Upgrading rig for video editing

[Final_Flare]

Hi all,

Need some advice for my rig to do video editing.
Asked around my friends already but I think I need more advice.

Will be dealing with multi-camera footages and Premiere Pro, will range anywhere from 3-7 angles, at best, 3 angles will have 100Mbits source. My multi-camera playback is choppy and I start to dropframes not even a minute into the playback.

My friends have isolated to graphics card as my GTX 560 is way dated as compared to my i5 4670.

Was recommended to get the Asus GTX970 Strix. My budget is also around the 500-600 range. Within that budget range I saw the Asus R9-390 Strix too.
I'm planning to stick to Asus cards as well.

Any inputs will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Goodshot]

Sonehow I feel Amd card display sharper , more vivid. But gaming wise nvdia still king

 

[peterchan75]

For video editing, get the fastest CPU that you can afford. Since it's cpu intensive.

 

[kandinsky]

Will be dealing with multi-camera footages and Premiere Pro, will range anywhere from 3-7 angles, at best, 3 angles will have 100Mbits source. My multi-camera playback is choppy and I start to dropframes not even a minute into the playback.

My friends have isolated to graphics card as my GTX 560 is way dated as compared to my i5 4670.

Which version of PPro are you using? What's your drive setup like? If you only have one drive and everything is reading/writing at the same time, it's no wonder you're getting dropped frames. Ideally you should have a dedicated fast drive for your media.

Saying all this cos GPU is just one spoke of the wheel. Your performance also depends on your CPU, memory and disk speeds. E.g., if you upgraded to a gtx970, it might improve some stuff, but you might still get dropped frames if the actual bottleneck was your CPU/disk speeds.

If I were in your shoes, and I only had $600 (which is quite tight) to spend to improve overall Ppro performance, I would probably try to split it between a GPU, bump the ram up to 32, and a good 512gb/1tb ssd with fast read speeds for your media files (assuming your current ssd is only for OS and apps). Assuming you're running the newer versions of Ppro.

Just my 2cts, I could be wrong. Would be good to have more input from those with more experience at optimizing builds for Ppro.

If you have a good friend with a gtx970 they can loan you to run some tests, that would be best before you commit to this upgrade. Then you know if you need to budget for other stuff.

Take a look at this white paper by adobe:

A core performance feature in Adobe Premiere Pro is the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE), which optimizes video processing calculations during previewing, exporting, scrubbing, and other functions in addition to playback. MPE employs multithreading to take advantage of multiple CPU cores (both real and virtual) to accelerate these functions. The speed of encoding and decoding the wide range of media types Adobe Premiere Pro can handle is also dependent on your CPU.

Additionally, if your computer has an OpenCL-compatible AMD or CUDAenabled NVIDIA graphics card or chip installed, it can also take advantage of a qualified GPU to greatly accelerate a number of functions by a factor of up to eight times that of high-end multicore CPUs. As noted on the previous page, Adobe Premiere Pro can also take advantage of multiple GPUs installed inside the same computer—including the new 2013 model Apple Mac Pro—for even greater performance. Functions that are accelerated include a growing list of effects and transitions (see the sidebar on the next page), scaling including different pixel aspect ratios, deinterlacing, frame rate differences, blending modes, color space conversions, and alpha channel interpretation. Additionally, LUT (color lookup table) processing is accelerated by OpenGL, OpenCL, and/or CUDA.

This—together with the speed of your storage devices (discussed below)—has a direct impact on the number and size of streams of video that may be played back in real time. It also affects rendering time of your final output.

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Adobe Premiere Pro is highly dependent on the speed of your storage media. You will enjoy better performance and fewer dropped frames if you use multiple drives to spread the work load. At a minimum, you should consider a two-drive system, with one drive containing your operating system, software, and media cache, while the other is used for your source files, previews, and final exported renders. Preferred is a four-drive system, with one dedicated to the operating system and software, the second for source media and project files, the third for the media cache, and the fourth for previews and exports.

To play back digital cinema files or multiple streams of HD (High Definition) video files without dropped frames or other interruptions, you should consider a RAID. A RAID can be used in lieu of additional drives for everything except your operating system and software.

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Ad...dfs/adobe-hardware-performance-whitepaper.pdf

 

[lalalalalala]

Need a workhorse ssd if ure serious. Might want to bump ur processor to i7 also. Gfx should be fine unless ure using gfx to render

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[ondooy]

i would upgrade your cpu first...