Most efficient setup for Warp Stabilizer

[Bart - V1 Aviation]

Hi everyone,

Since it's my first time posting, a brief intro about myself.

I'm Bart, aviation YouTuber/streamer from The Netherlands and over 10+ year user of the Adobe platform.

The reason for me to start this topic is relatively simple: i'm in a niche market when it comes to video editing and there's not that much information to find on the web.

All my clips (between 30 and 90 seconds each) are stabilized due to panning moving subjects.

My current PC setup works decent, but I want to speed up the proces of 'warping', since this takes up the most time in my edits.

My question is as follows:

Considering I have roughly 30-40 clips per video that I warp, what would be the most efficient PC (or laptop) setup to go through warp stabilizer?

Would this be (e.g.) a Windows system with an I9 or Ryzen9 and dedicated GPU, or would I be much better off with switching platform and get into the Apple ecosystem with their m2/m3 silicon?

Note: I do game as well, so upgrading my Ryzen 5 and 2070 super seems like the most logical option, but i'm focussing more and more on editing videos.

Cheers,

Bart

[R Neil Haugen]

What format/codec are your clips, and produced by ... what?

If they're long-GOP as is likely, then ... you probably do not want an AMD CPU. You would need an Intel CPU that is noted for good working "QuickSync",  or a newer M series Mac, as both of those do have very good long-GOP performance.

AMD CPUs, like the 3960x of my desktop, don't have such good support in practical terms for long-GOP media. I don't use that much of it, and have no problem t-coding or proxying that which I do use. But that would probably not be your preference.

Second, Warp is the most resource-hog effect around, more so than even video denoising. So you will need specialized hardware to have the right mix of CPU, RAM, GPU, and cache space to get the job done quickly.

@RjL190365 is the resident expert on this sort of thing.

[Bart - V1 Aviation]

I'm shooting with a Nikon Z8 in H.265 and a Sony RX-10 Mk IV in H.264.

I forgot to mention my PC's specs, so here's it listed below (built in 2020):

- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X on an AM4 Asrock X570m Pro4 MoBo

- RTX 2070S TriFrozr (MSI)

- Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600MHz DDR4 64 GB (2x32) RAM (2023 upgrade)

I do indeed find that Apple's M series do offer good QuickSync and therefore analyze the frames significantly faster than my current setup.

[R Neil Haugen]

I've got a Ryzen 3960x and 2080Ti. I don't do terrible  with a clip or two of long-GOP, but it is something I'm willing to proxy or t-code so that's ok. Otherwise, I get good performance across Premiere and Resolve and Ae.

You're working with mostly long-GOP. At which point, sadly, having an Intel CPU is often a better choice. The things we learn after we purchase something, right?

[Bart - V1 Aviation]

Sorry for my very late response. I haven't seen your message come through.

Currently still in doubt what to do. 

I've been trying out some 8K/25 clips and my PC just doesn't want to chew through it.

It seems impossible to find information on what Warp actually utilizes (single core/multi core etc), so I still haven't decided whether I should upgrade my windows PC or get myself a Mac Mini/Studio.

If there's anybody on this forum with this knowledge, PLEASE reach out to me to help me decide before I put down a couple K on something I end up regretting buying.

[R Neil Haugen]

There's @RjL190365 who's the resident expert on such things.

And of course, there's also the Premiere Pro Video Hardware forum, which for some odd reason isn't listed in the "relative forums" on the right side. You can find it throught the main Adobe forums listing page.