Premiere Pro hardware advice

[Tylerjw]

I am planning a new build with Ryzen 9 3900X, B550, 32-64GB 3600 mhz RAM, and either 3070 or 3080 but due to pay cuts because of the pandemic, that might be a while out still. For the time being, I am trying to see if there is ANYTHING I can do to speed up rendering. My current system has (I know, don't laugh) FX8370, 1660 Super, and 16GB 1600 mhz RAM with WD Blue sata SSD. I have been trying to learn Premiere Pro as a hobby just editing family videos shot in 4K 60fps on either my GoPro or my Drone. Since the camera quality of both is not the greatest, anytime I have shoot at night the video ends up very grainy so I have to apply remove noise effect in After Effects. I am currently working on a video about 35 minutes long that I applied the effect on with reduction of 4.0, 4 passes, and temporal filtering on. Went back to Premiere and hit render in to out and the current estimate is 61:18:13 for 125494 frames.

 

Task manager currently shows around 40% CPU utilization at 4.08 ghz, RAM at 56% utilization, GPU at 2% and SSD at 2%. I have hardware acceleration turned on but it never seems to utilize my GPU more than a few percent.

 

Would higher frequency RAM help me at all here or is there anything else I could do?

[Electronics Wizardy]

I think thats a single threaded limited process, or pretty close to it. Higher speed won't help much, so porbably isn't worth it. Id try to overclock it. Or really, just avoid noise reduction for learning, and try to shoot footage so there is less noise. How much of a difference does the noise reduction make in quality?

[Tylerjw]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

I think thats a single threaded limited process, or pretty close to it. Higher speed won't help much, so porbably isn't worth it. Id try to overclock it. Or really, just avoid noise reduction for learning, and try to shoot footage so there is less noise. How much of a difference does the noise reduction make in quality?

It is definitely a noticeable difference. At least in the couple of times I have had to use it. The video I am currently putting together was from a drive through Christmas light display and the other time I have used it was recording our fireworks on 4th of July. My ultimate goal is to eventually build a new rig and get a camera that can capture better video. I currently just have a GoPro for handheld video. It looks pretty good for my purposes during the day but low light is not great.

 

Just looked into overclocking and while the CPU is capable, my MSI MS-7641 is not so much. CPU is 125W TDP and MOBO is 95W capable. I found a few things about how this MOBO is not great for OC.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, Tylerjw said:

It is definitely a noticeable difference. At least in the couple of times I have had to use it. The video I am currently putting together was from a drive through Christmas light display and the other time I have used it was recording our fireworks on 4th of July. My ultimate goal is to eventually build a new rig and get a camera that can capture better video. I currently just have a GoPro for handheld video. It looks pretty good for my purposes during the day but low light is not great.

 

Just looked into overclocking and while the CPU is capable, my MSI MS-7641 is not so much. CPU is 125W TDP and MOBO is 95W capable. I found a few things about how this MOBO is not great for OC.

Why not convert everything to 1080p? Would really make things faster without much visual quality change.

 

 

[Tylerjw]

On 12/10/2020 at 11:46 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why not convert everything to 1080p? Would really make things faster without much visual quality change.

 

 

I have done that just to make the process a little quicker especially since they are just home videos. For the same reason through, there are no deadlines so I usually just start the render or export and just go do something else and come back to it later. Was just trying to find out if anything I could currently do would speed it up.

 

There have been some projects that utilize CPU and or RAM up to 100%. That’s why I was curious if RAM upgrade might help.