Editing PC

chucklebee · 24 May 2016 at 12:07

Hello there. I'm looking to start my own video production company and I'd like to build my own PC but everything is seriously confusing me and I've no idea where to start.

I'm looking to run premiere pro, and rendering time will be important as I'd like to get it done as soon as possible. If something is essential I would be happy paying for it but wherever possible I'd like to save money too. I'm going to set a budget of £1000 give or take. If the budget is too small I'll review and increase it.

Thanks.

Biz.Kid09 · 24 May 2016 at 14:10

Do you need monitor, speakers, headphone, mouse and keyboard and operating system etc all included in that 1000 or is that separate.

joeyjojo · 24 May 2016 at 14:10

You don't need much to start with, an i5 or i7 Intel CPU*, 16 GB of RAM, and plenty of SSD storage will serve you well.

* I don't personally think hyperthreading is worth the cost increase but if the budget allows it does give a boost.

chucklebee · 25 May 2016 at 12:13

Biz.Kid09 said:
Do you need monitor, speakers, headphone, mouse and keyboard and operating system etc all included in that 1000 or is that separate.

I was thinking it would be included but like I said if I need to review my budget I will.

chucklebee · 25 May 2016 at 12:14

joeyjojo said:
You don't need much to start with, an i5 or i7 Intel CPU*, 16 GB of RAM, and plenty of SSD storage will serve you well.

* I don't personally think hyperthreading is worth the cost increase but if the budget allows it does give a boost.

I understand CPUs and RAM I think but what video and sound cards would be the best or does that not really matter as much?

joeyjojo · 26 May 2016 at 08:55

chucklebee said:
I understand CPUs and RAM I think but what video and sound cards would be the best or does that not really matter as much?

AFAIK graphics card depends on the version of premiere and how many effects/filters you might use as it mainly helps speed up editing. The latest (CC) supports CUDA and OpenCL so you can use pretty much any card:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

They're not specifically listed but Maxwell cards and AMD 300 series should work fine. I dare say a GTX 960 or R9 370/380 would be plenty.

Sound card depends on your speakers/amp etc. but if you have to ask the motherboard sound card will probably be fine.