Re: Premiere CS3 and dual quad-core mobo performance

In my opinion Premiere Pro works good enough with a mere 2.66 GHZ Core 2 Dual fro DV-25 adn DV-50. You get a good RT preview and then you render it out. I know the Matrox card does not have to render back to DV-25 tape but it does not take all that long to render. The AJA or Black Magic cards might give you a slight boost because it does have hardware to help read the DV codecs.

I used to use a Canopus DV Storm with Premiere 6.0. The suport was not bad but with the new Premire Pro and a Core 2 Dual I don't miss it. I can lay down uncompressed with DV-25 and it works great. I can even do PIPs with the RT preview mode set to highest quality. I admit the DV Storm would out put to DV in RT rather than just give a good RT preview.