AE Win10 Build

[Michael Szalapski]

No need for Quadro graphics. No need for a Xeon processor. Neither one helps you at all. You’re just paying money for features that are irrelevant for you.

For any sort of video editing, motion design, or even 3d animation, you just need a GeForce card like a 3080 or 2080 or even a 2070. I mean, if you’re doing 3d animation with a GPU renderer like Redshift or Cycles 4D, then you might want multiple 3090s, but that’s another discussion. In any case, you don’t need a Quadro.

Xeon chips are only useful if you want to have two of them. Having two of them won’t benefit you in Premiere Pro.

Now, AE’s changing dramatically. They have the debut of Multi-Frame Rendering in public beta and are expected to deliver it in the “release” version of AE in the next couple of months. This is very different from the old Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously feature. It works a lot better and is much more stable and is doing entirely different things under the hood!

This huge change in AE is going to change processor recommendations, but there’s not enough testing out there (and the feature isn’t even complete yet) to have anything concrete to suggest. Before MFR came into beta, the suggestion for AE was to get as high of a clock speed as you can afford and the amount of cores didn’t matter at all. Now, the amount of cores do matter, but I’d still err on the side of higher clock speed unless you can get a ton more cores without a big drop in clock speed.

You want at least 64 GB of RAM. More wouldn’t hurt.

You want more than one drive. Ideally, you’d have some form of SSD or M.2 for your OS, another one for your AE caches and a third drive for footage. Even better if you could have a fourth drive to render to. The third and fourth drives don’t have to be SSDs, but it’d be better if the third was.

[Umberto Giannini]

Thanks for the reply Michael,

It for a professional environment not for a home PC so i want to over spec it a little.

Umberto