Upgrade for 4k Editing

[Lewiscpullan]

Hi I need to upgrade my PC for 4k editing on premiere pro. At the moment I have an i5 4590, 8gb 2133mhz ram and a GTX 960. I get frame drops when editing in 4k so I would like to upgrade to something that won't drop frames so I was wondering what I should upgrade and upgrade to. I would like to keep the cost down so I would prefer to keep the same mother board so LGA1150 socket would be good.

 

Thanks, Lewis

[GtaSeriesFan]

i think maybe a used i7 4790K will be your best bet, don't know if premiere is gpu heavy. but the HT on a i7 should help you get steadier frames.

[Captain Matt]

1. What program are you editing in?
2. If it is Premiere, get 16gb RAM. Premiere is a RAM hog.
3. You can speed things up by transcoding all of your files to 1080 and a faster codec (like mp4) and then do all of the editing with those files and then change all of the links in the project to the original 4k files. It's how the pros do it.
4. All the Adobe multimedia creative products do a lot of pre-rendering and they do it on the gpu.

5. Auto-corrective effects tend to be more intensive than manually adjusted effects.

[Omon_Ra]

You can also drop the playback resolution to help improve playback. In the source and timeline playback window, look at the bottom right of each window. Near the time indicator, to the left of that is a drop-down menu that is typically on 'Full.' You can go down to 1/2, 1/4, or even 1/8 and 1/16 resolution. It only modifies it for unrendered playback, so any rendered files should playback at full resolution (since it doesn't have to on-the-fly encode as much). I use this a lot when I'm doing effects. Long term, as @Captain Matt said, transcoding to a proxy file is ideal; however if you have big projects it takes a decent amount of time to transcode all of your footage and then you need all the storage space for that as well.

 

What type of drive do you have your source files on and what do you have your rendered and cache files? Ideally both of those should be on SSD's, the faster the better.

[Lewiscpullan]

1 hour ago, Omon_Ra said:

You can also drop the playback resolution to help improve playback. In the source and timeline playback window, look at the bottom right of each window. Near the time indicator, to the left of that is a drop-down menu that is typically on 'Full.' You can go down to 1/2, 1/4, or even 1/8 and 1/16 resolution. It only modifies it for unrendered playback, so any rendered files should playback at full resolution (since it doesn't have to on-the-fly encode as much). I use this a lot when I'm doing effects. Long term, as @Captain Matt said, transcoding to a proxy file is ideal; however if you have big projects it takes a decent amount of time to transcode all of your footage and then you need all the storage space for that as well.

 

What type of drive do you have your source files on and what do you have your rendered and cache files? Ideally both of those should be on SSD's, the faster the better.

I have a HDD. Do you have skype as it would be good to have someone to talk to about premiere as I'm only new and I would like to learn more and you seem quite knowledgeable about it. I'm better at learning when someone teaches me rather than videos etc.