Premier Pro and After Effects on Integrated Graphics

[AndrewLikesBacon34]

I'm running on Integrated Graphics, is it possible to use Premier Pro and After Effects with integrated graphics?  I'm not looking to do anything fancy, just play around with home videos and what not. Any wisdom would be really appreciated.  Thank you.

[Abambo]

Sure, it will run. You may, however, not being able to use GPU processing.GPU processing accelerates some activities drastically.

[Abambo]

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[RjL190365]

It depends on the age of your system, and the brand of CPU and the type and performance level of the integrated graphics. Some of the newer types of integrated graphics actually perform pretty good for what they are, although no match for even a mediocre discrete GPU. Other, very-low-end integrated graphics have too few processing units to even enable GPU acceleration at all.

[AndrewLikesBacon34]

The computer I have is an 7th Gen i5, 8 GB of ram, and it's about 6 or 7 months old I'm guessing.  Thank you so much for the info.

[RjL190365]

You may want to upgrade your system's RAM to 16 GB. This is because the integrated Intel HD Graphics 620 (in most mobile i5 CPUs) or 630 (in most desktop i5's) steals a small portion of the system RAM for itself, and if the amount of RAM that's available to programs gets reduced below 8 GB due to the theft of system RAM just for the IGP, Premiere Pro may semi-permanently lock the MPE renderer to the software-only mode.

[AndrewLikesBacon34]

I have a pretty limited budget.  Do you think my money would be better invested with getting some RAM or Graphics Card?

[RjL190365]

In your case, you might need several upgrades just to get its performance reasonably comfortable. If your system currently has only a single spinning hard disk with no additional internal or external disks whatsoever, then you will need to add additional disks. Beyond that, I would add more RAM before adding a GPU.

[AndrewLikesBacon34]

Thank you very much for taking so much time to help me out with all of this.

[Abambo]

Laptops are quite difficult to upgrade, but I chose RAM before graphics.

[Abambo]

AndrewLikesBacon34  wrote

8 GB of ram

This is really limit. ADobe now recommends having 32Gb for lesser tasks... But again, the program will run... well let's say walk...