Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 05/03/06 19:15

On 5/03/2006, Davey Boy 2 posted this:
> "PTravel" <ptravel@ruyitang.com> wrote in message
> news:4bq5meF12lfrqU1@individual.net...
>>I have, for a couple of years, muddled through editing projects in Premiere
>> Pro on my 3 Ghz P4 with 512 meg of RAM. Last night, I added another 512
>> meg, bringing my total memory up to 1 gig. Premiere Pro absolutely sings!
>> I'm not experiencing the slowing that used to happen when projects got long
>> and, best of all, Pro shuts down instantly when I'm done, instead of
>> churning away for up to 5 minutes after I hit exit.
>>
>> This is probably not news to most folks, but for those who are a bit thick
>> like me, blow out your RAM as much as you can. The difference between 512
>> meg and 1 gig is night and day.
>
> I took the plunge and upgrade my P4 notebook from 512 to 2gb and the
> difference to Premier (in fact all of the production suite) was incredible.
>
> Others may frown on this but I have a seperate USB drive for my editing drive
> - I have no problem with dropped frames at all and it stops the O/S drive
> becoming defreagged even more than it needs to.
>
> Dave

I don't frown on that. Sounds like a great plan to me!

Just be sure it's USB 2 :-)

I think a lot of posters here would agree with your method, even on
desktop computers, for that matter.

Gino

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