Correct specs for running 4k in multi cam editing?

[christophec17880291]

1. Hi there,

I was wondering if you guys could tell me what you think about those specs.

Im not really a geek when it comes to system performance, but i'm currently working with 4k footage up to 60 fps in multi cam projects and somebody suggested me this machine, what are your input about it?

Dell Precision 3000 3430

Xeon E-2124 - 16 Go - 256 Go SSD - Windows 10 Pro for WorkstationsNVIDIA
Quadro P1000 4 Go Graphics - Graveur DVD - Serial ATA/600 Control - 0, 1, 5, 10
RAID Levels - Ready for Intel Optane memory - Gigabit Ethernet

Some advice would be really appreciated!

[RjL190365]

That system is too weak overall for 4k video editing, and is merely sufficient for 1080p. IIRC that Xeon E-2124 is only a Coffee Lake i3 CPU with only 4 cores and no hyperthreading (only 4 threads total). In general, you will need an 8-core, hyperthreaded (16-thread) CPU for most 4k work.

And 16 GB of RAM doesn't quite cut it for 4k. You need at least 32 GB of RAM for 4k.

On top of those, that Quadro P1000 is IIRC a slightly crippled GeForce GTX 1050 with more (4 GB instead of just 2 GB) but slower (5 GT/s instead of 7 GT/s) VRAM.

Plus, of course, you definitely need more disks than that single OS SSD.

In other words, that system will need more than three hardware upgrades just to edit 4k sufficiently smoothly.

[christophec17880291]

Exactly the advice i was lookin for!

Thx a lot for the input!!!

[R Neil Haugen]

Both Safeharbor Computing and Puget Systems build to-spec video post processing machines ... and test the heck out of the hardware with all the usual suspects, Premiere, AfterEffects, Audition, Resolve, Vegas, whatever.

They both have test articles on their sites about their findings ranking everything that goes into the build ... CPUs, motherboards, RAM, GPUs, drives, you name it. Excellent places to see everything compared with actual video post-processing apps, not games!

Also ... there's the Hardware forum ...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Video-Hardware/bd-p/video-hardware

Neil