Premier Pro 2.0 video issues in Windows 7
by Anthony Rockliffe
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Nov 3, 2009 at 11:44:45 am
Just upgraded to Windows 7 professional from XP professional and I am getting poor video quality in premiere pro 2.0 it seems like there is no "higher quality" available when i select that option. The picture is slightly pixelated and not sharp at all, as it was in XP. What could be causing this? there has been no hardware change. Once I export the video to AVI or burn it to DVD the quality is fine, but obviously I want best quality for editing....I have 3,5 gigs of ram, quad core processor and a 9800gtx.
Re: Premier Pro 2.0 video issues in Windows 7 by Mark Hollis on Nov 3, 2009 at 9:07:35 pm
If you cannot simply reinstall Windows XP, Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate can run Windows XP mode, which is a virtualization tool that may give you the ability to run old XP-compatible software in a window under Windows 7.
Personally, I would not have upgraded. If I'm making money doing video, I do everything I can to make sure that I have a good installation of anything that makes video. I don't let my Mac automatically update, I don't update Quicktime Pro and I never update the boot drive with new system software unless I have a clone of my old system.
Same with PCs. I used the Avid DS with a PC and we never upgraded Windows XP to anything. When Service Pack 3 came out, we waited until Avid had released a patch that would prevent SP 3 from borking our systems. When Avid released version 8, which ran on XP-64, we were never tempted in the least to try Vista. Current Avid editing software that runs on Windows runs on Windows XP or SP-64 -- they have not transitioned to Vista or 7.
I realize Adobe applications tend to keep up with OS changes better than Avid's highly proprietary stuff, but I would seriously hesitate to install Windows 7 on any machine that is used for production, until or unless Adobe released a version (or an update) specifically for the new OS. And it is highly unlikely that CS3, Premiere Pro 2 or the version I use, 1.5, will be updated to work with Vista or Windows 7.
Re: Premier Pro 2.0 video issues in Windows 7 by Bob Dix on Nov 10, 2009 at 7:53:21 am
You are dead right. Stay with XP, play safe.
If you upgrade, make it a new computer, Windows 7, CS4 and keep your fingeres crossed.
Because Adobe's technical support is near to useless. (the word is incompetent)
In 4 to 5 years using Premiere pro 1.5.1 they never got anything right, but, Adobe's Premiere Pro 1.5.1 is one very good program.I expect CS4 will be as well. The output has been fantastic, pity about the tech support, I doubt if they know where the on/off switch is.
