Does Premiere Pro benefit from 8 Core Mac Pro

I'm considering buying an 8 core Mac Pro because my current Intel Core 2 Duo iMac is struggling with the editing I do in Adobe Premiere. There seems to be some debate as to whether 8 cores are any better than 4 cores or 2 cores in a lot of applications. Can anyone tell me if Adobe Premiere works better with more cores - and if there is any special way it needs to be configured?

I am running Premiere Cs4 on the preceeding generation (Xeon 5410's) 8 core PC under Windows and it works wonderfully. Do not see why you would not be delighted with your 8 core Mac except for the price. Here are my 8 cores at 100% during an MPEG2-DVD encode..

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Does Premiere Pro CC 2014 support MJPEG?

I plan to purchase online footage that downloads as an MJPEG. Does Premiere Pro CC 2014 support MJPEG? If not, what does Pr PRO need to support MJPEG ("wrappers"? Codecs?)?
MacBook Pro specs:
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
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OS X 10.8.5

If you cannot see the mjpeg in premiere you need to install the codec.
Google for mjpeg codec for mac.

Does Premiere Pro support a "self-record" mode?

Does Premiere Pro support a "self-record" mode? It would record a new video with the source being what you are previewing, in terms of "animation" rather than in terms of the quality seen on screen. I often like to make humorous effects by dragging the time indicator back and forth, and have to resort to recording my own screen while in semi-fullscreen mode, then import that video and crop out the chrome. This obviously is not optimal and results in significant quality loss. Does Pr itself have such a feature built in?
I doubt it does, but it would be extremely useful.

Ditto what mark said. The intended purpose of the project manager is basically to do just as you said. It was a great solution for anyone that wanted to store the few usable minutes of their media and were confident in just discarding the rest. The problem is that, as Mark said, it doesn't handle the trimming of all common file types these days. That's because, in video, 'destructive' editing is always a matter of re-exporting edited versions and project manage simply cannot export every format to any format. The original files are never actually being trimmed down, you're just getting new versions to replace the old ones with. This represents another drawback in the form of generational loss. That's why the Project Trimmer many not be the ideal solution for you even if it is able to trim all applicable formats for you.
I tend to agree with Jim and thing that the better way to go is with Prelude. With that app, you can log what you want before hand and then capture (or, more accurately, 'Ingest') just those parts from the start. Still, it might be a good idea to save the original footage on memory card(s), hard drive(s)s (or , dare I say, tape(s_?). That way if you find out later that you didn't capture (or ingest) all of what you wanted, you can always go back and get it. Also you'll have an additional backup which could easily be re-captured from the original source if you've save the prelude project(s).

How much does Premiere Pro and After Effects rely on the hard drive it's installed on?

This may be a really dumb question, but how much does Premiere Pro and After Effects rely on the hard drive it's installed on if all your video files, assets, disk cache, etc are on different drives than the one the program itself is installed on?
The reason I am asking is that I currently have a "relatively" slow Sata II SSD for my C drive that has just my OS (windows 7 64bit) and programs (adobe editing programs, no games) installed on it and nothing else. All of the files used in my projects are saved on either a very fast Sata III SSD or a slower HDD depending on what the files are. For example, disk cache on the Sata III, stills on the HDD.
Being cyber monday I have the opportunity to buy another very fast Sata III SSD to replace my current Sata II SSD C Drive (just OS and programs). Both synthetic and real world benchmarks show a near double in performance. I just want to know if anyone thinks the upgrade is even worth it because for all I know there won't be any increase in performance since no videos, still, cach, etc will be stored on the C Drive.
The alternative is to get a second monitor because I currently only use one 21" monitor.
I suppose another alternative would be to not buy anything on the cyber monday deals and just save money for something else.
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks Alex! I think you are right about not being able to notice the difference between the SSDs. I ended up finding a deal to get about $80 off a great monitor that I've been looking at for a while and decided to pull the trigger on it. I thought about it and realized that there have already been a bunch of times where I want to watch a tutorial on youtube and follow allong in AE or PrePro, but have to keep switching windows. I also frequently want to have my video preview on a separate monitor so I can have a taller timeline window. This monitor will help a lot with that. Thanks again for your help!

Why Does Premiere Pro CS4 Import Only 10 Seconds Of Layered Photoshop CS4 .psd??

Why Does Premiere Pro CS4 Import Only 10 Seconds Of Layered Photoshop CS4 .psd??
I have a 24 second clip I layered in Ps and when I import the psd into Pr THE SEQUENCE IS ALWAYS ONLY 10 SECONDS!
How can I change this? Why does this happen? I really need to know as soon as possible. I have a video project due this Wednesday (granted it's for an AV class where I'm just learning Pr. But I can learn VERY FAST!)
Thanks for your help.
--OSXniCKels

Just in case I wasn't clear in my last line "just Click-drag on the Tail of your .PSD to set the desired Duration," once you have Imported your .PSD (as Footage), just drag it to the Timeline, Click-drag on the right-hand margin (the Tail) and stretch out its Duration, as is required.
Now, if you Imported as a Sequence, open that Sequence's Timeline, and do the same.
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Good luck,
Hunt
PS - Welcome to the forum.

How does premiere pro CC work with nvidia GT 630M (2GB) vega???!

how does premiere pro CC work with nvidia GT 630M (2GB) vega????!

That will work. I would just not expect major performance with a heavier load on playback.
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Does Premiere Pro 2 use graphics card for playback?

Does Premiere Pro 2 use graphics card for playback? I am using a 350W PSU, so my nVidia 6600GT runs in low-power mode, and my video playback in Premiere is choppy. The same .avi files play fine in a media player, so it can't be a disc issue I guess... Please advise, thank you!

Only the latest CS5 uses SELECTED card's GPU for video acceleration
>same .avi files play fine in a media player
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Use the FREE http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ to find out what codec is inside that AVI wrapper
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Does Premiere Pro CC export omf from multicam sequences?

I've got an hour long multicam sequence already cut and ready for OMFs to be exported when I realized that CS6 does not export the "inside" of the multicam audio clip (which is basically a nested clip). I've already edited the sequence to picture lock so there are many, many, many cuts (not just video, but also audio) so it's not as simple as unnest an audio clip - I would have to unnest ALL the multicam audio clip per cut (and there are a lot of cuts). Is there any way possible to work around this debacle? Does the new Premiere Pro CC fix this problem? From what I've researched, there isn't any proof in writing or from anyone's experience. For the future, I now know I have to unnest the audio before I go do any multclipping session, but for now - I need the quickest workaround and my fear is that I may have to just go to every audio clip and unnest...
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Hi yfury,
In Premiere Pro CC, you can flatten your multi-cam sequence and then export an OMF from there. Right-click > MultCamera > Flatten.
More info: http://adobe.ly/13WkFZ2
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Why does Premiere Pro CS 6 hang when option opening bins, clip to sequence, etc?

Hello,
I am having an issue with Premiere Pro CS6 performing a few commands:
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The problem only happens when I’m in bins.
My project is rather large – about 49.9MB, with over 100 folders and bins (it is a feature).
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However yesterday the issue started again – it hangs on the commands listed above (Mac’s spinning wheel).   The operation is usually completed successfully however it can take up anywhere from five to ten minutes before the sequence is duplicated or the bin opens (option clicking), etc.
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MacPro 1,1 - OS X 10.6.8
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
16GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
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"Devenum.dll" Change your rendering engine from GPU to software. Project Settings, General, Video Rendering and Playback. See if that helps.

Why does Premiere Pro 6.0 become unresponsive with longer video sequences?

Laptop A works fairly well with small Premiere Pro CS6 projects of 9 minute duration. Project is on external drive connected via USB2. Processing time is long, but at least I can get all my work done.
However, when I use Laptop A for larger projects (25-minute duration), Premiere becomes unresponsive.
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So there are four differences between my laptops:
LAPTOP A
LAPTOP B
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Win 7 Home Premium - 64-bit (Lenovo ThinkPad)
Win 7 Pro - 64-bit (Dell Precision)
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Intel i5
Intel i7
Internal HD
SATA2
SSD
RAM
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16GB
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USB3
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Footage is H.264 from Canon t3i.
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Launch Date
Q1'10
Processor Number
i5-540M
# of Cores
2
# of Threads
4
Clock Speed
2.53 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
3.066 GHz
Intel® Smart Cache
3 MB
Bus/Core Ratio
19
DMI
2.5 GT/s
Instruction Set
64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions
SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Embedded Options Available
No
Lithography
32 nm
Max TDP
35 W
LAPTOP B
Essentials
Status
Launched
Launch Date
Q4'11
Processor Number
i7-2960XM
# of Cores
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# of Threads
8
Clock Speed
2.7 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
Intel® Smart Cache
8 MB
Bus/Core Ratio
27
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5 GT/s
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64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions
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Embedded Options Available
No
Lithography
32 nm
Max TDP
55 W
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Hi Mark - I bought a NanoKontrol2 to be able to mix in Premiere Pro CC, but I'm having a nightmare trying to get it to work! Was hoping you could help me..
I'm on Mac.. I initially installed the Korg MidiUSB drivers. I uninstalled it (based on your advice) but it doesn't perform any better.. I've added the Control Surface under preferences as a Mackie device. Here's what happens when I switch to Audio Track or Clip Mixer:
The mute, solo, stop, play record buttons all do nothing. Markers do nothing. The sliders do nothing.
The fader knobs at the top sort of do something.. They mostly fade left/right in the opposite direction I turn them, and it's super imprecise. Difficult to get it back to center or anything.
What am I missing... is there a step by step procedure to setting up that I should follow (the instructions and other forums aren't helpful).

Why does Premiere Pro CS5 eat up space on my C drive when it conforms video files?

Hey everyone. I have Premiere Pro CS5 with the latest update installed. I am running Windows 7 64-bit on a 120GB Corsair SSD drive. I have set my scratch disk video and audio previews to a different hard drive (F: drive). I have three questions:
1. Why does Premiere eat up space on my C drive whenever it conforms the video files I import into my project?
2. Where on my C drive can I find the folder that holds all these conformed video files that are taking up space on my C drive?
3. How do I prevent Premiere from eating up space on my hard drive when it conforms the video files I import into my project? Is there some way to move whatever folder is eating up space on my hard drive when Premiere conforms the video files and tell Premiere to conform the video files on another hard disk so I don't lose precious space on my C drive?
Okay, that's four questions but, can some please help me on this? Thanks.
Okay, that's five questions.

hello,
i think you need to relocate you media cache files to a separate drive other than your c: drive.
in the hardware forum, Harm has done a wonderful job at advising on HDD setup, i think it mentions relocation
of swap file, media cache, etc. all which are defaulted to your c: in your user profile
after relocating to different physical drives (all without partitions) performance usually increases
Generic Guideline for Disk Setup by harm
hope this helps til someone else answers more
good luck...
j

Why does Premiere Pro CS5 process audio source before exporting clip in AME CS5?

Hello everyone, my first post here. I am currently trying out the trial CS5 Master Collection on my MacBook Pro. I've been using Premiere Pro CS5 to put together family videos. I select a certain portion of a sequence and queue it for export in Media Encoder CS5 in the format H.264 for iPod with video and audio.
Now in AME I have a queue list of about 5 clips from the sequence. But when I hit the Start Queue button, the bottom left of the progress bar states "Adobe Premiere Pro processing audio source from [then file name]" for all 5 clips from the sequence then creates the first output file.
Then it moves to encode the second and again states "Adobe Premiere Pro processing audio source from [then file name]" for all 5 clips of mt sequence then spits out only the second output file.
This continues for the remaining 3 output files. The total sequence length is ~32 minutes with transitions and it takes about 35 minutes to export which is all consumed by the process audio source of the 5 clips in my sequence for 5 separate times.
Is there a certain reason why Media Encoder or Premiere Pro does this process of audio source? Is this process necessary or needed? I experimented with choosing different output formats but the results are the same. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Now that's pretty good follow-up to your first post, and quickly too! Nice detective work.
As you have found, there is basically a Render/Replace operation going on in PrPro, to get the material in the correct form for AME.
Thank you for reporting, as it saved me, and others, from basically saying what you said.
Good luck, and sorry that you beat us to the punch.
Hunt

Does Premiere Pro subscription come with Media Encoder?

It's amazing how there is no means to get a hold of Adobe to ask a simple sales question. It looks like the only option is for their customers to provide the answers. Not promising for long-term support...
Does anyone know if a single product subscription to Premiere Pro CC also provides Adobe Media Encoder as part of that $20 monthly price or is AME considered a second app, thus a $40 price tag? Secondly, is AME available as a single app purchase apart from Premiere Pro or AE? Just trying to figure out what my options are. Thanks in advance.

It doesn't come as a separate app. It's part of the Premiere Pro app.

How does Premiere Pro perform on a Dell XPS 15?

Trying to establish if Premiere Pro (via a full subscription of the Creative Cloud suite for $49.99) is worth the investment when I'm working on a Dell XPS 15 laptop with 16 GB of RAM (rest of the hardware is standard top-of-the line XPS 15 options, i.e. quad core processor, NVIDIA video card, etc). I've been using Adobe Premiere Elements and a ton of 4K GoPro footage with some pretty meaningful slowdown when rendering. This could be par for the course, but I'd just as quickly go with another video editing program like Sony Vegas for my purposes and pay far less, but of course also get far less in terms of Adobe power.
Also - this laptop does not have a 7200rpm hard drive (the one that isn't solid state, which is 32GB by itself). It's 1TB but likely in the high 5's instead...not sure if I can use a faster external hard drive and meet optimal spec requirements to preserve video as much as possible. Please advise.

My inquiry is actually to the reverse of your suggestion; I have the laptop, but I hadn't yet purchased the Adobe Cloud Creative Suite. Though I went ahead and did so this week. The XPS 15 was chosen for its lightweight aluminum / carbon fiber construction, Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, 1TB of hard drive space for ample storage, and the SSD for active programs so things are quick to launch. I've had very few complaints with the laptop itself, having used only Adobe Premiere Elements (which came with the purchase) and the GoPro app for developing a few videos of aerial GoPro footage. It has served its purpose; I'm not a professional doing this work to sustain my living - it's a hobby to me, though I aim to have the best possible quality in all things when possible. Granted, I could've spent the same amount of money, or perhaps a little more, and gotten the best and fastest desktop arrangement money could buy for my purposes with ample more power and performance, but I wanted 100% mobility for all my equipment (drone, camera, and video production unit). Gives-and-takes in everything, of course - the biggest consequence has been rendering, but in this forum that probably goes without saying, and though not awesome, it's livable even when using GoPro 4K codec as BartonGarrett256 wisely mentions.
Nevertheless, Adobe Premiere has been doing well so far...certainly better than the Elements application in terms of both performance and capability (naturally). I haven't gotten to After Effects yet, though I do love having that at my whim with my Cloud subscription which is, to me, well worth what you get for what you pay if you know you'll be using multiple applications for the foreseeable future. The days of paying hundreds of dollars for one application are ending, as well they should in my opinion.
Though I'm open-minded to what one might suggest for the most powerful laptop on the market - 8 core is honestly news to me. My XPS was purchase in December 2014 and it had the best processor Dell could offer with the XPS model. I almost went with an Alienware, but it would've been a lot bulkier, and the display was archaic in a world moving more and more toward crystal clarity wherever possible.
One other setback I would love advice / opinions on - the 1TB drive that came with the XPS is not 7000+ in speed...I recall it being in the 5's. Can I remedy this with an external drive that does have the higher speeds cited as optimal for the Adobe video editing suite?

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