Posted by:
jon
February 3, 2009 11:59 AM
So it's getting to be that time for Windows OS 64 bit upgrades. God I remember (though I'd prefer not to), months of utter frustration for me and my clients, upgrading Windows 2K to XP Pro. So I figure I'd share a few hints to make everything go a little bit smoother. (
Read More)
Posted by:
jon
January 15, 2009 11:33 AM
As you’ve undoubtedly heard,
Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Production Premium delivers some awesome productivity benefits, particularly the ability to send Premiere Pro sequences to both the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) and Adobe Encore for rendering or authoring while continuing to edit in Premiere Pro. Perhaps what you haven’t heard is that this capability significantly increases CS4 (
Read More)
Posted by:
jon
January 12, 2009 11:00 AM
Last month, we compared Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) performance on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems, finding that 64-bit proved superior in nearly all tests (see part 1 and part 2). This month, in our quest to identify the optimal CS4 configuration, we look at graphic chip manufacturer Nvidia’s Quadro CX technology—which, according to Nvidia’s website, “is the accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4—giving creative professionals the performance, tools, and reliability they need to maximize thei (
Read More)
Posted by:
jim
December 23, 2008 9:53 AM
In this month’s first installment, I discussed the technical aspects of 64-bit computing as it related to Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) performance. In this installment, I’ll detail the head to head tests between a 2.83GHz HP xw6600 workstation running Windows XP (32-bit version) with 3GB of RAM and a 3.33GHz HP xw8600 workstation running 64-bit Vista with 16GB of RAM. Both workstations have dual, quad-core processors for a total of eight cores. (
Read More)
Posted by:
jim
December 10, 2008 2:35 PM
So there I was, testing Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4)’s AVCHD compatibility. I created a simple project, about 4 minutes long, two picture-in-picture overlays with simple rotation and color correction. I had two eight-core systems: the Windows workstation a 2.83GHz HP xw6600 running Windows XP (32-bit version) with 3GB of RAM, and a 3.2GHz Mac running OS X version 10.5.5 with 8GB of RAM. (
Read More)