PC system recommendations for Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium
by richard Bachman
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May 25, 2007 at 11:27:54 am
I'm currently running the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium on an IBM ThinkPad T42. I'm also hoping to add a 3D application soon - so obviously my current hardware set up is 'less than ideal.' I'm used to working on a G5 dual 1.8, however everything at this company is PC based so I'm trying to put together a system recommendation that can handle the workload (again, knowing very little about PCs.) Any recommendations/thoughts/suggestions?
Re: PC system recommendations for Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium by Joe_Mo on May 25, 2007 at 1:22:36 pm
Here is what I use:
WinXP, Asus A8N32 SLI Delx Mobo, AMD2.2 (OC) Ghz Opteron 2X32bit-w/ 1 Meg L2 cache, 2G Kingston Prem.RAM (low lat, 440 DDR2), NVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCIe(512mb), Pioneer DVR-710 DVD, Realtek AC97 Aud., 3xHD SATA 16mb 7200, AL7.1 3494/3581, 2x20"Samsung204t
However, what is key to a successful system is using a dual boot system... Keeping your editing software (ONLY) on a seperate physical drive (not partition). Also, using a seperate physical drive for your rendering is a very BIG plus.
One thing I might also note... I don't use Adobe's Final Cut for editing... I use Avid Liquid... it seems to be more powerful (i.e., more plug-ins available) and more forgiving with importing the various video file codecs... which makes my work flow much less problematic. But... mostly... the autosave is unbelievable. You CAN NEVER LOOSE your work (...well, except for the last 1/100th of a second of your project... well... maybe not 1/100th of a second... but it is some unreal short period of time that is less than a second). Of course, the downside to autosave is that you can't turn it off for instance where you would rather not save the project... such as when your experimenting.
The only upgrades I will be making soon is the Graphics Card and a faster processer chip... I am preparing to move up to HD editing.
Re: PC system recommendations for Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium by Leor Brenman on May 27, 2007 at 10:19:27 am
Hi Joe,
I was reading your response and noticed the comment
"However, what is key to a successful system is using a dual boot system... Keeping your editing software (ONLY) on a seperate physical drive (not partition). Also, using a seperate physical drive for your rendering is a very BIG plus."
Can you elaborate on what you mean? Do you mean dual boot or do you mean that the editing program is 'installed' on one drive AE on the other?
I have a Dell Precision 390 with Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 2.93GHz and 3G RAM with 2 internal drives and an nVidia Quadro FX 3450. I use Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium and would love to improve system performance.
