Premiere Pro CS5 - How to make it stable?

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Exact

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We've been hanging on to FCP7 and suffering the massive transcode times until it's replacement came along - hoping it was going to do the job - and as we all know FCPX is here and it's not going to (multicam scenarios).

We've had Premiere Pro (CS5 - 5.0.3) installed for several months but it's just not stable enough on either of our Macs to be able to rely on it for substantial projects. Clearly lots of other people DO have substantial projects in this software so HELP!!!!!

System 1:
Mac Pro 8 Core 16GB Ram, ATI 5770, Production Premium, Final Cut Studio 3 (FCP 7)
2 Monitors (30" + 23")
Snow Leopard 10.6.7

System 2:
iMac 27" 12GB Ram, ATI 5770, Production Premium, Final Cut Studio 3 (FCP 7)
Second monitor 24"
Snow Leopard 10.6.7

Is there anything inherent in these systems that would make Premiere Pro unstable?

We're not going to be switching to Windows any time soon, so no need to bother suggesting it!
 
Version 5.0.2 introduced a bug for Mac users with ATI cards. Adobe will have a patch soon. In the meantime, you can roll back to version 5.0.0, or upgrade to CS5.5, neither of which have the bug.

Or, my own personal choice of solution, come back into the light and upgrade to a new Sandy Bridge, Windows 7 PC with an approved nVidia card. You'll find things very stable, and very fast, and less expensive.
 
Hey, you never know. Some other reader might stumble upon this and actually consider the extremely valid merits of the idea.
 
i had the stability problem with projects contain many untranscoded videos in cs5
with untranscoded videos, you really need cs5.5 for professional use
 
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CS5 is very stable with native media (at least on Windows 7 properly configured).

Having said that, 5.5 does offer some nice new features that might be worth the upgrade price. (Plus this stability issue with ATI cards goes away.)
 
Reading Jim's comment, sounds like you really need a pair of Nvidia cards. If nothing else, you'll get to better take advantage of Mercury. But since I'm on a PC, I couldn't begin to tell you which one's are compatible with a Mac.

(And I'll spare you the "switch to Win7" comments :) )
 
Wow, so not only do we now have one of the Adobe guys hanging out here, but they're still updating and supporting CS5.0 even after CS5.5 was released. Apple could learn a thing or two here (I know I know... cheap shot :) )
 
Mike Harvey said:
Reading Jim's comment, sounds like you really need a pair of Nvidia cards. If nothing else, you'll get to better take advantage of Mercury.
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No, GPU Acceleration supports one (1) card so adding another one wont help anything when it comes to the performance of GPU Acceleration. The acceleration of one card is pure magic though! :)

/Roger
 
Averdahl said:
No, GPU Acceleration supports one (1) card so adding another one wont help anything when it comes to the performance of GPU Acceleration. The acceleration of one card is pure magic though! :)

/Roger
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I meant pair of cards in that he had a pair of Macs, so one in each machine. Sorry I wasn't more clear :)
 
So, we installed 5.5 trial AND the update to 5.0.4. BOTH are now solid - so it really was a 5.0.3 problem with the ATI5770 cards.

In terms of cuda acceleration, having spoken with an Adobe person, very little of what we do will see any benefit from a CUDA card at this point. Maybe cross fades.... and that's about it ;) If it had been any different I would be thinking seriously about building a PC with a cuda card and switching. There seems little point since they won't run significantly faster than my Mac pro 8 core.

What I am going to do at some point is install a dual boot so I can test the windows version running on the same hardware to see if there really is any benefit to windows (often claimed as 10%). We'll see ;)
 
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Exact said:
In terms of cuda acceleration, having spoken with an Adobe person, very little of what we do will see any benefit from a CUDA card at this point. Maybe cross fades.... and that's about it ;) If it had been any different I would be thinking seriously about building a PC with a cuda card and switching. There seems little point since they won't run significantly faster than my Mac pro 8 core.
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I see a huge difference in having a CUDA card, and highly recommend it. It's more than just doing cross fades.
 
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