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bupphaw56970496
bupphaw56970496
Inspiring
March 30, 2018
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Re: Cannot install Premier Pro?

  • March 30, 2018
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I have just bought a new laptop because the old one doesn't have enough space to accommodate adobe premier pro. My new lap top has the following which I'm not sure if it can be used with adobe premier pro or not?:

  • RAM: 4 GB / Storage: 1 TB HDD
  • Intel® Pentium® Gold 4415U Processor
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    Peru Bob
    Community Expert
    Peru BobCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 30, 2018

    I branched this to a new discussion and moved it to the Hardware forum.

    bupphaw56970496
    bupphaw56970496Author
    Inspiring
    March 31, 2018

    Thanks for your prompt response, Peru Bob! I found on this link the requirements for adobe premier pro, Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements

    Windows

    • Multicore processor with 64-bit support
    • Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit) or Windows 8.1 (64 bit), or Windows 10 (64 bit)
    • Supporting Windows 10 Creator Edition & Dial
    • 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
    • 8 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
    • 1280x800 display (1920x1080 or larger recommended)
    • Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
    • Optional: Adobe-recommended GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance
    • Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*

    And my laptop has the following which I don't know if I can use with adobe premier pro anyway?:

    • Processor- Intel® Pentium® 4415U Processor
      - Dual-core
      - 1.4 GHz / 2.3 GHz (Turbo Boost)
      - 2 MB cache
      RAM4GB DDR4 (16 GB maximum installable RAM)
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    RjL190365
    Legend
    March 31, 2018

    The best thing that you can do with that slow laptop would be to max out the system's RAM. You may need to remove the existing pre-installed 4 GB in order to install the full 16 GB of RAM in it. That Pentium CPU is about as slow as my Haswell-generation i5-4210U laptop, and its Intel HD Graphics 610 has too few shader processors to even enable OpenCL GPU acceleration at all.

    In addition, get yourself an external USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 SSD such as a Samsung T5. That single HDD by itself simply won't do for video editing: With all of the OS housekeeping going on continuously on that single internal HDD, you'll never achieve more than about 32 MB/s in disk I/O throughput out of that drive (this is with rendering in Premiere Pro with everything, including the OS, programs, cache, projects, media and exports, put on that single HDD). That's way below the 120-ish MB/s that it's capable of.

    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 30, 2018

    That amount of RAM will not run Premiere Pro CC.  You really should have at least 24 GB as a practical minimum, althought depending upon your media and effects used, 12 GB RAM might work.

    The processor is only a dual core processor with 4 threads, also not enough to run Premiere Pro properly.

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