Should I upgrade? Tricky question.

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vousetestouscons

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Should I upgrade. This is a tricky question.

I currently use the following:

Premiere CS3
Cineform Prospect
Win XP
Pentium Quad Core Q9300


After editing and entire 2 hour movie on this configuration, there is still a lot of sound editing and rendering to be done.

I have three options:

(1) Leave everything as is and not change until the project is over.
(2) Just upgrade the processor.
(3) Upgrade to Win 7, and stick with CS3 + Cineform Prospect
(4) Upgrade to Win 7, add memory (Max 8 DDR2), and go with Premiere CS5 + Cineform NEO.
(5) Upgrade to Win 7, Replace processor to I7, add memory (12GB DDR3), and go with Premiere CS5 + Cineform Neo.

I don't want to lose all the effects I placed on the timeline under CS3 and I don't want to lose stability. I also heard the Cineform is not as stable under CS5 as under CS3.

What is my best move?
 
Never change horses during the race.
Been there, done that - not good.
Not good at all.

And yeah, what Ann said, Cineform is pretty solid under CS5.5

Frank
 
The problem is that under CS3 you can't export the projet to DVD under Encore without crashing, you can't import and export tiff files efficiently, and chroma keying is mediocre.
 
1 and 5 simultaneously.

Upgrade the hardware/OS now. Buy and install CS 5.5, but keep CS3 around as well. They happily coexist.
 
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