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Rafael Lopes · September 1st, 2013, 05:48 AM

Hi guys,

I've just read the "how much ram does premiere need" thread and I was going to post there but I didn't want to thread jack as I think this is a different matter.
I've just bought a new laptop with 16GB of RAM and I thought I was going to see a huge improvement over my old one (8gb RAM), but yesterday I tested exporting the same project on both and the old laptop took about 1h and the new one took around 39min. While the old one was giving it all it had to export the project, the new one bare broke a sweat and stayed around 8GB consumption during the entire process. Is there a way to force Premiere to use more RAM to go faster? I was thinking about getting 32GB of ram, but if Premiere will only use 8GB there is really no point.

Harm Millaard · September 1st, 2013, 10:30 AM

See Tweakers Page

It looks like you have other bottlenecks.

Rafael Lopes · September 1st, 2013, 10:53 AM

I do not. I have the latest gen core i7 with 2.4ghz (without turbo), 3 hybrid hard drives, a 2gb card optimized to work with premiere. This is all running on a win 7 ultimate 64bits that supports as much ram as you throw at it.

Harm Millaard · September 1st, 2013, 02:26 PM

Sorry, I offered some other idea, but since that is not the case, good luck. I bow out.

Bart Walczak · September 5th, 2013, 09:10 AM

Premiere only uses as much RAM as it needs. Perhaps it does not need more for this project, and as Harm said, there might be other bottlenecks (CPU/GPU maxed out, poor HDD performance). You might be using Dynamic Linked clips which only use 1 CPU core to encode, and the bottleneck is in the program architecture...

I assume you assigned more RAM in the preferences?

Rafael Lopes · September 7th, 2013, 12:47 PM

I've found out there is an option in preferences that allows you to select how much memory premiere leaves for the rest of the system :)

September 1st, 2013, 05:48 AM	#1
Rafael Lopes Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 1,240	RAM allocation Hi guys, I've just read the "how much ram does premiere need" thread and I was going to post there but I didn't want to thread jack as I think this is a different matter. I've just bought a new laptop with 16GB of RAM and I thought I was going to see a huge improvement over my old one (8gb RAM), but yesterday I tested exporting the same project on both and the old laptop took about 1h and the new one took around 39min. While the old one was giving it all it had to export the project, the new one bare broke a sweat and stayed around 8GB consumption during the entire process. Is there a way to force Premiere to use more RAM to go faster? I was thinking about getting 32GB of ram, but if Premiere will only use 8GB there is really no point. __________________ www.rafael-lopes.com

September 1st, 2013, 10:30 AM	#2
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	Re: RAM allocation See Tweakers Page It looks like you have other bottlenecks.

September 1st, 2013, 10:53 AM	#3
Rafael Lopes Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 1,240	Re: RAM allocation I do not. I have the latest gen core i7 with 2.4ghz (without turbo), 3 hybrid hard drives, a 2gb card optimized to work with premiere. This is all running on a win 7 ultimate 64bits that supports as much ram as you throw at it. __________________ www.rafael-lopes.com

September 1st, 2013, 02:26 PM	#4
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	Re: RAM allocation Sorry, I offered some other idea, but since that is not the case, good luck. I bow out.

September 5th, 2013, 09:10 AM	#5
Bart Walczak Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Warsaw/Poland Posts: 716	Re: RAM allocation Premiere only uses as much RAM as it needs. Perhaps it does not need more for this project, and as Harm said, there might be other bottlenecks (CPU/GPU maxed out, poor HDD performance). You might be using Dynamic Linked clips which only use 1 CPU core to encode, and the bottleneck is in the program architecture... I assume you assigned more RAM in the preferences? __________________ Creative Impatience - The Solace of Simple Solutions. A few useful plugins for Adobe users, and my remarks on the tools and the craft in general.

September 7th, 2013, 12:47 PM	#6
Rafael Lopes Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 1,240	Re: RAM allocation I've found out there is an option in preferences that allows you to select how much memory premiere leaves for the rest of the system :) __________________ www.rafael-lopes.com