good deal on my computer and now that it's a year old (obsolete?) someone wants to buy mobo/processor off me. i'm thinking of using that money to buy a dual core proc. how is the proc market today? intel, amd? where can i get the best bang for my buck?
 
At this point, I would go with Intel 840 proc. Matrox doesnt support the AMD chipsets with the x100 /rt2500 boards - bummer for me - anyone want a AMD 4400+? In terms of rendering out to DVD, I get faster than realtime in single pass mode on my 4400+. The biggest benefit of my system is the zalman reserator 1+ - my new comp is nearly silent.

The only problem I have seen is premiere sometimes has capture issues with the new system so I use the external scenalyzer capture program - works great. http://www.scenalyzer.com/

Intel also seems to have less problems with audio apps with low latency. I run 10ms in Nuendo 3 and it seems to be fine - its when you run a lot of VST's that things get harry.

32bit apps get a benefit because windows is running more efficiently therefore you app has more resources to work with. Charlie White did a review I think (digitalvideoediting.com) and my friend tested Win64 where I saw the benefit - too early right now to use win64 not all drivers are supported yet.

4400+
Zalman silent reserator 1+
Asus SLI premium mbo
2gb corsair twinx
ATI x800XL
74gb raptor
400gb seagate
4x250 ibm => promise SATA raid 5
Emu 1820M audio interface
 
BTW, 5-10% gain is in render times. Not that significant to every day use - you can gain that just by overclocking the system 5%
 
therealslimfigge said:
i spend a good deal on my computer and now that it's a year old (obsolete?) someone wants to buy mobo/processor off me.
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One thing for sure.....trying to stay up or ahead of the latest, greatest, fastest computer technology is a sure fire way to go in debt.
My advice - Build the best that you can afford right now, make sure it does what you need it to do right now, and don't worry, be happy...woo hoo.....
I'm working on a home-built system that's about 1.5 years old. Spent a ton of money on the fastest processor at the time, 3.2Ghz. and 4Gigs of Ram
Since then, I've kept the machine mean and lean, nothing but editing software, no internet, seperate OS drive/storage drives(4-250GB), HD's defragged regularly, etc.... And I'd put it up against most people's machines running 3.8's or whatever the fastest proc. is today. Just my .02 worth.
 
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