Help with Ram (video editing)

[rans]

Hi guys, 

I am starting to learn video editing (currently i'm learning after effects)
My pc is:
i7 6700k
16gb ram
and HDD (I dont have the budget for now to buy ssd)

I am planning to make a ram disk as my cache 
my current ram is 
4gb for Adobe application
8gb for Ram disk 
4gb for other application

what u guys recommend about the ram? should i increase the ram for adobe or just stick with my current setup? (I'm on a budget so buying another hardware is not an option for me as of now)

Thanks!

[PigWithAMustache]

I have Premiere Pro CC 2017 and Photoshop CS6 both loaded on my WD blue. They load things fine, but what level of video editing are you doing?

[Omon_Ra]

3 minutes ago, Ranz said:

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Don't bother with the RAM disk, AE will gobble all of it up and 4GB is nowhere near enough for AE. Try to get as much RAM as your mobo can support and you can afford. An SSD as a cache drive will help, but a discrete GPU if you don't have one already would probably be first on the list. CUDA/OpenCL acceleration helps a lot without needing to render clips to play them back smoothly. It does only work with specific effects, and certain ones, or when you start stacking a bunch, will require rendering even on the most powerful rig. But if you're running on an iGPU, that will speed things up quite a bit.

 

And are you just video editing, or doing a lot of effects/animation stuff? If it's just video editing, you're going to want to use Premiere, as that's the Adobe non-linear editor. After Effects is more for, as it says in its name, effects work.

[The Flying Sloth]

Run everything off your HDD unless you have insane amounts of ram.

I have 40GB ram and still prefer running everything off the HDD

Unless this is your profession (in which case you would probably have a higher powered machine) A HDD is fine

[rans]

17 minutes ago, Omon_Ra said:

Don't bother with the RAM disk, AE will gobble all of it up and 4GB is nowhere near enough for AE. Try to get as much RAM as your mobo can support and you can afford. An SSD as a cache drive will help, but a discrete GPU if you don't have one already would probably be first on the list. CUDA/OpenCL acceleration helps a lot without needing to render clips to play them back smoothly. It does only work with specific effects, and certain ones, or when you start stacking a bunch, will require rendering even on the most powerful rig. But if you're running on an iGPU, that will speed things up quite a bit.

 

And are you just video editing, or doing a lot of effects/animation stuff? If it's just video editing, you're going to want to use Premiere, as that's the Adobe non-linear editor. After Effects is more for, as it says in its name, effects work.

Hi there, i'm doing with the effects for short clips so i use after effects. i forgot to add on my specs i only have gtx960.. 
so for now i would stick to my hdd right? and dont bother using ram disk as cache?

[Omon_Ra]

2 minutes ago, Ranz said:

Hi there, i'm doing with the effects for short clips so i use after effects. i forgot to add on my specs i only have gtx960.. 
so for now i would stick to my hdd right? and dont bother using ram disk as cache?

Don't bother with the RAM disk. Save up for an SSD and when you get that have your cache and rendered files on that. But for now, you'll be fine running off of a HDD. I have 32GB of RAM, and when I start stacking a bunch of effects or just bigger projects in general, it'll use nearly all of it. AE will use as much as you can throw at it and the more the better.

[Electronics Wizardy]

18 minutes ago, Ranz said:

Hi there, i'm doing with the effects for short clips so i use after effects. i forgot to add on my specs i only have gtx960.. 
so for now i would stick to my hdd right? and dont bother using ram disk as cache?

Gpu doesn't matter, its all cpu.

 

DOn't make a ram disk. You don't need disk io, you just want to give ae as much ram as you can.

 

Disk speed doesn't really matter for ae, its all in ram.