IMAC adobe premier

[eddie]

Hi There

Does anyone know, is a standard IMAC enough to run Adobe Premier?
Seems to be running pretty badly, my IMAC has
256 M RAM, and is a 600 MHz machine.
Is that enough?
When I try to preview a movie it says "not enough RAM, previewing from disk"
Is this an extensions conflict?

Thanks, any remarks appreciated.

[twister!]

I'm not a techie but that spec should be fine as long as you are using an external hard drive as well.

A dedicated drive for the media will greatly improve the performance because there is no operating system, application running on it or files which can fragment the disc.

For real techie avice try this forum:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/
and go to the 'Non-linear Editing on the Mac' forum under the 'post production and beyond' heading. It's very good - as are the other forums on that site.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 17, 2002 10:14 AM: Message edited by: twister! ]</font>

[machead]

I don't know much about Premiere but I'd recomend getting more RAM. 256 is is not enough

[eddie]

thanks for the comments.
Maybe an external firewire disk is the answer.

Can you clarify why 256 MEG isnt enough?
It should be plenty - premiere only requires 32MEG to run. I have assigned 64 MEG RAM to premiere, and switched off all other programs....
Also removed unwanted extensions.

My PC at work is an 800 MHz machine with 130 MEG RAM, and Premiere runs like a dream on that.

BTW: PLEASE dont turn this post into a MAC vs PC rant.

Thanks

[machead]

Have you tried

1-turning off virtual memory
2-defragmenting your hard drive
3-allocating more memory to your application program and RESTARTING.
4-buying more RAM, its dead cheap and will boost your system.

I can only comment on FCP and that requires a minimum of 386megs of RAM(don't quote me on that). But once you get over 500 megs of RAM you notice a big change in perfrmance.

The Finder will require about 60megs of RAM so have you tried allocating 180megs to Premiere.

[eddie]

thanks, that might help.

Cheers

[reel2reel]

Hi Eddie, I run Premiere on a 1.2 Ghz Athlon with 512mb of memory. I still have a similar problem. The altenatives are preview to screen(you can change the resolution to 25%)or preview from disc, where the selected area is rendered to a temporary file. The advantage with the last method is the rendered area can be played back many times unless it's altered. The preview settings are available under project settings&gt;keyframe and rendering. Hope this helps.