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August 19, 2022
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4K on Intel Core-i7 5th Gen possible?

  • August 19, 2022
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Will I be able to edit 4K videos on my i7 5th Generation laptop???

 

My laptop spec: i7 5th gen, 8gb ram, 256ssd and no dedicated graphics card.

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Peru Bob
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August 19, 2022

Moved to the Video Hardware forum.

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August 19, 2022

Will I be able to Edit 4K (iPhone footage) with this specs?

 

Hp pavilion laptop : Intel core-i5 8th gen, 8gb ddr4 ram, 256 nvme ssd, and 2gb nvidia MX130 gracias card.

 

I do vlogs with light editing and colour grading sometimes... Nothing much, please guide me with your thoughts

 

Thanks in advance 

 

Warren Heaton
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August 19, 2022

Are you recoding ProRes (on option on the newest iPhone), High Efficiency (H265), or Most Compatible (H264)?  Since you're color grading, hopefully it's ProRes.

 

Your machine should handle a ProRes based Premere Pro Proxy Workflow well provided to add additional storage.

 

If you're not already shooting ProRes on the iPhone, I'd transcode the H265 or H264 clips to ProRes 422 LT for your Full Resolution footage and use 1280-by-720 ProRes Proxy for the attached Proxy files.

 

Transcoding would of course be faster on a fastet machine and your Full Resoution exports will take awhile, but editing in Proxy mode should work well and as intended.

 

If you're shooting H265 or H264 you could opt to use either of those as the Full Resolution footage, you can still use 1280-by-720 ProRes 422 Proxy for the attached Proxy files.

 

Whichever approach you take, you'll probably need more storage.  An external USB3 should handle 1280-by-720 ProRes Proxy clips just fine, be it a regular hard drive or SSD/Flash storage.  If upgrading the 256GB NVME SSD to a higher capacity is an option, that's worth doing.

 

Ingest and Proxy Workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro

 

 

 

-Warren

 

 

 

MyerPj
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August 19, 2022

That's pretty much a no. 8gb is the minimum for PP, so to be running at the minimun, well, you can figure that one. I just upgrade from a 6850 with 64gb, desktop not a laptop. I could edit 4k, basically in the manner Phillip says. I would use proxies, I picked Cineform. It's simple enough to try it, it just might not be fun enough...:-)

 

Ann Bens
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August 19, 2022
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August 19, 2022

Well, the short answer is: no. It's not going to be a good experience.

 

You do have some things you can do to increase your chances of being able to do it. You have to have an extremely efficient workflow, and mostly what I mean by that is that you should be using low-res, edit-optimized proxies. You do your edit with the low-res proxies (like the ProRes 422 Proxy Low Resolution preset) and hopefully your computer is able to export the originals. It would just take longer.  

I would not plan on being able to do crazy effects or anything like that. But the proxies would potentially let you get an edit out, assuming you don't have any other issues with the installation for being under spec.