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of-the-shelf computer recommendation for Premier
My gf who’s a pro editor is thinking of switching from FCP to Premiere. She tried it and likes it. She’s also thinking of ending her relationship with Apple so it’s time to buy a new PC. What’s a good of-the-shelf PC that can work well with Premiere – commercials, music videos – sometimes using native camera files (h264)?
Patryk
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See this round up in another thread.
It seriously depends on the budget and what type of editing your girlfriend does.
My favorite (on paper, I haven’t actually tested it) is Dell T7600: starts at about $4-5K for a decent configuration that’s suitable for Premiere Pro. An HP Z820 costs about the same. For $8K-12K, a well configured T7600 or HP Z820 may get into the top 50 PPBM5 results.
If you need someone to customize and configure it for you, yours truly will be happy to.
That said, you can get a very decent non-major-brand system for under $3K – as long as it’s properly configured for Premiere Pro purposes. ADK and Puget Systems are two known integrators specializing in just such systems.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Her current machine is:
Mac Book Pro
2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 Mhz
Mac OS X 10.5.8
with esata for external storage.From what i understand it’s a pretty slow machine (even though see seems to play h264 files without any hick-ups). Thus my question is why would she need a $3k machine? I’m pretty sure her computer is simply cluttered with stuff thus she notices performance drop (and me not being a Mac guy don’t want to really wonder into the abyss of re-installing that system).
Patryk
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[Patryk Rebisz] ” Thus my question is why would she need a $3k machine?”
She doesn’t. You can get a computer for under $2K and even under $1K that will work fine. The configurations I mentioned are for “pro” editors that also:
– are configured for balanced performance vs value in terms of Premiere Pro system recommendations and requirements
– optimized for GPU acceleration in Pr
– have room to add storage, I/O cards, memory, etc.
– are RAID-readyAlex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
It would truly be better to build your own, or have someone else do it for you. It would be much cheaper and could do wonders. Not only that, you could buy parts that are older, but still extremely good.
Her system doesn’t seem to high-end, but if you wanted something off the line that would work try matching at least these specs:
AMD 6-core CPU (at least 3.0GHz)
8GB RAM (DDR3 preferred)
Dual-Channel Memory Slots on the Motherboard (virtually makes RAM double)
SATA III HDD (Although SSD would be much better, but much more expensive)
Nvidia Graphics Card (You can check the site for high-to-mid models, but something with 1GB RAM at the very minimum) – without a Nvidia Graphics card you can’t use MPE on PP, which you can also Google search for a simple hack to allow this with non-qualified cards
You could then later upgrade everything to your liking, or have someone do it for you, when extra funds became available. And because you would use AMD, that should really help in terms of price.
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