1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 19, 2014 3:57 PM by R Neil Haugen RSS

    How much memory can Premiere Pro use on a new Mac Pro?

    Mr. Positronic Community Member

      I'm ready to upgrade memory on my Mac Pro Late 2013 6-core.  Does PP CC 2014 have a limit on how much RAM it can use?  Some apps never use more than a certain amount, so I don't want to buy a lot of memory if PP will never put it to work.  (I made that mistake when I was an FCP user.)  Is there a limit and if so, what?

       

      Also, are there any Mac Pro users who have an opinion on optimum RAM?  I currently have 16GB (4x4GB) with 10GB reserved for PP.  I am in the middle of a very large project and have noticed some irregularities and spinning balls.  I assume that they are from memory shortage since quitting all other apps and restarting PP seems to fix the issue.

        • 1. Re: How much memory can Premiere Pro use on a new Mac Pro?
          R Neil Haugen Community Member

          Not a Mac expert here ... but I do know there's folks running 64G ram and so going up from 16 will work fine. Now ... as to which is the "choke-point" ... that's a bit more techie than I can answer off the bat.

           

          The Adobe video apps can put a pretty good strain on all of the computer's hardware, and "balancing" the assets of the hardware to the usage patterns of the software is always the trick. Memory never hurts ... but if the spinning ball is a video-ram problem, changing mobo ram isn't going to do much. The various areas they go into great detail on within the pages of the "Tweakers Page" (found within these forums threads, check the hardware forum) are of course, mobo, chip/s & cores, ram, disc in-outs & arrays/layout of project/footage & program files, video card & ram.

           

          Your problem might be best solved by more RAM; it might be that it's a disc read/write issue and either more internal or eSATA II discs to spread read/write processes over would be best ... or taking an array of discs and using a fast multi-disk RAID array to speed things up even faster, or a video card upgrade.

           

          So ... where you might want to go is the the Hardware Forum and give your computers complete specs, including disc layout and usage, and see what folks there think needs tweaking.

           

          Neil