Upsell to Production Prem: CS4 or CS5

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This may be a no-brainer to some. Curious... I own cs4 premiere and have been wanting to get the upsell to full production premiumCS4 for a while. Now it's disappeared from BH and the CS5 upsell is the only option there.

I've found the cs4 upsell the prices are equal. My comp is Dell XPS630 Quad 8g DDR2, 1028mb dual nvidia card, not cuda-enabled I'm pretty sure. So should I just get cs4 since that was the original plan or go for the cs5. Will it make a big difference? Will cs5 be too much of a hassle to upgrade? I could go either way I just want the smoothest upgrade.
 
If you have a 64 bit os or can upgrade to one then CS5 is the way to go. The new mercury engine is blazing fast, you get the ultra keyer in PP, you can change resolutions, use multiple formats in the same timeline. Tons of new features. Here are some tutorials i did http://vimeo.com/channels/ppcs5

Try a demo of CS5 if you can! Cheers, Dave
 
Thanks, mm. oooo ultra-keyer how did I miss that! I run Vista64. Will it hose me if my graphcard isnt cuda-enabled?
 
Nope, one of my machines is a version 1 macpro with the ATI card in it. Runs great! Check out my tutorial on Changing Resolutions.
 
There is also an easy, simple hack that will enable cards with over 756Gb of RAM to take some advantage of CUDA, so long as the card itself is CUDA enabled (pretty much any nVidia card made in the last few years can support CUDA, it just may not be officially supported by Adobe yet).
 
interesting... i'll look it up. I do think cs5 is probably my best option, its just i feel i've done so much updating for cs4 i didnt want to rock the boat.

By the way I love that avatar... It was very useful in my morning newscast last week.

MediaMogul... sweet tutorials.. thank you
 
Mike Harvey said:
There is also an easy, simple hack that will enable cards with over 756Gb of RAM to take some advantage of CUDA, so long as the card itself is CUDA enabled (pretty much any nVidia card made in the last few years can support CUDA, it just may not be officially supported by Adobe yet).
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Problem with that hack is I find that blending modes can get screwed up. I have a 250 GTS, tried to hack out and all my blending modes got screwed up (soft light and other ones that were supposed to become transparent were opague etc.) so I would not recommend the hack if you are working on big projects. You may just get the startling surprise of video not showing as you intended it to when you output the final product.
 
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