i3 vs i5 vs i7? Or AMD? for editing AVCHD footages

[Tero Ahlfors]

It really doesn’t matter. AVCHD is a horrible resource hog of a codec and I’d transcode the footage to something else before doing anything with it.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Perry,

Go with the Intel Core i7 and an Nvidia display card to take advantage of the GPU-acceleration of Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, and you will edit AVCHD with ease, plus get very fast exports to various formats including H.264 and DVD.

Adobe-approved GPUs are listed here – https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

If the budget is tight, you can use other cards not on the list and make them work, see this link:https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Jeff Pulera

[Perry Cheng]

Yes, I don’t mind getting the new Hardware, my headache is reinstalling all my software! Do you know of any easy way to migrate the software programs to a new computer? (I assume I have to get a new CPU, Motherboard at least, if not GPU.) That takes hours. I may actually have to go with converting AVCHD route for now if there is no easy way. What a pain!

Thanks guys,
Perry

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Perry,

Reinstalling software is never is a bad thing, and we do it every year. It’s especially important on a PC running editing software where things need to be stable.

While you might be able to take the old drive to the new system, the odds of things working out aren’t very good. You can’t transfer software without reinstalling.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Also another quick tip, it may be worth looking into converting some of your old DVDs into ISO images and keeping them on a drive. A lot less frustrating than going through an endless array of DVDs everytime.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Perry Cheng]

Tx Vincent for the tips. Yes, I am lazy….