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Location: Australia Budget: AUD $2,000 (+/- $200 only if significant performance boost), roughly $1500 USD. Aim: must handle 4k DSLR footage smoothly and render h.264 1080HD videos quickly. Programs: Adobe Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator). OS: Windows OS. Other details: I don't plan on playing games, apart from Minecraft and the occasional OpenEmu retro game. This will be my first PC build. Why I'm upgrading: I work in digital media, mostly graphic design and use a MacBook Pro 2013. Now due to the pandemic, I'm working from home and businesses are prioritising video content. Most of my work for the foreseeable future will be video editing and obviously my current setup is not having a good time, working with 4k DSLR footage and exporting at 1080HD. I already have the necessary peripherals so they're not included in the budget, I'm using a single 1080HD monitor. What parts do you recommend for my build? From what I understand, I need a strong CPU, GPU and 32GB RAM given I'm working with Premiere Pro and After Effects. As this is my first time building a PC, I would really appreciate some help maximising my budget.

Hey! I do 3D Modeling/Rendering as well as Video Editing at 1080p60. I'd like to upgrade my storage as I currently only have one SSD for my OS and a 1TB HDD. My budget is ~200€ I'm torn between these two SSDs, the Sabrent is a Gen4 SSD (I've got a PCIe 4.0 Motherboard) while the Samsung is Gen3 and from what I've seen the former has faster read/write speeds but I also don't know the brand. How do these two compare to each other? Is there a better different option you'd recommend? Sabrent SSD Samsung SSD Thanks!

Hi all, After viewing Taran's 2 massive video editing Premiere tutorials and his use of macros, I wanted to ask if anyone has ever automated their workflow in either Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve (the 2 platforms I plan on using). I know there is some automation with some smaller and open source video applications, but is there any chance of automation with these two major commercial editing programs? Best, Eric

My GeForce TITAN Black just died on me and i am currently in the market for a mid-range GPU for Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and mostly Premiere Pro, 4k editing, minor graphics using AE. Doing lots of color grading and a run through of effects creating glitches and such. Can anyone recommend a GPU that would provide me a smooth and efficient workflow using Adobe software. Thank you, My current build is: Intel Core I7-5960X 3.50GHZ ASUS ASUS X99-E WS LGA2011 Corsair Professional Series HX1050

I'm looking for a Windows laptop powered by AMD W/ 16 GB of RAM that can handle moderate video editing. I'm looking for something in the 15 to 17 inch range. Touch screen would be a huge plus, but not a deal-breaker. Ideally want something with the ability to do graphic intensive work for at least 4 hours on the battery at least 6hrs for office work, web browsing, and video streaming. The option of USBC charging would be fantastic for portability reasons. As a daily driver I will need a webcam. MUST WEIGH NO MORE THAN 5.5 POUNDS. full disclosure I probably would get a MacBook Pro if I did not have so many movies through Microsoft and knew for sure Dragon speech recognition software worked well on MacOS.

Budget (including currency): 1800dollar (around 140000 INR) Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly After Effects and Video Editing Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hey, So I am a motion designer based in India and need help for the upcoming PC build. I do had taken few reference from Puget systems. Based on that I do had developed a system have a look. How I really use the PC? I do have heavy work on motion graphics done on after effects and lots of its scripts and extensions. There is no 3D element been imported from cinema 4D but use 3d camera and so. There are tons of shape layers. I dont do any vfx things. I do care scrubbing and caching should be fast. Then Premiere. I dont even put a single effect. Even a simple scale animation is done in After Effects. I think best way I would describe my Premiere use is to assemble the different animation into a complete video. Then comes audition which is used for changing a lot in sounds. Also I do open both after effects and premiere at the same time. And also quite many chrome tabs (sometimes chrome eats more ram then those software LOL.) And I dont care for gaming and neither too much fancy lighting except the front of the case Cabinet : Corsair 465x RGB (Moslty due to availabelity of installing 7 fan and look. Also I already using Icue for keyboard it helps in lighting effects easily) Processor : AMD ryzen 7 3700x. Puget System told processor with high clock speed is important. Q1. Should I get 3800x? I check review and comparison I feel that its like 6-8% boost. Q2. Should I overclock whatever the CPU I purchased? I dont know anything much on overclocking and havent done in past. Motherboard : MSI X570-A PRO (Cheapest 570 motherboard I find. I dont need any fancy gaming feature and neither wifi also need many USB ports for my different pheripherals) Graphics Card : Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6gb (Puget System told graphics card wont significantly Improve the performance also raytracing wont help after effects so I dont feel to invest in that area). Q3. I also use premiere for editing. But even my slight animation is done on After effects. And just use premiere to assemble the video and dont apply any effects. Is this graphics card is fine? SMPS : Cooler Master Bronze semi modular 750w Storage : Storage 1 : 500 gb 860evo 2.5 (OS and software) Storage 2 : 500 gb 860evo 2.5 (media and scratch) Storage 1 : 250 gb 860evo 2.5 (seperate scratch OPTIONAL or later upgrade) I dont need hard drive as I already own it. This idea is still came from puget system. Q4. Should I go with NVMe for scratch? Q5. Should I have seperate scratch drive? Q6. I thought to get 1 tb of 860evo as its just a little costlier than 500gb and use that as OS, software and media drive? Ram: Corsair 64gb ddr4 3000mhzvengeance (again puget recommed 64gb) Liquid Cooler : Corsair H100i Pro Rgb Q7. Is this is enough to cool even if I learned about overclocking and do it in future? Q8. Please tell me should I need amp or not? I do use lot of music in the tracks. Dont produce my own its from music subscription service. But do need to change a lot in effects. Q9. Do I need the thermal paste for liquid cooler? Q10. Should I go with Cooler Master Master Air MA621P TR4 Edition instead of liquid cooler? Please mention the changes, tips and guide and help in whatever way possible. Thanks

Am a little bit new to this Video Editing , Should i put all videos with vegas on SSD or either vegas or the videos ? how do i put the SSD to some use.

i'm thinking about starting a youtube channel and i'm looking for something for beginners. I dont mind paying at all, just looking for some suggestions as i haven't really edited anything since high school. Also I'm using windows.

Does anyone have ANY clue what this guy is using to make his videos this smooth? I've tried my damndest to get my videos to look like this and cannot for the life of me. I record at 60 fps and render out to 60 fps but cannot achieve anything similar. I FEEL or think it is motion blur but I'm really not sure. I record and render/upload at 60FPS 1440p but if you watch the video it is almost like it has motion blur added too it. I've tried a ton of things and can't get anything close. I normally record on OBS with CQP at 15 and edit in After Effects and then render it out with a bitrate of 50 CBR through media encoder. I know this probably isn't the best place to ask but honestly I'm going to lose my mind if I don't ask others for help. x.x Here is the video in question I would contact him but he's currently in the Korean military until near the end of the year. So far I've tried the base motion blur option in AE, CC Force Motion Blur in AE, smart resample in Vegas, recording at a higher frame rate (120 to 240 fps to match my monitors refresh rate as I read this would make it replicate this "smoothness") and then trying both those options again, RSMB, Twixtor and I just cannot find how this video looks THIS smooth. If he used RSMB or Twixtor there would be warping but as far as I can see there isn't any at all. Any help or nudge in the right direction is greatly appreciated!

I'm planning to build my first desktop pc. I also want to start a youtube channel with tech related videos on my own language ( it's a market gap in my country). I'm planning the pc that can handle basic 1080p gaming and also video editing. I'm not gonna edit in 4K, so I don't need anything fancy, I just don't want 2 hours of rendering. Finally my basic question is, that will an AMD Ryzen R3 1100 with 4 cores and 3.5 GHz clock speed gonna be ok for video editing? Do you recommend buying an intel? Should I also mind the graphics card more, if I'm planning to buy a GTX 1050TI? I know that Ryzen 3 will be released in Q3, but I can wait. Don't forget to mention your thoughts on AMD Ryzen.

One of the best high end tools for 3D compositing, visual FX, motion graphics... anyone else use Flame here? One of my favorite features is the new Scene Detection workflow in the 2018 version. What's your favorite feature(s) of flame? And we just finished making a logo for a client this weekend using Flame.

Hello guys and gals, Josh here! I am a high school student who is planning on heading to collage! Awesome! But I need a computer for that sort of thing. I want it to be able to handle the following: 1440p 60 fps or above gaming Moderate to heavy heavy video editing at 1080-1440p I went to PC part picker after watching many videos on PC builds, and I believe this PC build will do the trick: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/JoshR2/saved/Rr7ZLk But obviously being less smart about tech, I want to know what you guys think! Please let me know if this can be considered worth the money or not. Or is there anything I can improve upon? Thank you very much! -Josh R.

Im saving up money for a decent machine capable of video editing (1080p is fine). Do you think this can push it? its 840 eur in my country. ACER Aspire E5-575G-73DL NX.GDZEX.054, processor Intel Core i7-7500U, DVDRW, 12GB DDR4, HD 1000GB + SSD 128GB, graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 2GB, display 15,6" FullHD 1920x1080, Let me know if you have any better alternatives. Bear in mind that I live in Montenegro (SEE Europe), and our tech is usually more expensive than in other places.| Thanks

My Budget is very limited but i want to Upgrade my PC. 1. Budget & Location I'm from Germany and have about 500€ that i can spend for sure. The currency is €. 2. Aim I'm playing games like GTA V and Overwatch, sometimes CS:GO. Planning to buy Battlefield in near future 3. Monitors Using two Monitors all the time. One is Full HD and the other one 1024*768. Would like to connect my TV but I'm to lazy to buy a long enough HDMI-Cable. Maybe upgrading to 2* Full HD. 4. Peripherals No Peripherals needed. 5. Why are you upgrading? I think my CPU is to slow. This should be the main problem but I need a new HDD or SSD because my current HDD is already full since 2 years and I can't figure out which files I should delete anymore. Diagnosis: GTA V running at lowest settings: Still lags and Maploading issues. I think the GPU is fine. Overwatch same: No significant drop in framerate if i put up the graphic settings. CS:GO is hard to tell. Most time stable, sometimes framerate drops to like 5 FPS. Sometimes even when browsing the web with firefox or chrome i have slight performance issues. Watching Youtube-Videos at FHD-60FPS pushs the CPU in Task-Manager to 98-99% but works with one or two bigger lags in 10 minutes. Would like to record my Gameplay as well. Some friends of mine are making great Youtube-Videos and I would like to go along as I did like 5 years ago, when Youtube was really small. Trying to use Premiere or free Software like Hitfilm 4 Express and cutting FHD footage is a headache. I know my GPU is like very low end today but i just bought it for 40€ from a friend of mine who build an awesome 1600€ machine a month ago. I would like to link his build log on Youtube but its German so You will never see it. My diagnosis tells me that my current bottleneck is my CPU. Upgrading it to an 7700K would be really expensive: Processor + Mainboard + DDR4 Ram + Power Supply + new Case (because my old is microATX or miniATX... i dont know the correct name) would be round about 700€. Any Suggestions? Edit: I know my English is pretty basic, but still I hope you can understand my problems.

This is a ryzen build for any one have ~4000$ to spare and an AMD fans or just hype for Ryzen. Then this rig is for u https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HQdPcc comment down below to help this rig better. Have a great week guys. P/S:I'm just a guy try to help evry one so don't trash me through the build like gamer nexus.OK ?

Hi everyone, I'm helping a friend of mine with his laptop. He want's to buy a laptop with a price around 500 euro's. He will use it for school and editing (no games). He want's around 15 inch screen with much storage. Any advise? Thanks!

Okay so my current rig is as listed - Intel Core i7-4790K (stock cooler, never bothered overclocking it) - Asus sabertooth mk 2 motherboard - 16 GB of Ram - Zotac GTX 770 2GB - 500 GB Samsung 850 Evo ssd - 1TB HDD - 500 watt corsair PSU - Windows 10 Pro Now I know this is a pretty decent system, but I'm starting to really feel some of the older components bottlenecking it. I edit videos for a Youtube channel called Jeremy Gaming curios and make a solid amount of money doing so, I'm also a college media student taking video editing and 3D animation courses. Just this past week I had to render a scene with a lot of foliage in it using the Mental Ray renderer in 3DS Max, I gotta say it really cut me deep when the iMac in the college lab matched the rendering speed of my home PC, which got me thinking that I might actually want to upgrade my computer. I also use a renderer called Octane render which is a GPU based 3D renderer, my GTX 770 can render at a decent speed, but the 2GB of vram is a MAJOR limiting factor, like, it makes octane lag in live preview mode so much, that I generally just leave it disabled. I edit all of my videos using Adobe Premiere Pro and after effects, and the games I play are League of Legends and Overwatch, I do own other games like GTA and CSGO but tbh I rarely play them. So basically the potential stats I'm looking at upgrading to are as follow - i7-6800K with corsair water cooling, I intend to overclock the crap out of it - 32GB DDR4 - GTX 1070 EVGA Superclock - Asus x99-A II Motherboard - 750watt Corsair RM750X PSU - 1TB HDD - Free 2TB HDD (Promo), other HDD's will be taken from my old PC This PC would be assembled by iBuypower because their monthly payment plan just works out better for me. Now here's where the real questions come, will the 6-core i7 actually help me render and video edit in Premiere pro and 3DS Max any more than my current 4790K, idk if the DDR4 would also play much into that but please consider that too. Now as for the GPU, I've tried and tried to find updated information regarding the 1080 vs 1070 when it comes to GPU rendering and video editing, I found one video that showed the 1070 barely being beaten by the 1080, would this be accurate? This is my first PC help post, I usually just do all the research and building by myself, but this time I'm actually stumped.

Woohoo! Refund season, time for a new PC! For my upcoming (waiting for Ryzen) build I'll be doing a combination of photo editing, 4K video editing and graphic design in Adobe, as well as some gaming. For internal storage I'll be installing two 500GB m.2 NVME drives in RAID0 as my boot drive, a few 500GB SATA SSDs (also in RAID0) for games, and a 3TB HDD for photo/video mass storage. I'm also prepared to allocate as much as half of my boot volume as either a scratch volume for my programs or cache for my HDD–I don't really anticipate any projects larger than 300GB in total size, but I'd like to have a bit of headroom. If I'm not mistaken a scratch disk should be more consistent for fast reads within the designated programs, but a cache volume would (somewhat less consistently) speed up reads in a wider variety of uses. Is this an accurate summarization? Which configuration makes more sense for a video editing workflow? And does 500GB of total scratch/cache space sound reasonable, or way too much/too little? Some sage storage advice is greatly appreciated

I've come into a role recently that has me editing a local film. Family has decided to buy me a computer as a gift for the job. The film group began shooting in 4K, but changed to 1080p halfway through, so I need a computer than can edit 4K footage. I would also like to do serious gaming on it. I'd also like to be VR ready. I've asked what my budget on this system is, claiming a 4K editing build may run over $1500 USD and they said "Just find out what would be perfect for you and we'll see what we can do." I've presented them with the following build and they gave me the go ahead to buy it. I wanted to keep it at a good value, but I need it to have no problem doing anything. Choosing parts seems the most daunting thing I've ever done. I've learned that a 4k video editing build needs a great processor and a healthy amount of RAM so I went big on those.. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($374.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140 POWER 73.6 CFM CPU Cooler ($62.81 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($189.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($158.28 @ Amazon) Storage: Toshiba 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($84.88 @ OutletPC) Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8GB AMP! Edition Video Card ($590.71 @ Amazon) Case: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Desktop Case ($90.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($88.89 @ OutletPC) Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($17.98 @ Newegg) Total: $1659.52 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-08 20:32 EST-0500 My current owned parts include a USB Keyboard, USB Mouse, and ASUS VG248QE Monitor, and a SanDisk 240GB SSD I'll be using to run the OS; The HDD in the build is for file storage. My biggest fear is buying all these parts and having some small mistake or oversight ruin everything. I also worry about having a build that's not perfectly optimized, having certain parts more powerful and other parts bottle-necking the performance. I already have a copy of Win7 that I've activated on maybe 3 computers so far with no problem. Should I go for Win10 or just continue with my Win7? If you have any suggestions, advice, anything will help. Thank you so much.

For tasks sush as video editing, which CPU will perform better and why? The i7-6700k or the i7-6950x.

Hey guys I'm new to this site so thanks in advance for the advice. I am going to start building my first PC and it needs to be a multi purpose PC. I like to video edit, usually Gopro Footage at 1080p and also I want this pc to be able to game efficiently as well with demanding games like GTA or Battlefield. I want to be able to do both efficiently. I have a budget of about 700-800 USD to spend on the PC alone. Im not sure as to what monitor, keyboard, or mouse to get yet so that would be helpful as well. Right now I'm on a iMac, but its shared so i rather have my own set up. I don't know if what I'm asking for is doable in my price range but any information would help! Thank you again! - jay

1. Like lower thirds are there different objects of a video so one being lower thirds, another being titles/intros if so what are they called? 2. After Effects vs Premiere Pro i still don't understand what does what if someone can simplify it that would be nice?

hi, I have always had problems with my computer crashing while editing video on ANY software. I have built the computer myself and am not sure if the problem is me, the hardware or the computers software. There is an error telling me that the program has stopped working and I will be notified when the problem is fixed nothing else like what error? This is very annoying as it occurs when I have been working for at least one hour and all my work is gone. I have tried reinstalling quicktime. 4970K 16gb 2100MH G skill ram 120GB crucial ssd 1TB segate 7200rpm asrock Z97 mother board GTX 950 by EVGA PLZ Help if you can Thanks in advance and I'm not the best with computers so...

Hello, I am fairly new to upgrading my PC and would like some advice on the parts that I need. I wanting to use my computer for gaming and video editing. After downloading a game (For Honor) and trying to play it, my computer told me that a few parts of my computer was either out of date and I didn't have enough ram. Right now I have a stock Dell Precision T3500. The program I used was the system requirements lab website which said that to play a game (games pretty much from this year) I had to upgrade my video crad, CPU, and ram. Right now I have: Video card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3530 @ 2.80GHz Ram: 6GB I want to upgrade to: Video card: MSI GAMING Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 4GB CrossFire VR Ready FinFET DirectX 12 Graphics Card (RX 480 GAMING X 4G) CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K SkyLake 4.0 GHz LGA 1151 Boxed Processor Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-8GVRB Motherboard: ASUS LGA1151 DDR4 DisplayPort HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 H170 ATX Motherboards H170 PRO GAMING Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think I might need a more up to date mother board because of the newer processor. Right now my mother board is a Dell Inc model 09KPNV. I have read a few forums about compatibility and I think that this set up is compatible. I am building so that the computer will be somewhat future proof and NOT for overclocking. Will this setup work or do I need to consider some other parts of it? Thank you.

So I'm in the process of starting my own business venture where I will be providing and building 3D designs for clients, either jus the cad design or with my 3D printer also providing molds an/or prototypes. For my first client that I just now landed I will also be creating a short film of what their new product is made to do, that will then be shown to the companies board. I have a background in video editing and 3D design already, however, with having the budget up front to buy new equipment and possibly build a new workstation computer I'm thinking I'm in a serious need of a new system, just for work. My primary system I use currently (Blueberry Pie) has an i7-6700k with an Asus GTX 980 Ti Stix OC and it's been doing wonders for me but I feel like the latest Ryzen 7 1800x and the just released GTX 1080 Ti would greatly benefit me. My absolute max budget is $5000 CAD. Below is what I've come up with: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/TtpfGf Ryzen 7 CPU's seem like the perfect choice, they are very competitively priced and as I literally don't care about gaming at all with this particular build I think that I would get spectacular performance for my main use which is Adobe Premiere Pro and Autocad. My reasoning for a GTX 1080 Ti is the 3500+ Cuda cores, which when I built my current main system is why I bought the GTX 980 Ti (high Cuda core count). The $1000 GTX 1080 is to represent the MSRP of the founders edition GTX 1080 Ti's when the release here in Canada. Storage is very important and I wouldn't look to cut back on anything really, the m.2 is for OS and program files, the 2 SSD's will be cinfigured in Raid 0 for super fast storage, and the 6TB hard drives are for mass storage, although I will be using file copying software to have data redundancy on one hard drive to another as I cannot always be hooked up to my server. The cooler is nothing special as by the end of summer I would probably do a custom loop, effectively cooling the CPU and GPU. Other than that I did choose the best $/GB SSD's available here in Canada and one of the best $/GB 7200RPM hard drives available as well. For the RAM I'd ideally go for high-speed RAM, and as I tend to eat up a lot of memory in Autocad I would go for a minimum of 2x16GB sticks for now. But I did add the best $/GB non-ugly RAM available for the time being (64GB). If anyone has some other suggestions I'm open to hear them all, I was thinking of maybe going for a Quadro card as well? Although there may not be much room in the budget. I do not need any peripherals in this budget. Thanks in advanced.