i5 9600K video editing

[name66]

Hello, i am photographer and in future i plan to also add video editing, my question is: would i5 9600K be good enough for 4k video editing in adobe premiere ? Mainly wedding clips (4-6 mins). I could buy i9 but would prefer i5 due to cost of everything (cpu,mobo,cooling). I also play a lot of games. ( i dont want ryzen, bad experience). THX

[Spakes]

I'd say go for 8700K, that would perform better at 4K.

[191x7]

The i5 could do it, but not as good as some CPU-s in the range.

What bad experience with Ryzen?

[Guest]

Hi mate, I am a casual Premiere Pro CC user (which is what I assume you are talking about) also use Photoshop, Illustrator and Steam/Origin/Epic games regularly.

 

I think the answer to your question is; it depends...on how often you plan to edit, how patient you are with your editing workflow, and what format you want to export (at what quality).

 

Intel does have "Quick Sync" to speed up export times, but it isn't appropriate for all formats and levels of quality.

 

Apologies if this isn't super helpful, consider this: if you bill for your editing by the hour, you'll want the slowest gear you can find (haha), but if you bill per event (i.e. wedding), you probably want to spend less time editing and more time at the next event time taking photos and video because you can bill it, and so the CPU price difference will pay for itself fairly quickly I would think.

 

To your point about cost, yes the i9 CPU is more expensive than the i5, but the motherboard and cooling should be about the same.

 

Also, I see (from your other posts) that you (probably) still have a 3700x; I've got a 3900x and find it excellent for Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator (although I was burnt by AMD and didn't touch them for nearly 20 years...). I do use 32GB of memory which is quite handy for Photoshop, and I'm running the memory at 3,200Mhz using XMP. Also, if you find the POST sequence too slow, turn on fast boot in your BIOS, I've found AMD 3900x pretty slow to boot (which I do once a day most of the time!) compared to my most recent 7000 series i7.

 

Maybe there is something faulty with the gear you have? It looks like you've tried everything and I'm sure you have clean install of windows on the AMD platform; did you update the BIOS of your video card (I see you updated your motherboard BIOS) and make sure you've got the AMD chipset drivers installed?

 

Hope it goes well

 

 

[Princess Luna]

Yes the 9600K does manage albeit won't be fastest so do try to extend to the i7 if you can...

 

Just remember to enable QuickSync acceleration on Premiere.