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RexRed
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September 20, 2017
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Premiere and the new Intel i9 processors

  • September 20, 2017
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Will Premiere and After Effects be able to make use of 18 cores (36 core multi-threaded) 64 bit processors?

If not, then this should be a huge priority for the developers to tackle... Dropped frames and sluggish performance when working on multi layered projects seems to limit most projects I work on these days. The programs slow to a halt if you have more than one two layers playing at once (at least on my rig) even when the playback is set to 1/4 this does not help overcome this processor bottleneck.When I link an edited file from After Effects to Premiere it is even much worse...

I use Prodad effects and those also are processor hungry.

All of my projects are on hold because my processor is just too slow to work with several layers at once. We need multi-processor load balancing ASAP Adobe.

It will be terrible if I purchase an Intel 18 core processor and Adobe has not caught up to utilize the new processor count.

As it is my processor fan winds up at the slightest use of Premiere and the performance is remarkably abysmal.

I do only have a 4 core, 64 bit un-threaded Intel processor, I need some serious horsepower and 4 more cores are just not going to cut the mustard.

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    RexRed
    RexRedAuthor
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    September 20, 2017

    Thank you for the great tech support here peeps!

    I will probably upgrade to the Intel 18 core i9 and wait 'til the software catches up to it.

    It will definitely be an improvement to what I have now, even with my 500GB SSD the PC performance leaves much to be desired.

    What does Premiere benefit from the most? I am sure it is an "all of the above" type of thing to prevent bottlenecks.

    Also with 18 cores it would be nice to be able to still use my PC for other things while rendering out a project.

    Rendering should definitely make use of many cores...

    Playback while meshing layered effects? Boggles my mind... Is it GPU or CPU intensive?

    A pre-made (I don't build them anymore, just upgrade) i9 PC will come with the latest GPU and tons of ram...

    The GPU and CPU will theoretically be the fastest the market has to offer... So 64GB ram?

    This will probably be overkill if Adobe is not ready to make use of the CPU's... But my Cakewalk Sonar music software with "load balancing" makes use of 88 cores!

    I will look into this "proxy workflow" aspect too, thanks for the suggestion... Will look it up on YouTube. If you can link me to a tutorial on proxy workflows please do. I do not like pre-rendering clips because it is destructive and going back to tweak things becomes a hassle... but, if it would free up some headroom then that may be my only workaround at this point.

    Any more advice on this topic is greatly appreciated!

    Again thanks for the tips peeps!

    Inspiring
    September 20, 2017

    Proxy workflow overview:

    Basic Premiere Pro editing workflow

    MtD

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    September 20, 2017

    I found going from four to six cores an immense lift, and then from the 970 to 1060/6Gb another major lift. Running 32GB of new RAM also. All on internal SSD drives, though your AE work would push this. Just as a comparison.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    Inspiring
    September 20, 2017

    RexRed  wrote

    All of my projects are on hold because my processor is just too slow to work with several layers at once.

    Have you considered using a proxy workflow?

    MtD

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2017

    Dont think proxy will help with Prodad plugins.

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2017

    This is an open forum with "some" Adobe staff participation, use the links below to make a report

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform for feature requests or bug reports

    -or Feedback forum https://forums.adobe.com/community/creative_cloud/desktop-app/content