Premiere Pro 1.5 not Multi-Threaded?

[daveoggy]

Premiere doesn't seem to take advantage of my dual processor system. The CPU useage never goes above 50%. This is especially annoying when rendering a sequence. Has anyone else noticed this and/or found a fix?

[daveoggy]

Obviously a hot topic!

I've just encoded some video using the x264 codec. I made damn sure to set the threads to 2, and guess what!? Adobe Premiere now uses 90%+ of my total processing horsepower.

So next i try the blackmagic codec, and guess what!? Nothing, 'nada', zip; 50% maximum CPU usage! Should I really accept single treaded 'professional' codecs as acceptable?

That said I've still yet to see adobe use my extra CPU off it's own back...

[defaulk9]

I believe premiere pro is multi-threaded. I've read tests where this has shown to be the case, but I can't remember where or I'd link you to them. I'm 99% sure though that it is capable of using dual processors. But my guess is you won't see this utilization unless you are doing a lot of premiere-intensive tasks, as opposed to encoder-intensive. Apply effects. Lots of them. put on titles. Anything that makes for a lot of render processing and then you might see some benefit. Anyway, articles that I've read have suggested that you aren't going to get the rendering done twice as fast.

If premiere is using an encoder that is single-threaded, there is not much it can do to utilize both cpu's, at least for the encoding aspect I would imagine.