Premiere and RAM vs. Vegas and RAM

xoverburnx · Post by **xoverburnx** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:29 pm

Premiere is a RAM hog and will crash (well... just close leaving no trace of ever being open)

but Vegas on the otherhand - which I'm newer at - seems much friendlier with RAM and faster.

Any experience on this?

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:12 pm

Any adobe product is a ram whore. Vegas four does relatively well with ram, only using about 30,000k to 40,000k... premiere uses relatively 50,000k to 60,000k. Vegas 6, on the other hand uses about 40,000k + because of the media manager they've added. Also, when vegas is 'working' like, rendering, it can run up to about 120,000k depending on which.

So, both programs have the same 'ram' usage... it depends on how the program 'works' when it comes to rendering and playback. I don't have Premiere issues, I just don't like its interface.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:45 pm

Video editing period is RAM-intensive. There's no way around it.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:17 pm

If you're working with lossless source you're looking at playing video with like 25mb per second. Just previewing that will use a lot more ram. Like hundreds and hundreds of megs.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:21 pm

random crashes are rare for me on premiere - they happen usually when i run variuos other things while im trying to render with prem or if i'm messing around with plug-ins (ie. trying to run AE effects in the program

).

xoverburnx · Post by **xoverburnx** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:56 pm

I agree with what everyone has said. When vegas is rendering you should be somewhere else eating chicken, premiere on the otherhand is trying to render all your effects at the same time just when u want to play it.. vegas will just show it to you at low resolution at the right speed

do the exact same amount of layering, blending and effects in premiere and in vegas and see which one is faster... vegas 6, and that damn media manager + .net frameworks usage = ram whore

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:06 pm

Vegas doesn't playback at a low quality, its whatever setting you set the preview playback to be. You can set it at low or at the best quality. -_-

xoverburnx · Post by **xoverburnx** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:26 pm

Ladymercury wrote:Vegas doesn't playback at a low quality, its whatever setting you set the preview playback to be. You can set it at low or at the best quality. -_-

I noticed that, the default "preview (auto)" is what I am mentioning

King_Cold · Post by **King_Cold** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:57 am

Well, you can disable the media manager. It's that simple, lol. And, I never really checked how much of my ram was being used, but all I can say is try to open 3 instances of Premiere each containing a big project...

That's what I thought