Soldato
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Hi all i've got a few questions regarding a video editing PC for my friend, sorry for the wall of text and my ramblings as i'm not 100% what i'm even asking but i'll start with some background anyway..
TLDR: What effects video editing the most CPU/GPU or thread count/higher frequency cores?
My friend lives in Berlin and is just about to go free lance as a photographer/videographer, I've always built his PC's for him when he was back in the UK but his rig is about 5 years old now and as he'll be spending some serious cash on the latest 4K video gear (Canon 1DX MK2 etc) he'll need something better to edit on i feel.
His current specs are a 2nd gen i5, 8GB of DDR3 on a Z77 motherboard, 120GB SSD, he did have my old Geforce 8800gt until that died so he's currently using the onboard GFX.. He has a Creative Cloud subscription so he'll be using the latest versions of photoshop, premier pro & after effects.
My big question is what impacts the speed & fluidity of video editing the most? i've no idea how GPU or CPU bound Premier Pro/After effects are? Most things i've read seem to focus on the render times at the end which isn't really of a huge concern as he's happy to let things render over night but what he does want more than anything is to not have any stutters or lag when he's actually editing 4K video.
Biggest issue i have is his budget which is around £750 but i think i can push him to about a grand all in but that'll have to include everything, Windows 10, case, PSU etc.
I was thinking of going Ryzen for the extra threads with an NVMe SSD for windows and scratch folder but i don't know if we'd be better off with a faster 'per clock' intel chip for the fluidity of editing? Then there's what GFX card, i keep seeing about premier supporting CUDA so i assume it's team green all the way with this but how far do we need to go? I have an old GTX 560Ti sitting around he could have but does it need to be a newer generation to support whatever premier needs?
Oh yeah then at the end there's the issue of him not being in the UK so i'll have to try and find a German supplier of everything or just pay the £60 odd quid Overclockers & DHL want to ship it all over there.
Specs im currently thinking:
Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600
B350 Motherboard
16GB DDR4 (maybe 3200 if we can stretch the budget)
240gb NVMe drive
GTX 1050 2GB (I have a GTX 560Ti he can have to save some cash but don't know if it'd be good enough?)
Cheap case
Cheap but decent brand 500ish watt PSU
Windows 10
lots of hope that i can make him built it himself with me on the other end of skype
flight to Berlin after the above fails miserably
Any help appreciated!
TLDR: What effects video editing the most CPU/GPU or thread count/higher frequency cores?
My friend lives in Berlin and is just about to go free lance as a photographer/videographer, I've always built his PC's for him when he was back in the UK but his rig is about 5 years old now and as he'll be spending some serious cash on the latest 4K video gear (Canon 1DX MK2 etc) he'll need something better to edit on i feel.
His current specs are a 2nd gen i5, 8GB of DDR3 on a Z77 motherboard, 120GB SSD, he did have my old Geforce 8800gt until that died so he's currently using the onboard GFX.. He has a Creative Cloud subscription so he'll be using the latest versions of photoshop, premier pro & after effects.
My big question is what impacts the speed & fluidity of video editing the most? i've no idea how GPU or CPU bound Premier Pro/After effects are? Most things i've read seem to focus on the render times at the end which isn't really of a huge concern as he's happy to let things render over night but what he does want more than anything is to not have any stutters or lag when he's actually editing 4K video.
Biggest issue i have is his budget which is around £750 but i think i can push him to about a grand all in but that'll have to include everything, Windows 10, case, PSU etc.
I was thinking of going Ryzen for the extra threads with an NVMe SSD for windows and scratch folder but i don't know if we'd be better off with a faster 'per clock' intel chip for the fluidity of editing? Then there's what GFX card, i keep seeing about premier supporting CUDA so i assume it's team green all the way with this but how far do we need to go? I have an old GTX 560Ti sitting around he could have but does it need to be a newer generation to support whatever premier needs?
Oh yeah then at the end there's the issue of him not being in the UK so i'll have to try and find a German supplier of everything or just pay the £60 odd quid Overclockers & DHL want to ship it all over there.
Specs im currently thinking:
Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600
B350 Motherboard
16GB DDR4 (maybe 3200 if we can stretch the budget)
240gb NVMe drive
GTX 1050 2GB (I have a GTX 560Ti he can have to save some cash but don't know if it'd be good enough?)
Cheap case
Cheap but decent brand 500ish watt PSU
Windows 10
lots of hope that i can make him built it himself with me on the other end of skype
flight to Berlin after the above fails miserably
Any help appreciated!
