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Anonymous

Question

Premiere Pro on older CPU

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
May 2, 2018
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I'm a student and video editing is my hobby.

I'm looking for pc that can handle 1080p video editing. Rendering times are not verry important to me since this is just a hobby but i do want workable editing experience.

I was looking for CPU and wanted to ask how usable Premiere will be on the following chips

Intel Core I5 2500

AMD Phenom II x4 B97

both with 8GB ram and GT710 GPU.

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kmtv

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Fellow student here who actually understands what you're talking about.

Let me start by saying, its terrible to misguide to someone like this and tell them they need a HEX CORE processor and 24gb of ram with multiple drives to do HOBBYIST video. Geez. We edited a 50 minute movie on a 2011 24" imac with a mechanical HDD and made it work. It's HOBBYIST video. No deadlines or money to loose if it crashes once in a while. Premiere auto saves everything anyway. This was 2018, what, did you expect them to go out and buy an 8700k system for $3k?

I can use premeire pro with multiple nested sequences, after effects compositions, and color correction on this machine (which happens to be my grandmothers old computer):

HP Pavillion HPE

Pegasus 2ad5 mobo

i5 3570k (not reliably overclockable w/ the pegasus board, so its literally just a 3570)

24gb DDR3 (was usable on 12gb. DDR3 non-ecc hynix ram is extremely cheap on eBay)

Samsung 850 evo 500gb (already had one, but could have a usable build with a cheaper WD or adata SSD)

GT 730 2GB (less than $30 on ebay)

HERES HOW YOU GET A VERY CHEAP COMPUTER FOR HOBBYIST VIDEO:

- check publicsurplus.com to see if any i7 or i5 systems are being cleared out of a municipal building near you that you can buy for cheap (stick to 3rd gen and above if possible). Think school computer lab computers. Or, some colleges will give you one of their surplus computers for free/you'll have first dibs before they get liquidated. You'll probably pay $30/machine if you don't have too much competition in bidding.

- these computers will usually have 1-2 sticks of ram in them, say 2x 4GB. Go on ebay and buy 2 sticks of the same brand/model in the 8gb varient. Now you have 24gb of ram.

- get a low profile GT 730 for $20-30 on eBay

- WD Blue 2.5" 500gb SSD used on ebay for like $40.

Likely, you've just spent about $110 and you can edit video now in premiere.

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RjL190365

Legend

It's not the type or skill of video that's the problem, in this case. It's the fact that pro-level NLEs themselves really need high(er)-end hardware just to handle even a simple task adequately smoothly. A system like what you described above will take several hours just to even render or export even a low-resolution video that's just a few minutes long - and that's just doing simple video jobs (no effects). And Premiere Pro 2020 is now much more picky than ever about hardware age and hardware performance.

And the GT 730 that you suggested does not meet minimum performance requiremts for Premiere Pro 2020. Most of them are based on the now-obsolete Fermi generation of GPUs, which is now no longer supported any more by Nvidia itself since 2018. And Premiere Pro 2020 now prefers 4 GB or more VRAM on the GPU.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but cheapo consumer editing software does not interact with hardware in the same way as professional-level NLEs do. The pro NLEs are much more hardware-intensive than the cheapo consumer programs that do not perform even some of the basic tasks that I use regularly.

kmtv

Participant

I'm editing 3 videos a week for my college with color, effects and multiple nested sequences/after effects compositions on premiere pro 2020 with a gt 730. It takes a fair time to render (a whole lot better than the 2011 macbook pro I learned on, though) and I edit at 1/4 quality preview half the time, but they get done. This person is a hobbyist!! It's not their career! People can LEARN while staying within their means. That means: no strict deadlines, no stakes. What, do you think this college student just didn't want to spend $2k on their editing station because they were dumb and didn't know any better? Its because, chances are, they're functionally poor. It's worthwhile to give someone a real solution to their problem instead of shutting them out like this thread did. It's incorrect at best, elitist at worst.

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Anonymous

Also i forgot to mention that I'm not using the newest version of premiere pro. I'm using Premiere pro 2015 or 2014

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Anonymous

I already have a 120GB SSD as my main drive and a 500GB HDD. I want to buy a 1TB hard drive for additional storage

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Anonymous

WD or Segate i'm not quite sure.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Premiere+Pro+on+older+CPU wrote
WD or Segate i'm not quite sure.

I meant whether HDD or SSD and interface type.

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Anonymous

Yes but im planning to buy a 1TB hard drive for additional storage.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Premiere+Pro+on+older+CPU wrote
Yes but im planning to buy a 1TB hard drive for additional storage.

What type of drive?

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Anonymous

120 GB ssd

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Is that the only drive?

If so, you will have problems.

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Anonymous

Like for example the Ryzen 5 1600

And do you really think that 24 GB ram is required.

Isnt 16GB gonna be enough because ram is super expensive right now.

And can you recommend me a good GPU on a budget.

And keep in mind that i work with 1080p and lower.

Huge thanks for your help.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Premiere+Pro+on+older+CPU wrote
And do you really think that 24 GB ram is required.
Isnt 16GB gonna be enough because ram is super expensive right now.

I have a 3.2GHz hex core with hyperthreading and 24 GB RAM and sometimes editing 1080p is a challenge, depending upon the size of the project and effects use.

What is your hard drive setup (how many, what kind, what is on each, and how full)?

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Anonymous

I've read online that video editing is CPU intensive work. If that is correct why would the GPU be a problem. And how much cores Do you think is needed for this kind of work.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Premiere+Pro+on+older+CPU wrote
And how much cores Do you think is needed for this kind of work.

Hex core with hyperthreading and 24 GB RAM.

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RjL190365

Legend

Extremely poorly on both of those machines, especially in their current configuration. Even though their CPUs are weaklings by current standards, their two biggest failings are their installed GPUs and their low installed amount of RAM. The GT 710 is so severely underpowered that they actually drag down the performance of the already weakling CPUs almost to the point of being unusable.

kglad

Community Expert

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