Processors

[Ted Pietrzyk]

In Adobe Premiere Elements forum ,I was welcome by Chuck Engels to drop some line on muvipix forum. Here I am.
I need explanation about processors. For example Adobe Premiere Elements version 4 require for H.D. Pentim 4 3.0 GHz or compatible. What is compatible?
I am asking because I went to Dell outlet stor and faund machine with Dual 2 Xeon 3.75 GHz. Try to get information about motherboard to figure out What I need to get , to upgrade to my needs. Dell can't give me nothing specific besides motherboard was made by them. After browsing some sources and when I was ready to buy , this machine was gone. They have others with Dual 2 Xeon speed and Quad Core Xeon also with slower speed. I can't figure out what equivalent in term of performance will be to Pentium 4 3.0 GHz. Is anyway to estimate this? What about machine with two dual processors in two sckets , are they O.K. for video editing with Adobe Premiere Elements?

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Ted,
Thanks for dropping by

Any dual Core machine will be fine, I have a dual, dual core Xeon 3.0ghz machine and love it.
That is more than enough power for HDV or any video editing for that matter. The bigger the better if you are dealing with HDV footage.

By equivalent them mean similar AMD processor model, that's all.

If there is anything else we can do just let us know. Some of the members that are editing HDV footage will probably post some suggestions also

[Paul LS]

I use the Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo (dual core) for HDV work and Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad (quad core) for AVCHD work. Not as powerfull as Chuck's beast but more affordable. I think Chuck's machine will still be "fast" the day he retires ( I hear it was his 35th birthday the other week, by the way ).

[Chuck Engels]

I hear it was his 35th birthday the other week

That's right, but I was 16 when I was born

[hpharley90]

That's right, but I was 16 when I was born

I hate when that happens.

[Bob]

I need explanation about processors. For example Adobe Premiere Elements version 4 require for H.D. Pentim 4 3.0 GHz or compatible. What is compatible?

In addition to the comments above, compatible means the processor has the SSE2 instruction set. That's really only an issue if you have an AMD processor. Not all AMD processors include the SSE2 instruction set, if you have or want and AMD processor check to see that it's SSE2-enabled.

As far as performance, the Intel Core2Duo E6600 is roughly 40% faster than the Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz. The quad core and multiple socket systems are faster, but it's not cut and dried. How the material you are editing can be multiprocessed will vary. The Adobe products will take advantage of multiple processors and/or multiple cores but not all tasks can drive all the cores to max utilization -- it depends on the task, the material, and other factors such as how much ram you have and your disk subsystem.

The dual socket Xenon systems are fine. Chuck uses one.

[Paul LS]

As Bob says it is not very cut and dry with PE. For example some effects only use a single core of the dual-core processor for rendering... infact some of the processor intensive color correction effects only use a single core in which case the 3.0GHz single processer would be faster. But generally during transcoding/rendering both cores are up above 95% usage.
I haven't tried my quad-core on PE but I use it with Vegas for AVCHD editing and it will use all 4 cores... it really flys.

[Ted Pietrzyk]

Thank You all. This is a lot information