Premiere Pro Use only 40-60% of CPU

JH6 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-14-2007, 04:33 PM

Hello Everybody.

I’m using Adobe Premier for a while now but recently I bought a new PC. My old one was getting a bit slow. My new configuration is:

2x Dualcore Intel Xeon 5130 2 Ghz
S5000XVN motherboard
2 GB of Fully Buffered ECC DDR2 SDRAM
Nvidia Geforce 7950GT 512 MB
10000 RPM hard drive for operating system
7200 RPM hard drives for editing material.

I suppose this is should be a fast system to render in Adobe Premier Pro 2.0. But when I try to render a project CPU usage is only between 40% and 60%.
Is this normal that Adobe Premier Pro use only that amount. Because my previous system always used 100%.

Can anyone tell me if this is normal? Or is there a solution to this to make adobe premier use 100%.

Thanks.

irishmark · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 09:01 AM

This is good! - Your old system used 100% which means it struggled with rendering. The fc=act that your new system is only using 40-60% shows that your new system is better suited to editing.

JH6 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 01:14 PM

Okay. I new my nes system was mush better. But I expaced that it would use all the proccessing power available. Or does that depend on other matters.

Alan Mills · #4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by JH6

Okay. I new my nes system was mush better.

I'll have a pint of whatever he's drinking! sorry. Couldn't resist.

JH6 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Alan Mills

I'll have a pint of whatever he's drinking! sorry. Couldn't resist.

Ow, Sorry

. Typed in a bit of a hurry. I ment that I knew that my new system was mush better than my previous one.

Mark W · #6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 03:42 PM

I have a core duo / vegas - rendering is often only 60%, sometimes 100% - my guess is that as processors have become faster that bottlenecks occur with memory / disc access. Maths intensive renders go to 100% (lots of fx) but simple dv to dv renders are often 60%.

JH6 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 03:54 PM

Maybe you’re right. My hard drive’s aren’t that fast and aren’t a Raid Array. So that may slow the rendering down.
So, if I add more effects and more video layers, the usage off my processors my go up because that is more maths intensive?

Mark W · #8 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 04:07 PM

Maybe - only guessing - I wouldnt worry too much. I am very pleased that I can render and carry on using the pc for other things, even editing in another vegas window and a load of other b ground tasks and my pc still doesnt glitch.

JH6 · #9 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 04:30 PM

That right. And when I am editing everything runs smoothly. And I take full advantage of my processors when rendering something in 3dmax or Maya. So I am pretty pleased whit this computer. But I was just wondering why adobe premier didn’t use the full 100%.

Marc Peters · #10 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by JH6

That right. And when I am editing everything runs smoothly. And I take full advantage of my processors when rendering something in 3dmax or Maya. So I am pretty pleased whit this computer. But I was just wondering why adobe premier didn’t use the full 100%.

I shouldn't really comment as I'm entering realms of no knowledge, but could it be that Premiere isn't multi-threaded optimised and is therefore only using one core to do the rendering (and therefore only 50% would be used)?