question about video editing

[A99p]

is i7 4790k good for video editing ? 1080p or 4K with a good graphics card

[EPPHO]

Are you buying new or used?

[Jurrunio]

If you already have a Z87 mobo then it's good. Otherwise, you should get a Ryzen 1600 and B350 mobo, unless you live in somewhere Ryzen's rare and expensive

[VVoltor]

Yes, pretty good actually. As long as you also have enough RAM and fast storage, maybe a separate scratch disk.

You probably won't need a very powerful GPU (assuming you're using Premiere) for most use cases having a dedicated GPU is great but getting a very high end one doesn't make too much of a difference.

[A99p]

17 hours ago, frozeNNN said:

Are you buying new or used?

new. i got it in my rig 

[Evanair]

Premiere CAN be GPU intetensive, given you edit and color correct in specific ways. Certain things are very GPU based.

 

The rendering process itself for 3D models and color correction uses the gpu, as well as cross fades and other effects. You will see spikes but not much change with more and more powerful cards having extreme diminishing returns (Linus made a video on this to test openCL and CUDA vs CPU only). His results showed very good improvement by having a card but very little change with faster ones.

 

Since 100% of the encoding process to h.264 is cpu based, that's where more threads come in. Also check out his video on how his 22 core dual cpu system bombed encoding due to lower IPC. 

 

If you're encoding into cineform, something that is a GPU heavy codec, this changes too.

 

Bottom line, If I recall correctly, a good 6 to 8 core processor is fine for most rendering tasks because software doesn't multithread at a linear level.

 

A 1050 or 1060 is more than enough to video edit unless you're doing lots of cineform, 3d modeling, or other application work that relies heavily on the GPU. 

[Umang Goel]

Take a look at this thread before going for Ryzen 5 1600X

 

 

[A99p]

On 7/3/2017 at 8:33 PM, Evanair said:

Okay. thanks m8