Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 system requirements

Question

Hi all,
I have been looking at the trial version of CS5.5 and was disappointed to find out that two of the main programs I was interested in do not work, specifically Adobe Premiere and After Effects
As a user of Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition running on a modern 64-bit system, I would have expected those two products to function without difficulty, Having looked at Vista and rejected that because of the awful user interface and rejected Windows 7 for the same reason(same awful user interface) are there any patches available that could enable these two programs to run happily under XP x64.
I look forward to your responses 

Answer 1

Hey Bob,
Thanks for your response.
Yeah I guess it's like onion soup (as the old saying goes) you either love it or hate it, I am really having a hard time with Windows at the moment, on the one hand I like the openness(damn, is that even a word) that Linux offers i.e. being a fellow geek(I build my own systems too), I like that I can see what is happening, but there is a lot to be said for the turnkey type thing that you mentioned, and I can see the advantages of 7 I just wish they would change the interface, Vista was horrible what with all of its problems and yes I can see that Win 7 has sorted those out for the most part, I guess it's the old rock and hard place scenario after all there is not a Dreamweaver for Linux ... yet ... if there was, Adobe could make a killing, but I am sure they are looking at that.
Bob Levine wrote:
Again, there is no support for XP64 for any Adobe product in any version.
If you have them running on that system it’s as much a matter of luck as anything else.
Everything else seems to run fine but there is a 32-bit emulator built-in, something Microsoft call WoW 64
Bob Levine wrote:
I really happen to like Win7 and moved to it the day it was released after using Vista 64 for a couple of years. I’m a bit of geek and build my own systems but for the most part I just turn the key and it goes. J
Vista 64 I bet you had fun and games with that
Bob Levine wrote: 
The CS5.5 products I use run very, very well (i7 w/16 gigs of RAM) but I don’t use video apps. You might want to pop over to the Premiere Pro or After Effects forums and see if anyone there can offer you some encouragement one way or the other.
i7 16GB, nice, I just have a mere i4 with 2GB of RAM(hey it was cheap)
As regards the Premiere Pro or After Effects forums I guess I will get the same response, maybe when I am back working regularly I will invest in Windows 7, I believe the Home Edition is around £99-00, but, knowing me, I will go for the Ultimate version which I believe is around £199-00 because as a PHP web developer I have HTTP, MySQL, SMTP and FTP servers running most of the time.
The video thing is just something I want to play with, hence my original post(to add a few more strings to my bow, so to speak)
I am also looking at some other video editing products but having checked the reviews AE comes out 4th on the list.
Anyway, thank you for your time Bob.
Jon