CPU and Video Editing

[pstarlord]

I've been recently getting into video editing, and may get pretty serious about content creation in the near future.  (I'm a musician/guitar teacher so I'm working on a series of online lessons for the teaching side and bands are always making videos and content) 

 

I have two primary computers, one is my at home gaming PC, the other is at my recording studio and is specialized for recording audio.  Since the video editing I'll be doing at my home, I'm trying to make a few decisions and thought I'd ask the smart folks here their opinion. 

 

My Gaming PC is pretty new, the main parts I got last fall.  Ryzen 3700x CPU, Sapphire Nitro 5700xt for the GPU, 16 Gigs of 3600 speed RAM, Aorus X570 Master Mobo, few TB of M.2 storage.  I know the general rule of thumb is that you don't need as many cores for gaming as you would for content creation, and I know the 3700x is no slouch of a CPU. 

 

So, for all the video editors and people with more experience in the content creation world, I have two questions.

 

1-Is there a video editing software that would tend to be more AMD friendly, and work fairly decently will my current setup?

 

2-The 3900x is on sale right now at newegg, and I'm contemplating picking one up.  I know the added cores would certainly increase the performance of the video editing, but after watching some side by side benchmarks of the 3900x and 3700x it looks like the 3700x actually out performed the 3900x in quite a few games.  Not by a dramatic margin, but I expected to be a bit closer than it was on a few titles.  So lets say for argument sake that the 3700x has a slight advantage in gaming, would the 3900x's advantage in the content creation be significant enough to justify swapping?  

 

I'd probably be selling my 3700x and I have a few other parts I'll be selling soon as well and that would pretty easily cover the cost of the 3900x.  (3700x, 1700x and X370 MSI Gaming Pro Carbon should cover it) 

 

A part of me is just obsessed with always upgrading and tinkering with my computer so the idea of dialing in a new CPU is very fun to me, but on the other hand, if its not worth it, then I could put the money to use in other parts of my life.

[jaslion]

1. Use adobe premiere, davinci resolve or lightworks. Any of em are good and will work well with your system.

 

2. Just use what you have now and if you notice it's not good enough upgrade later. The 3900x should be a tiny bit better in games so kinda odd the 3700x beat it but normally the 3900x is better by just a tiny bit.

 

 

[pstarlord]

39 minutes ago, jaslion said:

1. Use adobe premiere, davinci resolve or lightworks. Any of em are good and will work well with your system.

 

2. Just use what you have now and if you notice it's not good enough upgrade later. The 3900x should be a tiny bit better in games so kinda odd the 3700x beat it but normally the 3900x is better by just a tiny bit.

 

 

 

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look into those options!

[thebagsman]

1 hour ago, pstarlord said:

 

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look into those options!

Results may vary but I've seen statistics showing diminishing returns with adobe premiere after 10 cores. Keep in mind davinci resolve will mostly use your GPU over CPU. Increasing RAM up to 32GB will help with editing as well.

[pstarlord]

1 hour ago, thebagsman said:

Results may vary but I've seen statistics showing diminishing returns with adobe premiere after 10 cores. Keep in mind davinci resolve will mostly use your GPU over CPU. Increasing RAM up to 32GB will help with editing as well.

Oh that's good to know, thank you very much.  I was thinking about the RAM situation as well, I've seen the same 2x8 kit have on sale from time to time, might pick it up next time its a good deal. 

[zbassman]

I recently encoded a video from premier and was a bit disappointed to see only 35-40% of my amd 3960x being utilized for the task. I'm wondering how reviewers get those comparison times on the encoding speed charts when comparing CPUs.