Computer Advice for Editing

[Andy Patterson]

Any Quad Core I7 Skylake or Kaby Lake at 4 GHZ with 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1060 will work just fine. Having said that a GTX 1080 Ti would be even better. You can easily build a decent video editing system for $1,000.00. It might be wise to get an SSD for the OS and HD for the media content. A GTX 1060 will not require an expensive power supply but if you have $1000.00 a GTX 1070 would be money well spent.

[Michael Krueger]

Any modern machine in or above the Intel i5 range, 16+ GB Ram and a Mercury compatible video card should work just fine for that and if you make sure you got a fast, big enough dedicated hard drive for your footage you should also have some headroom.

[Tyler Blank]

Hey Michael, thanks for the advice. I recently searched online and I found a computer called the ‘Dell Inspiron 15’ and I was curious if this computer would work for what I am needing. Here is a quick link to the computer and what it is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/Dell-Inspiron-15-i5559-Signature-Edition-Laptop/93VBGTD54J36?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=CY3NkS*Y9qw&ranSiteID=CY3NkS.Y9qw-Ki6IuxtXSvHXTLRsSj6gJQ&tduid=(14db89ea7cab83ae400d680e6be17869)(256380)(2459594)(CY3NkS.Y9qw-Ki6IuxtXSvHXTLRsSj6gJQ)()

Could you please take a look at it, it would be very helpful.

[Michael Krueger]

Nope. Several reasons but the instant kicker is the 8GB of shared memory. Those don´t meet Premiere minimum requirements which is 8GB of dedicated RAM.

If it has to be a laptop, I’d go to the limit of your budget and look for a gaming notebook since those tend to match the requirements of an editing rig quite closely nowadays.

[Tyler Blank]

Okay, so could you suggest any specific computer? I honestly have never built a computer and a lot of the specs and stuff I am still trying to learn what they all are (Ram, hardrives, intel, shared mem). I am a good editor and can use a computer very well. Additionally, I don’t mind if the computer is a desktop or not.

Thanks for the advice

[Tyler Blank]

Andy, thank you for the input it is very helpful. However, I wasn’t really looking to build a computer. I have never built a computer before and I don’t fully understand all the specs and what everything means (ram, etc).

Thanks

[Chris Wright]

Desktop ryzen 1700 8 core 16.gb ram. GTX 1050ti. Wd black edition all for $800-900. Don’t forget a $99 ips monitor.

[Tyler Blank]

Michael,
Someone posted about this desktop but, would this desktop computer work well: https://www.walmart.com/ip/CybertronPC-Gaming-Desktop-PC-Rhodium-AMD-Ryzen-7-1700-3-0GHz-8-Cores-16GB-DDR4-1TB-HDD-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050Ti-4GB-GDDR5-MS-Windows-10-Home-64-Bit/311350653?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=5841&adid=22222222228073042978&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=184870215269&wl4=pla-289821058738&wl5=9011556&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=113940037&wl11=online&wl12=311350653&wl13=&veh=sem

Thank you,
Tyler

[Andy Patterson]

You can go to Dell or HP and configure an i7 desktop with 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1060 but here is a system from newegg.com that should work just fine. It only has the 3GB GTX 1060 but it should still work just fine. You might want to watch the video. I don’t doubt there are custom computer shops in you area.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883101534

https://youtu.be/CUVsDimVQ2w

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[Chris Wright]

Your video codec requires 60mbps hard drive
And a very fast cpu if you don’t want to transccode
With proxies.

Here is a rundown what premiere needs.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/351/1918