CS5 versus CS4

Hi
I have CS4 set up on a corei7 with 6G ram 2 x Raptor HD, Nvidia 512 Mo, Windows 7 Pro 64bit.
My problem is that I am not satisfied with the performance overwhole either using HD or DV.
Whilst editing the video is jumpy and the final result is not very good either.
I understand that importing HDV is maybe too much for the program because of the compression rate..
Hence with Mac/FC there is the prores codec.
I am a Unix user and only use windows for this, I am very unsatisfied with this product (windows7) and am now seriously looking to get a mac.
But I just wanted to know first (as a mac is big investement) if upgrading to CS5 would improve the programms performance seeing as its finally 64 bit
has anybody noticed an improvement in fluidity whilst editing etc..
Thanks

Hi well thank you for this post, It was basically what I wanted to know concerning upgrading to CS5.
I have tried Cinellera on Linux it ressembles more a "typical" video editing app, but it is really complicated.
Premiere is really quite intuitive so I will give it an other shot with CS5 now that its 64bit the 6 Go ram will be used I hope...
Remains that Windows has a real problem handling memory and it is a very heavy OS with an enormous amount of disk activity...
So I am not expecting a miricle there

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Hi Bob and thank you for your help.
The answer to your question is yes. But now I have more information:
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- It occurred to me that my client created the original ind file himself (on a MAC) then sent it to me to work on.
- BUT my client's ind file was a originally a Quark file converted to InDesign CS4.
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Judy
From: BobLevine <[email protected]>
To: Judy Schultz <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 12:46 pm
Subject: Saving down from CS5 to CS4 cross-platform
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Photoshop cs5 and cs4, photoshop help...f1 why online

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If you want to turn off Community Help so that local Help opens by default, do the following:
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I'm considering replacing Dreamweaver CS5 with CS4 because my textbook follows CS4, and there are several new features in CS5 that are not covered by the textbook. If I do this, will my existing webpages created by CS5 be destroyed? Will I be able to open them using CS4?
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Bob,
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How to downgrade cs5 to cs4

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Best workflow CS3 to CS4 to CS5 or CS5 to CS4 to CS5

I had been doing a monthly magazine in Mac CS3 and sending it for text edits to someone with Mac CS4. They would return it to me as an .inx doc and I would prepare it as PDF for the printer.
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I had been doing a monthly magazine in Mac CS3 and sending it for text edits to someone with Mac CS4.
Text edits? Only text?
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Basically, every option you have is fraught with possible dangers.
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You've lost me, honestly, but obviously you seem to be close to the solution. Your colorist is mistaken, though, about how AE handles color profiles. It doesn't discard or enforce profiles, it really seems you just forgot to carry them somewhere. Also, since these are different machines, maybe a specific profile was not available. eitehr it was never installed or it is blocked due to permission issues...
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Down saving from CS5 to CS4 in a batch

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Are you saying that it'll run faster if I start Bridge from within PS CS5, 64-bit?
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