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Hi All,   I've recently bought a new imac 27inch, spec below.   I am a relative newby to PP, and enjoy editing with some layers on the footage such as black and white, and a grain as a make a sequence, and refine.   One of the reasons for purcashing the imac was for quicker render in to out, when I am moving and editing clips.   Please can someone give me the best preference settings for PP and my mac preferences too, to get the best perfomrance out of the machine and the software?   I'm aware not to run most other software such as spotify, and google chrome while working in PP, as these slow PP down.   Many thanks in advance.   Jack   27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display With the following configuration: 3.6GHz 10-core 10th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory 4TB SSD storage Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 memory 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard glass Magic Mouse 2 PRO APPS 065-C171 N

So I am currently getting ready to build a custom pc optimized for video editing (mainly premiere, and some after effects). I'm relatively new to custom pc builds and I'm not sure which SSD's to get and how to configure them for the best premiere performance. I've heard that you want to get two SSD's to separate your OS and programs from your video files and current projects, and I'm wondering if this is necessary or not. If it is, how should I configure this when my mother board only has 1 M.2 NVMe slot and the rest are SATA ports? I've heard that the Samsung 970 evo plus 1 TBs are very fast SSD's, so should I put that in the M.2 slot then buy an additional internal SATA SSD? If so, would it be better to put the OS and programs on the internal SATA SSD and put the video files and working projects on the NVMe since its faster? Or is this all unnecessary and I should just put everything on the Samsung 970 evo plus 1 TB M.2?I do professional video and edit a lot of 4k footage, some proje

Dear Team, When I render 1hrs file after 40% of progress system is directly off, please suggest me which graphics card is suitable for my existing system. PC configuration isIntel i5 4670k16GB RAM GskillSapphire Plus AMD Radeon RX 580 8G Graphics CardAusu z81-A motherboardCrosire 750watt SMPS Request you to please suggest for which graphics card is suitable for my existing system, andy budget is indian INR 17000₹. Thank you in Advanced  

Our public access station is looking to invest in a new editing work station. A large amount of the videos we edit are long-form multicam edits, usually lasting an hour or more and featuring 2-3 cameras. We are shooting in 1080p 60fps maximum, usually AVCHD or AVC mp4s. Our current set up seems to struggle the most with these types of long-form projects, so I want to make sure we put money into the right components to help these projects run as smooth as possible. Based on my analysis, the CPU seems to be the thing that gets hit hardest with these projects, so I already know that will be a big component to consider. What is considered the current top of the line CPU for video editing and rendering with Adobe? Intel or AMD? Is an i9 worth the price increase for this kind of work, or is a top of the line i7 just as good? What impact, if any, will a GPU have? Does a high end GPU like a RTX 2080Ti have a big impact on editing over say a 2060? How much of an impact does drive speed have? Wi

Hello all, I'm looking for some advice. About a year ago, I built a pretty hefty editing machine. The specs are below: Windows 10 Pro 64-bitMotherboard-ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero Wi-FiCPU-Intel i9-9900K, 8 cores, 5.0GHz overclockedGPU-EVGA GeForce RTX 2080, 8GB GDDR6, Black EditionRAM-64 GB (16x4) Crucial Ballistix Sport, 3200 MHzWater Cooler-Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240LBoot Drive-Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2 2280, 512 GBCache Drive-SanDisk Ultra 3D NAND 1TB SSD It has been a huge update from my old machine, a 2013 Mac Pro (trash can), but I'm still running in to some bottlenecks. My primary workflow from day-to-day is approximately 50% Premiere, 45% After Effects, and 5% Illustrator/Photoshop. Not surprisingly, I'm finding that my machine bottlenecks when rendering motion-heavy comps in After Effects or when exporting (via Media Encoder) a timeline from Premiere with a lot of Dynamic Links within. Even though I have an entire 1TB SSD drive that is dedicated solely as a c

Hey There,I am going to build a Windows PC for Video Editing. Is MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC, 6GB GDDR6 good graphic card for video editing? I can´t found the GPU in Adobe recommended GPUs.This is my PCHyperX Predator 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC, 6GB GDDR6Samsung SSD 970 EVO PLUS, M.2 - 500GBAMD Ryzen 5 3600MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK - AMD B550Thank you very much.

Hello,I recently bought a notebook for me which has an integrated GPU AMD Radeon R7 M440 on it. The problem is that I cannot select the Open CL option for rendering with my GPU on adobe premiere pro or encoder. I know that Adobe recently blocked some GPU cards for this function, cause they are too old. But here is the deal: thats not the case for AMD Radeon R7 M445 (4GB). On my point of view Its not an obsolete GPU. Why my GPU card is not on the list? Its because there is an incompatibility going on or there is another kind of problem going on, like it hasnt be tested and aproved yet by Adobe?Thanks

Hi everyone! I have recently realized that my laptop is just not enough to work in After Effects. I am mostly working on motion graphics with a max length of 60 seconds (usually 15-30sec videos) and as you can imagine Macbook Air 15' is just not working that well.. or at all. My budget is between 1500 - 1800$ if it can be in the lower range I would be really happy. So far from what I have researched I know I should be looking for CPU (speed over quantity of cores), supported/dedicated GPU, and preferably two RAMs so I can store cache on separate RAM. Rather than picking on my own, I would like to get recommendation from an expert community so I am coming to you for help, thank you in advance! 

I'm looking to purchase a new PC laptop. Which one do you recommend?     [Moderator note: moved to appropriate forum.]

Hi all!  I am wanting to upgrade my PC, currently, my PC has this in terms of hardware:   CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz  RAM: 16.0GB Graphic:  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 I was thinking about updating the CPU to a Intel® Core™ i9-9900K and adding 16Gb of Ram. Do you reckon there is anything else I could do/ is this the right direction?  Many thanks  Arthur  

Hi I am new to Premier Pro and have just upgraded my PC to have a NewGeforce RTX2080 SUPERIntel MSI Z490 - Pro Mother board with 32GB RAM and 1TB M2 Drive and 500GB SSD SATA CORE i7-10700 2.90/4.80GHz 16MB Cache LGA 1200 10th Gen CPU 8 Cores/ 16 ThreadsWindows 10 Pro 64bitNVIDIA Studio Driver Version 452.06 relased 18/8/2020My issue is that some of my project Export no problems but others make the whole PC blue screen of death. Now the only comparison I have so far is my 1080p  project appears to work but my 4k one chrashes. Is there anyone who can help, or know how I log a support case with Adobe? Thanks

Hi. The way my set up is, I have one SSD that runs at 500 mbps and one that runs at 1050 (Samsung T5 & T7). What would be the best way to delegate these for use with Premiere Pro and after effects? I currently have my media files being read from a USB 3 HDD with my cache and exports going to the 500 mbps SSD. I was recently able to add the faster 1050 SSD. What's the best use of it? Does it even make sense to have it since everything else will be bottlenecked? 

Hi everyone!I have recently realized that my laptop is just not enough to work in After Effects/Premiere. I am mostly working on motion graphics with a max length of 60 seconds (usually 15-30sec videos) and as you can imagine Macbook Air 15' is just not working that well.. or at all.My budget is between 1500 - 1800$ if it can be in the lower range I would be really happy. So far from what I have researched I know I should be looking for CPU (speed over quantity of cores), supported/dedicated GPU, and preferably two RAMs so I can store cache on separate RAM.Rather than picking on my own, I would like to get a recommendation from an expert community so I am coming to you for help, thank you in advance!Edit 1: I need recommendations for a laptop, not a work station - I already have that. But since I am traveling a lot I need a laptop that can perform as well. 

Looking to purchase a mid priced laptop that would be happy running Premiere Pro. At this stage I'm not looking for something too expensive so are there any ou folks would recommend to buy or avoid?Thanks

Hi,I'm getting very confusing information out there in the online world about this setting in Device Manager. HPET (high precision event timer) enable or disabled for Premiere Pro using AMD Ryzen cpu? Thanks for your high tech advice on this one!Letty

Linus Tech Tips recently build a powerful video editing rig (AMD 24 core) using a intel optane memory drive. Is this drive of any use for Premiere Pro.Intel Optane SSD 905P Series 380GBMaximum read transfer rate: 2.54 GB/sMaximum write transfer rate: 2.15 GB/s

I'm currentl using MSI GL65 Leopard 10SCXR 15.6" 120Hz Gaming Laptop i& 16GB 512GB GTX1650 W10H. I only bought this on the 31/07/2020 however I'm experiencing issues with playback in Premiere pro. I've setup proxies and made quality to the lowest I could (1/8) and toggled proxies. It will play about half videos and then freeze on playback mid video. I'm not too sure why this is happening... If I could get some advice this would be greatly appreciated!

Hi. I am about to try my first "Production" set up, with a new PC, so I am setting up PP and PS for the first time on these drives. And I want to get the Scratch Disks optimized. First, Premiere Pro: The official instructions for PremPro say to use a different harddisk for the Scratch Disk and suggest having seperate folders for Video Capture, Video Preview, Audio Capture, Audio Preview, Media Cache, DVD Encoding. Is that correct? Is that the preferred way to set that up, those subfolders inside a Premiere Pro Scratch Disk folder? Photoshop: But the official instructions for Photoshop says using the SSD of the main harddrive for the Scratch Disk is preferred over using a non-SSD harddrive. This, despite Support Community posts saying the opposte (e.g. SSD's have limited write capability, alwasy better to have the Scratch Disk on a seperate drive, etc.) Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello!So, i had the GTX 750 Ti 2GB and i upgraded to RX 580 8GB XFX. I tested in Premiere Pro CC 2019 my new GPU. But the playback is so much slow than before and i dont know why. After Effects is working well, but in Premiere is terrible.I already selected the "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL)".My specs:RX 580 8GB XFXRyzen 5 160016GB RAMAny suggestions? Thanks a lot!

Hi This could be a pretty dumb question. My Apologies. I am a beginner. I make 1080p 24fps videos with footages (Some I shoot and some taken from Web) and a lot of animations (especially data/statistical) done in After Effects. My computer (Asus Rogstrix G731 - Laptop) isn't that powerful - i5 9300AH, 24 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1650 4 GB and a Single SSD for everything (OS, Adobe suite and Media). I use Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator and Audition for my work. There is a lot of back and forth between Premiere Pro and After Effects (occassionally with Illustrator too) using dynamic link. My system is struggling a lot during this and often, the After effects and Premiere Pro keeps crashing. As I couldn't afford a new PC right now, I am planing to upgrade my laptop with the following:Increase the RAM to 32 GB from 24 GB (There are 2 slots inside, 1 with 8 GB and other with 16 GB). So I am planning to replace 8GB with 16 GB.Put an extra

Hi so I have a new PC in mind that will mainly edit 4k videos on Premiere, grade some colors on Resolve, from time to time render something in AE (maybe more in the future) and play an occasional game. Focus is def on editing. Thats the build (in german) I'm thinking to get:SSD Silicon Power P34A80 1TB, M.2 (SP001TBP34A80M28)CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 8C/16T, 3.60-4.40GHz, boxed (100-100000071BOX)RAM G.Skill RipJaws V schwarz DIMM Kit 32GB, DDR4-3200, CL16-18-18-38 (F4-3200C16D-32GVK)GPU Palit GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Dual, 8GB GDDR6, DVI, HDMI, DP (NE6206S018P2-1160A)Board MSI B550-A Pro (7C56-002R)CPU Cooler Scythe Mugen 5 [Rev. B] (SCMG-5100)Case NZXT H510 weiß, Glasfenster (CA-H510B-W1)Power be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 500W ATX 2.4 (BN297) If you see something I could save some money on tell meIf I'm saving money where I shouldn't tell me tooIf you want to brag about your own build and what you like&dislike about it be my guest:) Thank you 😘

So basically, every time I launch or playback a video in premiere or after effects my pc bluescreens. The blue screen error is DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations to help me fix this problem? Thanks!Heres some diagnostic info for the problem. System specs:i9 7900x overclocked to 4.6ghz on all 10 cores  ---- note, its stable and i have the issue on default clock speed.2x Nvidia GeForce Titan Xp --- august driver cuz the new ones don't like java for some reason lol2x Samsung 960 Pro 2tb SSD8x 16 G.skill something ram --- tried swapping all dim slots & changing out ram.Asus x299 Motherboard ---- tried to reset biosOS: Windows 10 Build: 1709 (OS Build 16299.192)Side notes: I have reinstalled windows. I have also tried earlier graphics drivers, I tried swapping my GPU's and ram. No luck.I would really appreciate it if someone helped me, Thanks!

Hi Guys, My son needs a laptop for his school work and needs to run the latest Adobe PS and Premiere software. Could you tell me if a laptop with Windows 10, Core i7 10th gen CPU, SSD HD, 16GB ram and a dedicated Nvidia GTX 1650 graphic card will work well for the next 3 years? My budget is limited to € 1000,- Thanks for your opinion. Eric

Hello, I'm about to buy the 2020 iMac 27 inch, 3.8GHZ intel core i7 processor, 8GB RAM (will upgrade to 64GB), and wanted to know if there is much difference with graphics cards Radeon Pro 5700 xt vs Radeon Pro 5700 when it comes to rendering and exporting in Premiere?  There seems to be a big jump in quality from the base model to the 5700 xt but not so much to the 5700.  Would appreciate some input. Thanks! 

I was searching for tips to improving video editing performance (Premiere Pro and After Effects) on the internet. I came across these two videos which are quite unique out there. I kept searching blogs and  youtube for some backing up for this but couldn't find any.  But out of desperation, I went and did this anyway. According to my personal experience, I couldn't find much difference in performance. If anything, AE and PP was crashing more often. Although this could be because of multitude of factors as I was nearing completion for this video with a lot of graphics. So, with my limited technical knowledge, I can't blame it on tweaking these settings. So, I am posting it here. Please shed light on this. It would not only help me but many other beginners like me with mediocre PC trying to improve performance. Thanks