Ideal System for Premiere Pro 2.0
 

My question is this.

I've used Sony Vegas, Final Cut Pro, and am now trying my hand at Premiere Pro 2.0 from a friend's copy. While Vegas works fine, Premiere seems incredibly slow in accessing video from the timeline, playback, etc. I'm currently running on an Athlon 64 2800+ system, 1 meg of DDR400 memory, and a 6800 Nvidia Card. I do not have the system set up for RAID which is what some folks have suggested.

Am I missing something?

Try adding more RAM, Have a separte HD for your projects 7600 RPM or Faster, Stop all unneccasry services in control panel and then try.

I have no problems with pre pro 2.0 works very well for me.

Kenneth's suggestions are good. While I have not dived into any big projects with Premiere Pro 2.0 yet, it has been very responsive so far on my system. I'm running a setup with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, nVidia FX5700 graphics card, and dedicated 7200RPM hard drives for video projects (no RAID).

I am running a P4 3.0 Dual Channel.
2GB Ram
36GB 10,000rpm 16MB buffer SATA II for the system drive
140GB SATA II 16mb 7200rpm RAID 0 for projects.
128MG ATI Graphics card

It still bogs down sometimes

I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+, 2gb corsair xms 3200, 250 gb wd caviar for storage, 80gb caviar for system, radeon x1900xtx. It cooks the hell out of anything I throw at it. PP2.0 runs like butter off a biscuit.

Nick,
Are you running 64bit Windows as well?

I got a new system delivered just last week:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz
1.0G Ram
640GB 7,200RPM RAID 0
GeForce 7600 GT 256M

PP2 runs smooth and fast. In my experience, highest CPU speed is more important for this type of software than biggest memory.

1GB of RAM??? You really need more than that. If not for PP over XP, for anything over Vista.

I agree. For video editing workstations we strongly recommend going with 2GB of RAM

Gary

The Theme: "2 + Quadro"
 

The theme is 2!

If you are CPU-bound, then moving to a dual-CPU motherboard certainly helps; PPro loves to SMP in a two-way environment. If you are memory-bound, then upgrading to 2 GB of RAM and striping two 10K disks together is critical.

2GB is always better than 1GB. 2 striped disks are always better than 1. 2 CPUs are definately better than 1 when editing with PPro.

Hey, if you're not in Adobe Nirvana at this point, then stick a Quadro FX graphics accelerator in your PCI Express slot and PPro will offload work to it too!