Jeff: (chuckle) I feel your pain! Summary: Your computer isn't going to please you.
Options: You have 2 main choices that depend if you need to produce a project in HD. Seriously, most DVDs are just shown in SD. One choice is to shoot in HDV and edit in and export in SD (usually there is an export to DV option in your camera). If you really, really need HD output (and that means buying something that'll burn Blu-Ray DVDs) then it is obvious that your system doesn't meet the requirements for such a Blu-Ray Burner and you're going to have to upgrade. Now: My story, I love Premier 1.5! AND, it ran well on my little older PC. BUT, now to get almost the same performance from my HDV editing, I've gone to dual-quad cores 3+gig speed with 8Gig of ram, AND it still gets bogged down sometimes. BTW: I'm using CS3 on a Mac Pro. Again: if you're delivering your product on DVD, consider keeping to PP1.5 and Standard Def. or plan to get a new computer. Bonus Round: I edited some HDV last week in Scotland on my host's i-mac with i-movieHD installed (like windows movie maker) and was amazed that it worked! AND it even previewed the video on import on the computer monitor (with "free software"). Sorry Adobe, I do love your product, but it's time to look over your shoulder at the other players who might offer stable easy use, and tempting features. Hope this helps, Robin Edwards San Francisco --- In [email protected], "Jeff Goin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm editing hdv for the first time and using premiere elements 4.0. > Premiere 1.5 on my old computer was plenty fast for dv projects of > yore, but elements is running so slow it is unusable. If I leave the > elements window to run another program, when returning to elements it > takes up to 40 seconds to be responsive. > > Is my Dell 1520 1.46 Ghz processor and 2.49 GB RAM that inadequate? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Jeff G. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
