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April 5, 2017
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What computer for cutting 4k footage? (no color grading, no effects)

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Hey guys,

I'm about to shoot my first feature film and trying to figure out post production costs. We're gonna shoot in 4k and I'm gonna cut the movie myself but that's where it ends for me, I'm gonna hire a professional editor to do color grading, effects etc. So my question is what is the most budget friendly option of a computer I can get in order to cut 4k footage and then export it for my editor to do the rest. I do not care whether it's desktop or laptop, mac or windows. I'm of course gonna edit in Premiere Pro.

This is the current computer I'm using, but it's really struggling with 4k even on short projects.

I'd appreciate any advice on this.

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Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
April 5, 2017

Give us an idea of your "budget friendly" cost.

What 4K media/camera?

Are you talking Premiere Pro CC or earlier CS6 etc?

Participant
April 5, 2017

Hey Bill,

The ideal would be something up to $1000.

We're gonna shoot with two Lumix G7 cameras.

And yes I'm talking Premiere pro CC.

Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
April 5, 2017

Well I do not know much about Panasonic's 4K 100 Mbits/second MP4 media but I am going to call in Rjl who just recently put together a new ~$1000 system to see what he thinks. 

Can anyone comment on the difficulty or ease on just cutting this media.  My only experience is with Sony 4K 100 Mbit/second XAVC-S and his $1000 system would have no problems with that.