Video Editing PC

[Schraufabagel]

I'm exploring my options for possibly building a video editing pc. I primarily use premiere pro. If possible, gaming in 1080p at medium settings would be nice.

 

My budget would be around $700 without the graphics card. I'm not sure about the gpu yet since prices are still normalizing after the spike. 

 

My thoughts are the following for components

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600/2600

GPU: GTX 1050/1050ti/1060 3gb

RAM: 16gb 2933 mhz 

SSD: Samsung Evo 970 M.2 NVME 250gb

Hard Drive: WD Blue 1tb

Motherboard: a B350 board

PSU: 400-600w bronze?

Case: room for expansion

 

The main benefits being high ram use, ssd read/write speeds for programs and OS, and a good processor. 

 

I'm open to suggestions for build lists and options that include maybe a ryzen 7 1700/2700 if possible at the price point.

 

[JPStone]

I edit in 1080P on premier and use a Ryzen 7 1700 OCd to 3.9 and cooled by Corsair H55 AIO, 16 GB Patriot Viper Elite DDR4 @2400, a GTX 1070, WD Black 256GB M.2 NVMe for my boot drive and a 860 EVO 500GB for data storage all on a msi B350 Tomahawk MoBo and powered by EVGA 650GQ 80+Gold 650W PSU.

 

That set me back around $1500 and it is overkill for editing and rendering in 1080P rendering to MP4. If your looking into editing in higher resolutions or doing anything crazy you might need more HP put system you outlined sounds solid for purpose in my opinion.

[Phentos]

13 minutes ago, Schraufabagel said:

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Solid system there. I'd go with the 2600 personally, but the 1600 is still very solid. 

 

Keep in mind though that Premiere Pro is poorly multithreaded, so render times won't be quite as high compared to Intel CPUs of the same price bracket as yours. That being said, the margins are pretty small, especially if you use GPU acceleration.

[Schraufabagel]

On 5/7/2018 at 1:00 AM, JPStone said:

I edit in 1080P on premier and use a Ryzen 7 1700 OCd to 3.9 and cooled by Corsair H55 AIO, 16 GB Patriot Viper Elite DDR4 @2400, a GTX 1070, WD Black 256GB M.2 NVMe for my boot drive and a 860 EVO 500GB for data storage all on a msi B350 Tomahawk MoBo and powered by EVGA 650GQ 80+Gold 650W PSU.

 

That set me back around $1500 and it is overkill for editing and rendering in 1080P rendering to MP4. If your looking into editing in higher resolutions or doing anything crazy you might need more HP put system you outlined sounds solid for purpose in my opinion.

How would you system fair for 4k editing? I recently upgraded to a 4k camera and am looking to expand to its full use. Is 16gb of ram enough, or would 32 be better suited? 

[Schraufabagel]

On 5/7/2018 at 1:09 AM, Phentos said:

Solid system there. I'd go with the 2600 personally, but the 1600 is still very solid. 

 

Keep in mind though that Premiere Pro is poorly multithreaded, so render times won't be quite as high compared to Intel CPUs of the same price bracket as yours. That being said, the margins are pretty small, especially if you use GPU acceleration.

For video editing in general, is multithreaded the better option? I might try to expand into other software before premiere eventually. 

[Phentos]

37 minutes ago, Schraufabagel said:

For video editing in general, is multithreaded the better option? I might try to expand into other software before premiere eventually. 

Depends on the software.

 

I personally don't use Premiere Pro right now because I'm a scrub who can't squeeze the Adobe sub price into my RL budget atm, so I use Hitfilm. Hitfilm uses all your threads, but it also has GPU-based acceleration as well on its renderer.

 

Sony Vegas Pro or whatever it's called now gives more benefit to high core count CPUs from what I can recall, but then again I haven't used Vegas Pro since version 11.