Premier 5.1 and dual cpu?

[coolfish]

Premiere is a bad port offa the Apple OS there. You're expecting too much from it.

[jailbird]

i'm also running premiere 5.1 RT on a dual celeron winNT, and it also does not use more than 50 percent of the cpu. is there any software that does take advantage of dual processors? mediastudio?

[CeD]

Premier 5.1 and dual cpu?

Why don't premier take advantage of dual cpu in nt 4.0? When I make a movie premier never use more then 50% of both cpu.

[miker]

Premiere doesn't use more than 50% of each CPU ... sounds like it might be sharing to me

Seriously though multi-CPU support has always been lacking from a lot of software. Makes you wonder why Win2K Expensive Edition will support 32 processors

Roll on 64bit software...

[salacious]

It says on the Adobe web site that

Multi-threaded performance: Transparency takes advantage of dual processors for faster compile times

Have you checked the task manager why trying this?

Salacious

[DrMordrid]

I've stared a hole into my system resources monitor while using Premiere 5.1a/c RT and I've come to some conclusions;

1. the windows version is a HORRID port (duh).

2. Premiere's resource management is totally WHACK.

Dr. Mordrid

[Stewman]

I agree, Premiere on Windows used to be good, but the latest releases have not been upto snuff. I believe that they are working on a redesign for 6.0.

So user complaints have not fallen on deaf ears.

-Stew

[Isrite]

any of you tried 5.1LE?
I still don't like it.

[Walrus]

As a note: You can "take advantage" of dual cpus under NT whether or not the programs support it. The trick is to run two instances of the same program (if you can) each assigned to it's own processor or to run another program in another processor. (you can assign which chip each program works on through task manager, right click on the task and choose "Set affinity") You're not going to get 50% usage on both tasks (usually) but you will likely find a gain in doing things this way.
64-bitness in software isn't going to affect anything in regards to SMP support. In theory 8-bit software could be designed to handle multiple processors. It's really just an issue of if a program is designed correctly to multi-thread in such a manner that the tasks can be broken up onto different processors well. VERY little Win32 software does this well. (in fact, only the RC5 distributed.net client does it well on my system)
The only advantage to 64-bit software I can think of is easily addressing more than 4 gb of memory.. though I don't think this will be a pressing need for at least 5 years. (How many years ago did Bill Gates claim that 640K ought to be enough for everyone?)