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HobbyPoor
HobbyPoor
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February 14, 2019
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Built a Legacy System

  • February 14, 2019
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I built my kid a system he can use to do some edits from his GoPro cameras. It has Premiere Pro 2.0 that I had purchased and never even unwrapped until this past weekend. It will serve him well for the things he wants to do. 2 questions I have that Ide like to get some clarification on...

1. Does PP 2.0 use more CPU or Ram or GPU or which combo. His system is a 4 core 3.0 with 4 gigs of ram and 1 gig GPU Nividia. Which would show the best increase first...more ram, video card?....CPU is pretty well decided as is. He mainly edits 1080p footage with few title overlays. It seems to work great, but if we could get littler boost for little money that be great. I built the system from spare pieces we had laying around......

2. whats are some of the better transition packs and other plug-ins for PP 2.0....I have A LOT of transitions from premiere 6.5 and earlier but as we know dont work, or work without work arounds.......Transtions and such as Hollywood FX and other "packaged" kits are whats hes looking for

thanks!

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    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 14, 2019

    Ppro 2.0 probably wont handle gopro 1080p despite the pc.

    Ppro2 was designed for XP and at most HDV.

    Dont think kids will be looking for Hollywood FX transitions (too oldfashioned).

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    February 14, 2019

    Here's the problem:

    PP 2.0 (not CS2) does not support GoPro footage at all. Therefore, you have just wasted your time, and possibly money, in building that legacy system. And if it can't run anything newer than Windows XP, it will have severe security holes that will forever remain unpatched. And that's not to mention that that extremely archaic version of PP may not run at all on any newer operating system.

    Therefore, it would be way better to scrap that system entirely and save money towards the purchase of an entirely new prebuilt with much more up-to-date components. (And yes, I do mean even a cheap dual-core Pentium G5xxx-series CPU-based one.)

    HobbyPoor
    HobbyPoorAuthor
    Participant
    February 14, 2019

    1. We pass the footage thru a high speed converter and converts it perfect.....(just a short extra step to convert to a PP compatible file)

    2. its actually running windows 7 and premiere is operating on it perfectly....I flashed the bios...all is well

    We are and have been editing a good bit and havent had hickup one....well except the firewire card i installed and could not get it to install...Come to find out for some reason it was a win95 only card.

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    February 14, 2019

    You might have been lucky there, but do be aware that most converters to a format that's compatible with PP 2.0 will degrade image quality - sometimes severely. GoPro 1080p footage is 1920x1080, but PP 2.0 is limited to 1440x1080 resolution IIRC, and only interlaced footage at that resolution (no progressive scan support at that resolution).

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