Need help with my video editing machine

[FerrariX]

Hi there,

I am a video editor that is seeking help for an upgrade in my current editing machine. I've custom-ed my PC about a year ago for video editing and gaming purposes and it's been going great. I'm currently venturing into 4k video editing and realized my Adobe Premiere lags when loading files or previews. (But editing in Full HD is as smooth as butter tho).

I'm wondering what could be the issue with it. Is my machine was good enough?

Here are my specs:

AsRock H97 Killer Motherboard
Intel i7 4790
Hyper Fury X (2x8GB) DDR3
Zotac GTX 1060 6GB
Samsung 500GB EVO SSD (For my working files)

Any help is appreciated guys

 

[kNiGhTseVen]

Hi there,

I am a video editor that is seeking help for an upgrade in my current editing machine. I've custom-ed my PC about a year ago for video editing and gaming purposes and it's been going great. I'm currently venturing into 4k video editing and realized my Adobe Premiere lags when loading files or previews. (But editing in Full HD is as smooth as butter tho).

I'm wondering what could be the issue with it. Is my machine was good enough?

Here are my specs:

AsRock H97 Killer Motherboard
Intel i7 4790
Hyper Fury X (2x8GB) DDR3
Zotac GTX 1060 6GB
Samsung 500GB EVO SSD (For my working files)

Any help is appreciated guys

Preview with cuda cores or without? If lag using cuda cores, upgrade your gpu otherwise your cpu.

 

[kandinsky]

open task manager > performance and see where the bottleneck is? I would guess disk and ram possibly... is the 500gb ssd the only drive in your system? If it is, that might be the problem... best to have dedicated drives for OS/apps, project files & media, media cache & scratch disk.

I think your 4790 might be able to handle it, but improve the disk setup, zhng the ram, then gpu, would be how i would approach it step by step if i was trying to spend the least.

Equally as important is RAM, but how much is enough?
A minimum of 16 GB of RAM for HD is fine, but with 4K or
6K editing, that minimum rises to 32 GB or more.

Data must be quickly accessible to both the CPU and RAM
so storage speed is crucial. Otherwise, starving the CPU and
RAM of data results in slow performance, no matter how fast
those other components are. This is where high-speed storage
solutions such as SSDs and RAIDs come into play. And,
dedicating a separate cache space using inexpensive SSDs
will help significantly. Next, make sure that media files are
on a storage medium that is separate from the main internal
drive (C: on Windows,* and Macintosh HD on the Mac*).
The media access speed is also tied to what operations are
happening on that drive. For example, the main storage drive
runs the operating system and applications, and that drive
is busy all the time, constantly accessing information from
completely different parts of memory. The obvious choice is
to have all media on a separate drive. It can be internal in a
workstation or external via high-speed connection such as
USB 3 or a Thunderbolt™ connector. Today, many manufacturers
offer SSDs in a RAID; for large-format video editing,
it’s clearly the best option.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/workstation-adobe-4k-guide.pdf

 

[Neptunes43]

+1 for RAM. I think 16GB Ram is a good starting point for 4k. Some googling shows that 8GB is the minimum requirements tho.

Im not so sure about the cpu tho. It might probably work, but performance is likely to take a hit. If budget permits, getting a 6 core 12 threaded (or higher) cpu chip should help (more threads means more pathways; less traffic jam so to speak)

Your 1060 should be able to do 4k playback @ 30fps (I THINK?! Someone correct me if i'm wrong!)

Hope this helps.

 

[Swiftbladez]

Everything except GPU can upgrade.

Maybe a raid 0 on a pair of SSDs will help as well.

 

[wkweewee]

If you are talking abt srubbing the timeline aft u applied ur layers.. no way 16gb is enough. Will stutter till you drop.

You can see the obvious by opening up the task manager while you drag the timeline to preview the edited screen in the original resolution. You will see the memory and cpu bars surging.

 

[kandinsky]

Your 1060 should be able to do 4k playback @ 30fps (I THINK?! Someone correct me if i'm wrong!)

Playback in terms of watching/consuming media, yes. Realtime preview/scrubbing on a timeline in a NLE is a whole different ballgame

 

[Neptunes43]

A fair statement. I said 16gb is a good place to start really because RAM is stupidly expensive right now. I thought DDR3 prices were finally falling but NOOOOOOOO. They be still going up.

If you are talking abt srubbing the timeline aft u applied ur layers.. no way 16gb is enough. Will stutter till you drop.

You can see the obvious by opening up the task manager while you drag the timeline to preview the edited screen in the original resolution. You will see the memory and cpu bars surging.