Requirements System For Premiere CS4

Good Afternoon,
What are the minimum requirements to work with Premiere CS4?
It works well with Windows 7 64-bit?
Thank.

History of MINIMUM requirements from CS3 to Cloud
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-premiere-pro.html
CS4 is a 32bit program, so the program will not use more than about 3gig of ram, no matter how much you have installed

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Can not install update for premiere CS4

Hi, my name is Josanne.
I work with windows Vista home premium and Premiere CS4 , Aspire G7200 computer, AMD Phenom 9850 Quadcore processor, 8 gig mem.
I have two problems:
1.
I got a message to update Premiere CS4 so i tried.
The file is 192.4MB
Every time i trie to install it failes saying: Adobe setup stopped working.Updater did not work.
I tried installing with firewall and antivirus shut down, didnt work.
Does anyone have a solution?
2.
I make clips using a Sony PD170 camera. When i make a widescreen (16:9) project the exported formats turn out strange.
It seems its always 4:3 format with black filling up the top and bottom.
I hope someone understands what i mean and knows a solution.
Greetings,
Josanne.

1. Try to download manually from the Adobe site.
2. The PD-170 is 4 x 3. You should only use a DV 4 x 3 preset. It will always show the black borders top and bottom, because the PD-170 is not capable of shooting 16 x 9, it only shoots 4 x 3 and crops the top and bottom.

System requirements for Premiere CS4

the box states I need a dual 2.8 processor for HD. My laptop has a dual 2.5 processor with 4GB ram, it is a 64 bit system (Vista). I have not opened the box yet so I can return the program and get Elements. I originally wanted to take advantage of my dslr video capabliltiy, I have a Canon 7D and 5DM2. The more I thought about getting serious about video the more I thought I should get a dedicated camcorder, so I just bought a Canon Vixia HF11 camcorder.
I understand that Elements does not do well with dslr files. So I am wondering if Prmiere Pro is overkill or if it would be very useful. I was able to get the program at the educational pricing, that was a huge factor for me getting the Pro version over Elements. Now I am worried my computer will not be able to run the program.
I really do not want to buy another computer! Will my laptop be good enough or would Elements be a little more practical?
Gary
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I paid around $2500 for a Sony laptop mainly for my photography business. One year later and it is already outdated!
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I really appreciate your help - thanks. And as my wife has been telling me this morning - get the heck away from the computer and enjoy the holiday. But this is what I enjoy! LOL!
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-Rick Phillips

Ok, back from my break from all this, now time to get back to work. I will respond to everyone's post with the hopes that everyone will continue to be awesome and help me through this:
Glenn - I would upload a clip, but all of my video files are well over 5MB, and to do this I would have to recapture a clip, and spend alot of time making sure I upload it correctly, when i have already spent so much time trying to fix this and I simply do not think it is relevant at this point.
Harm - I'll see if I can get your questions answered properly. The only item under my Display Adapters is the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family. I contacted HP about how to find out what my Graphics and Video drivers were, and all they could say was that they are all components of this Chipset Family.
I do not know how to determine which Codec Adobe is trying to use (or needs for that matter). And I have downloaded so many suggested codecs it's not even funny, I dont even know which ones are in use at this point.
The camera I am using is a Canon GL2 MiniDV Camcorder, with a firewire cable. These are my Sequence Settings:
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So G-Spot will not properly identify the codecs that come with Premiere ProCS4... Then why in the world was I instructed to download it?... I have so many things to delete from my computer as soon as I have the solution.
Keano66 - I agree with you completely, I am positive that it is a driver issue. I downloaded Driver Doctor/Driver Detective (and paid for it, eeek...) and it shows that my graphics driver does indeed need to be updated. I have downloaded and updated all of these drivers, However Premiere Pro has not changed a bit...
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Are these specs any good for Premiere CS4?

I have just bought Cs4 and it doesn't run very well on my computer that ran CS3 perfectly!
Is this normal?
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MSI Neo P45 motherboard RAID
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Using your existing case, power supply and 32bit Vista. thanks scott!!!

Your specs do look good enough, at least for DV. Working with DV footage should allow you to have smooth video.
But people like me doing HDV work are having a lot of stutter/freeze problems. The Program window is giving this trouble on playback. You may see your Source window as able to play smoothly, but that is raw video and tech support confirms it processes video differently than for the Program window.
CS4 lacks a switch that CS3 had to select whether to use GPU acceleration. According to phone tech support, that is trouble for a lot of people.
Further, CS4 while trying to "automatically" decide if and how to use the GPU (graphics card processor), will not accept OpenGL 3.0. Ironically, the advice to me was to roll back to old drivers, that were 2.0 (or 2.1) compliant, as that would supposedly throw the "invisible switches" correctly inside PPro CS4.
However, rolling back did not help me. I also have RAID 0, but I have a single core 3.8 GHz processor, so my problems are acute, and CS4 is unusable for me.
Even people with Quad cores are having playback stutter problems (I think usually mostly with HDV).
That's incredible!! What was Adobe thinking when they released this software with such a performance slowdown compared to CS3?

Photoshop CS4 require system

Please help me to build an Photoshop CS 4 system for a very good performance. I would like to work with raw files and correct some around 4-500 pcs once and then batch to export to jpeg and I need a very good system for that I think. Thanks a lot for any advice! And perheabs you recommand me a system for Premiere too...maybe the same system designed for Photoshop works even in Premiere CS3 or 4 good or very good?! Thanks again!

For video card choices see http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405711
8gb of RAM should be enough but the more the merrier!
And you need a 64-bit Windows OS.

Is Premiere CS4 a Done Deal?

Hello,
I just reinstalled Premiere Pro and then finished an 8 minute video in it easily, in half a day. That is the same 8 minute video (shot with the Camcorder that I was told was my problem) that Premiere Pro CS4 failed to create a video with, after struggling with it for a week.
I haven't seen any updates for Premiere CS4 for awhile. Is it a done deal, or are the technicians working on resolving the bugs and problems that prevent me and others like me from doing *anything* on Premiere CS4?
If Premiere CS4 is a done deal, then I definitely want to trade it for Premiere CS3 right away. What use is a software program that you cannot use, period?

I am by no means one of several apologists who chime in almost every time someone expresses frustration with and/or badmouths CS4. Though I purchased the upgrade several months ago, I've been unable to use it because my capture card supplier (Blackmagic Design) has not yet issued a driver, much to my consernation. So, I'm still working with PP2 on XP-64, which luckily works perfectly.
Some of you may remember several years ago that one of the alternative editing app suppliers (Velocity/Leitch I think) decided to no longer sell their soft and hardware unless it was part of a complete computer/system that they put together, configured, tested and sold as a package. I don't know whether they still do this or not or even if they're still around.
Apparently they believed this would preclude them having to spend so much costly time on the phone dealing with customers who were having problems with their products installed in off-the-shelf computers or ones those customers had built themselves. In their view, many if not most of the problems were the result of hardware/configuration incompatibilities over which they had little to no control.
The point here of course is that many of the problems people are having with CS4 probably are hardware/configuration-related. That said, it's also pretty clear that many are because of not-ready-for-primetime coding issues within CS4.

Notebook qualified for Premiere Pro CS4

Hi, I was wondering if this laptop would be equipped to use Premiere Pro CS4 on, not so much heavy use. I'll probably get the i7 2620m processor instead assuming it's worth it.
It's a Dell XPS 15
Processor
2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2410M processor 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz
Operating System
http://www.dell.com/mc.ashx?id=Tech-Spec-Formatting:MDA-ToolTip&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&modalwidth =400&modalHeight=150&ovropac=0&modalscroll=yes&modaltarget=div&modaltype=tooltip&position= bottom&title=Genuine&flip=true&eventType=rolloverWindows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Display
15.6 in HD WLED TL (1366x768)
memory
4Gb dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
hard drive
500gbSATA hard drive (7200RPM)
video card
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 1GB graphics with Optimus
For $100 more the laptop has 6gb ram and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB graphics with Optimus... would the difference in running PP CS4 be only marginal, or would it result in extremely worthy improvements?
I use a desktop for editing but want to be able to use a laptop while I'm mobile, so I just want to assure I purchase a notebook that won't crash often or run too slow to bear while using PP.
also wondering if a notebook with a drive that's only 5400 rpm would be acceptable if I'm also using an eSata?
Thank you for your insight in advanced.

I second Harm's and John's recomendations. That XPS 15, as configured as listed above, does not meet Adobe's practical minimum requirements for either CS4 or CS5. In fact, CS4 actually demands far more RAM than it it constrained to use (as a 32-bit program), meaning that it will never perform well regardless of the platform because CS4 relies extremely heavily on the pagefile due to the lack of total RAM support.
And even if you plan to upgrade to CS5.5, that laptop suffers from several limitations:
1) The i5-2410M, like all other mobile i5 CPUs, is only dual-core. And given that no desktop dual-core system performs as well as even a mediocre quad-core system, the dual-core laptops will likely be even slower than most of the desktop dual-core systems.
2) The laptop has only 4GB of RAM. Unfortunately, the XPS 15 (in most configurations) does not support more than 8GB total of RAM. This means that you'd have to max out on the total RAM capacity just for Premiere Pro to even run acceptably well - and then, only if you choose a quad-core i7 (as in i7-2xxxQM).
3) Because mobile hard drives are typically slower-performing than their desktop counterparts, consider an SSD instead as the laptop's system drive. But then, you'd have to put up with only one eSATA port and two USB 3.0 ports to connect an external hard drive.
4) The GeForce GT 525M is barely adequate for CS5.x (if you choose to upgrade Premiere Pro to the latest version): It uses only DDR3 memory (current fast GPUs use (G)DDR5 memory), and it has only 96 CUDA cores. As such, it would be nearly two times slower than a fast mobile GPU.
5) Dell often includes a fair amount of bloatware pre-installed on their systems - and the bloatware seriously degrades system performance. What's more, some of that bloatware cannot be easily uninstalled - and some parts of the bloatware are left on the system to screw up overall system performance even if the main bloatware apps are uninstalled.
Put them all together, and you might very well end up with a system whose overall performance ranking is at or very near the very bottom of the PPBM5 results list on the PPBM5 site. In fact, even if you use CS4 and run PPBM4, your ranking would still be very near the bottom of the PPBM4 results list on the PPBM4 site.

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So I've been tasked to build a new computer for a client for Premiere 5.5. He's running a very basic studio setup and his main complaint is how it takes
such a long time to render video. He told me it takes him about 6 hours to render a 40 minute sequence to MPEG2 standard(this is what he mostly renders as). I did some playing around and it turns out that his current system is relatively good but it uses a HD 6990 as its GPU(which can't even take advantage of Premier's hardware rendering capability!)
Now initially I was going to go the all SSD route with a a budget of about $2500 or so. However, after doing some reading on here, I've decided that this
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POWER SUPPLY:
OCZ ZX Series 1000W Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Certified Power Supply (OCZ-ZX1000W)
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OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5" 120GB Solid State Drive (OPERATING SYSTEM DISK)
Western Digital VelociRaptor (WD3000HLFS) 300GB SATA II 10000RPM 16MB x2 (Project Disk Run in RAID 0)
Western Digital VelociRaptor (WD3000HLFS) 300GB SATA II 10000RPM 16MB x2 (Output Disk Run in RAID 0)
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OPTICAL DRIVE:
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Also, will there be a problem if I run four hard drives in RAID 0 mode using the motherboards onboard RAID capability?

Photomaster,
I think you are on the right track to speed up this guys system (2600k w/ OC, dual RAID 0) and I second Harm's comment about large 7200 drives being better than the prev. generation VR 300GB drives (HLFS series).
Be aware however that "rendering" does mean different things, and if you are thinking that MPE will increase AME rendering to MPEG2-DVD by 10x you will be very disappointed! Here is the rest of the story...
Timeline rendering, as benchmarked in PPBM5, will indeed speed up on the order of 10x with the addition of MPE using the appropriate nVidia hardware. PPBM5 is a test carefully constructed test that represents how long it takes for Adobe Premiere Pro to prepare (render) a timeline for playback. In actual use, your results will vary. Some timelines may only be sped up by 2x (i.e. very complex and/or using non-MPE effects, filters, etc.) to more than 1,000,000x faster for the case where a non-MPE system requires rendering, whereas the MPE system can play back the timeline without ANY rendering (i.e. simple SD timelines with MPE compliant effects).
Next, full timeline rendering and "exporting" from a Premiere Pro timeline to MPEG2-DVD format are both sped up, but more on the order of 2x. On my fast quad-core system, I'm getting about a 1.8x improvement from MPE assistance using the PPBM5 project for testing.
Finally, using Adobe Media Encoder (AME), and I can only speak for CS5, the MPE hardware does not even come into play and does not speed things up at all. On a positive note, Harm has reported that AME ver. 5.5 ran just over 2x as fast as ver 5.0.3; possibly the newer version is in fact tapping the MPE hardware for this gain?
Regards,
Jim

Premiere CS4 "Save As" for Avid or FCP

Hello,
Is there a way to save my composition or sequence for Avid or FCP .
My buddy works with Avid and FCP and he wants me to send him my composition or sequence so can work on it.
I use Premiere CS4.
Thanks

Ex Malterra,
> I'm curious as to which versions CS4 can save an FLA as.
Flash CS4 can save FLAs as CS4- and CS3-compatible files.
(By
comparison, Flash CS3 is able to save CS3- and 8-compatible
files. Flash 8
can save 8- and MX 2004-compatible files, and so on, back.
Always the
current version and the version before.)
> some customers require the version to be 8. For this and
> other reasons we need to be mindful when considering
> upgrading.
It can get tedious, but if you're using CS4 and want to save
for Flash
8, you'll have to Save As CS3, then open that file in CS3 and
Save As 8.
Keep in mind -- and this isn't new to CS4 -- you always risk
losing features
when you save to a previous version of Flash. For example,
Flash 8
introduced blend modes. If you use those and try to save your
file as an MX
2004 file, you'll lose that particular feature.
> Also, will CS4 allow us to create files as either AS2
(gotta
> have that Tree component!) or AS3 in the same way that
> CS3 does?
Yes. Flash CS4 supports all the versions of ActionScript as
Flash CS3.
That said, you can always use 3rd party components to meed
your needs, if it
comes to that. The Yahoo! Developer Network features free
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Premiere CS4 - Multiple tracks always require rendering regardless

It used to be if you had for instance mutiple tracks and the top track was a DV-AVI file with 100% opacity and no filters, no rendering was required. Now it seems that if you have anything on the lower tracks, even if completely hidden by the top layer, rendering is always required and transcoding takes longer - sometimes considerably depending on what's on the lower layers though not seen. I actually have to completely remove sections of clips on the lower tracks to speed up transcoding. Just more unnecessary work and time.
Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I can not seem to find this precise issue among the slow rendering discussions.
Bruce B

I hope you've found the answer already, but it sound exactly what I've run into.
My problem was that I upgraded from CS2 and then removed the suite once CS4 was running.
If you have done the same thing, simply reinstall Premiere CS4 and it will work as it did for me.
If not, I don't know what to tell you.
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Dan

CPU requirement for Premiere Elements 10?

Hi there,
Unfortunately, I think I know the answer to this already, but thought I'd toss this out there to see if anyone has gotten it to work.
On a Windows XP sp3 PC with a 1.86ghz Core2 6300 CPU with 2gb RAM, I'm unable to install Adobe Premiere Elements 10. When I run setup.exe I get "This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor."
The system requirements for Premiere Elements 10 do list a 2ghz CPU with SSe2 support. The Core2 6300 does support SSe2, but runs at 1.86ghz not 2ghz.
Just haven't seen a program actually refuse to install based on CPU speed before. Guess I've been lucky. But can anyone confirm that the installer actually won't install on a slower processor speed. Not sure what else the error could be than this.
Thanks in advance,
Sir_timbit

I know about the min specs. The reason I'm asking if it really checks the CPU speed is I have a school that *is* running Premiere Elements 10 on the exact same hardware. Same CPU. The only difference is the new version I'm trying to install is the volume license version, part of the Adobe Digital School collection. The school that already has it running is using Premiere Elements 10 with either separate licenses or some other license setup. So it doesn't make sense why it worked but doesn't now.
Testing today. On my test PC, a Core 2 6300 XPsp3, the setup would start up OK using the non-VL installer, but fail when I tried to use the setup.exe from the new installer. As far as I know the program is the same, but I don't think I can do the XML customizations needed to do a silent installer on the non volume licensed version of Premiere Elements 10. In short, why does one version of PE 10 install but not the other?
Sir_Timbit

Best Video Card for non 3d/compositing work in Premiere CS4?

Hi all, I'm looking to optimize my system where I can to speed up the editing process. I edit 1080p footage from the Canon 5D MKII (h.264 MOV files)using half-res h.264 proxies, but CS4 seems to hang a lot in the timeline view and clips just disappear and instead show green. I'm switching to half-res MPEG-2 (.m2v) proxies now and so far that problem seems to have gone away (still testing), but when timeline display quality is at "High Quality" (vs. automatic) there's still some chop during slow pans (not seen with "Automatic" or "Draft Quality").
Anyway, I'm looking for the weakest point in my system and suspect the video card. My system is an 2.66 i7 processor, 6GB 1333 ram, 1x160GB sata II HD (OS/Apps), 3x1TB SATA II RAID 0 (paging file, data), and an $80 ATI 4650 512 MB video card running Vista 64.
So all that said, what's the best general graphics card for editing HD video in Premiere CS4? I don't care about 3d or compositing at this stage, just basic editing of unrendered (timeline playback) HD video, maybe sometimes 1-3 HD layers, some basic color correction effects (b+w, contrast, etc), dissolves, text overlay, some clip speed manipulation.
Many seem to recommend the Nvidia quadro cards, but I haven't found any information to suggest they help with anything other than 3D/compositing, which I don't need (and therefore don't need to pay the premium).
There's also the Nvidia CX card, but it's main feature is touted as encoding h.264, whereas I could care less about that and ideally need decoding of h.264 in the timeline to be better. I haven't seen any great reviews on this card of heard of average user testimonials, probably because it's $2k and it mainly marketed as "zoom more fluidly in photoshop, export h.264 4x faster", which seem like minor issues vs. "better realtime playback of HD video".
I sort of rambled, but if any informed CS4 users can help answer the question regarding the best video card for general CS4 editing use (not 3d/compositing stuff) I'd love to get more insight.

So in Media Encoder CS4, I tried encoding one of the clips that plays back the least smooth in the Premiere timeline (a slow pan across intricate patterns on a sand dune in death valley) to the following:
Format: P2 Movie, Preset: DVCPRO HD 720P 30
(this was the only format in media encoder that mentions DVCPRO HD)
I noticed when trying to customize the setting, that there is no 30 fps option, just 23.976, 29.97, and 59.94. I just went with 29.97 as that was the closest to the 30 fps of the source MK II footage. The width and height were also unajustable at 960x720 for the DVCPRO HD format.
Playing the output in the timeline view of Premiere was comparable in smoothness to the m2v file. I looked at my resource monitor during playback looking for bottlenecks, and the CPU does seem to spike at 100% initially when playing this clip back. I reverted to the m2v version and also saw the same CPU spike. I also reverted back to the down-res'd mp4 version, same spike. Moving display quality down to draft does allow for smooth playback here.
So I guess there's something about this clip that is CPU intensive to play back in the timeline in any of these formats. The original 1080p version plays back perfectly in both quicktime and VLC player.
Anyway, for now I think I'm content with using the m2v proxies as a big chunk of the clips are fairly smooth, and using a reduced quality display mode for clips that don't play as smoothly is accpeptable for now. At least so far I'm not seeing the hanging/video not displaying (and instead showing a green screen) that I was with the mp4 proxies.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to how to get smoother timeline playback for these proxies (or the original h.264 .MOV files), however, whether it be a hardware upgrade (e.g. better video card) or a different proxy codec, I'd love to hear them and give it a shot.

Is Ciniform still the way to go for editing HD on Premiere CS4?

Hi all,
I may have a opportunity to edit an inde film shot in on P2 HD 1080p. However, i have a few questions....
0. can Premiere CS4 read and edit MXF files?
1. I'm not sure if my Premiere CS4 system will handle it natively without using an intermediate codec like Ciniform. The files have already been transfered to an external drive which i will then transfer to my systems' video drive. The following is my current system configuration:
. Premiere CS4
. Windows 7 x64
. 12gb of DDR3 ram
. Intel 920 quad core processor
. 1tb (2x500gb) video drive
. 1tb (2x500gb) storage drive.
2. The client is not sure the frame rate the video was shot in, either 24p or 59p. Is there a way to determine the correct frame rate so i can select the proper preset in premiere? I may be able to use VLC to view the codec information.

nados wrote:
Thanks, that's good to know.
Now i just have to figure out how to get paid for editing this indie film. They called asking me to edit it now and get paid later - yea right!
Get paid before you deliver it.

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