upgrade to premier pro?

[Krista]

Hi I just joined today. I have been editing for 2 years using 2.0....however I just jumped into a project that I am needing some info for. I have started editing an outdoors T.V. show. this will air ideally after the news on Sunday night. I need to upgrade I think cause 2.0 doesn't have enough memory available. Atleast I keep getting low memory and probably I have too much in my media file...(4 hours video and photos etc. .) I think I am going to need some fancier layering abilitiies aswell...my question do I go to premier pro or just upgrade to 5.0 or something. would appreciate some advice. thank you

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Krista, Welcome to muvipix

If you are getting a low memory error message with Premiere Elements it won't help any to go to Premiere Pro. Please let us know what your system specs are, that will help us try to figure out the error.

There isn't much that you can do with Pro that can't be done with Premiere Elements. For additional layering capability you may want to look at After Effects instead, a great tool that works very well with Premiere Elements or Premiere Pro.

It may be that you might want to upgrade to Version 3 but let's see what you can do with v2 after you get the memory error fixed.

[Krista]

Thank you for your quick reply....My computer was built for me...here is what I know 3000+1.8ghz 2gb RAM I am not sure where to find the video information....I am not hardware savvy sorry.

[Krista]

I would also like to know what system requirements you reccommend. I would like to try and work stress free...since I work from home and have kids I have to remain somewhat sane for!!!1 I would love to upgrade to 3.0 and add after effects aswell. That sounds like a great plan. Please let me know and I will get your book and study study study....thanx again!!!1

[Chuck Engels]

I am thinking you are talking about a AMD Athlon XP 3000 which would be a 1.8ghz processor, pretty slow for video editing these days.

I suggest you find a machine with at least a 3.0ghz processor, here are a couple articles that will help.

http://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/source/archive.htm

Check out both of the Chuck's Corner articles. The one that recommends computer specs is a little old but will still work although what was on the high end then is now on the low end. A Core Duo or any dual core processor would be a great step up.

[Krista]

I only have 1 project in PE2 but it is rather large...MACC files 7.43 gb rendered files 5.9gb media cach files 7.43gb....is there a way to downsize....would archiving help me? If I archive can I get rid of my existing project media and still edit it?

I am looking into the dell xps, but only the top of the line has XP ..any other suggestions? I am so grateful for all advice thank you!!!!!

[Chuck Engels]

Here is another topic about Dell and the option for XP instead of Vista, looks like they are changing. They will have a couple of Dimensions that will offer XP also http://muvipix.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=2690#2690

Archiving won't make any difference, the only thing that will help is to break your project into small pieces, say several 10 - 20 minute projects.
Then you can put them all together when you are done.

You are still going to have a tough time until you get another system with a little more power