Video Hardware

The time has finally come to upgrade my "Late 2012 iMac" that has somehow managed to make it this far running all of Adobe's software. I have decided to either purchase a souped-up MacBook Air, or a MacBook Pro. The thing is I am on a pretty tight budget, and while I am trying to save where I can, I definitely do not want to shoot myself in the foot a couple of years from now... point is, I want this to last me for a while and would appreciate any advice on how I should proceed. I primarily use Photoshop and Illustrator, but occasionally use After Effects, Audition, and Premiere as well. Here are MacBooks that I am looking at, but will only list the concerns I have in terms of sustainable functionality versus cost effectiveness: MacBook Air:- 1.2 GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.8 GHz- 16 GB 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory MacBook Pro 13":- 2.0 GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHzOR- 2.3 GHz quar

Looking at a getting a laptop at best value and would love some input. Projects will be in 4K and 15mins in length. I definitely want to stay under $2K. Looking at MSI Prestige 15.6" Laptop - 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10710U - GeForce GTX 1650 Max Q - 4K -32GB RAM and trying to determine if delta of more $ vs going with a 16GB RAM System. Looking to move fast. Thanks in advance.

Hello All, I want a laptop under 1 lakh INR (budget laptop) purely for Video Editing purpose. Please recommend a good laptop model with supports Premiere Pro 100% and BEST for video editing under 1 lakh price.My preference: Editing should be smooth, decent battery life and good sound quality.Also, can Gaming laptops be 100% compatible for video editing? Why? Why not? Pls advise ASAP, thank you!

Hi all,I've recently upgraded my laptop from one based on an Intel i5-8250U to one with the AMD 2500U, specifically for the more powerful integrated GPU. However, HP configured the 2500U to have 1GB of "fixed" shared memory, plus 7GB of "flexible" shared memory that is otherwise available to the OS if unused.However, Premiere Pro and AME (checked through GPUsniffer) only seem to detect the fixed 1GB portion of the available GPU RAM. While they allow me to select Mercury Playback Engine with OpenCL, the GPU is not actually being utilized - render times are identical to "Software Only" and are abysmally slow. The same project on other systems, even the Intel i5-8250U, makes plenty use of GPU acceleration for rendering out e.g. Lumetri Color. The Intel GPU only shows up as having "flexible" shared memory in Task Manager, yet detects with 4GB in GPUsniffer.So my question is, is there a way to trick the Adobe apps into seeing more of the available GPU memory or simply forcing them to utiliz

So I am considering two PC Towers. I really can not go above 1K. The first is just under 900... the second about 1.2K   The reason I am asking here in the Premiere Pro area, is that I heard there may be an issue with it in regards to Premiere.   Now, I want a computer that I can run my XP-Pen Artist 24 tablet and BenQPD3220U monitor on. What I will be using it for: Graphic Design Photo Editing Video Editing/Rendering Animation 2D Streaming Gaming Screen Capture, Video Capture   What are your thoughts? I do not have time to build one myself....nor do I know how to build one. So I have to buy it.   Could there be an issue with green lines in video with these?   [Moderator note: moved to appropriate forum.]

Greetings creators,i have purchased a dell laptop as my main engine, my problem is that i want to run adobe softwares and rightnow it has only 4 GB RAM right now i can only add 8 GB RAM and make it 12 GB RAM. I want to know will that run more then one software without any problem.     heres my specs.CORE i5 7 GEN4 GB RAM DDR4GRAPHIC CARD =  2 GB  AMD RADEON    R7 M440 DDR 5HARD-DRIVE= 1 TBDIRECTX 12 

I'm setting up from scratch with Premiere Pro on Windows.  I'll need a keyboard - any suggestions?Thanks!  Tim

Hi, I'm struggling to choose the correct computer for my son (15). I have got adobe creative cloud, he likes to make videos but I suppose he is only at a novive level  He prefers to use rush over premiere as it is simpler, though I would like him to begin to learn  it. He wants to use animate. My current  computer is struggling (it is an old i5 cpu) so I have been  looking around the internet and there seems to be lots of threads about gpu issues  and premiere (with explanation of fixes way above my understanding) someone suggested an integrated gpu i7-1065G7 rather  than non integrated gpu. What do you think? I also understand for animate the ghz will be too low but at some point a fix will come. I wouldn't really like to go over £800. Any advice greatly appreciated, Steven.

I am going to buy a laptop. Which graphics card should I go for gtx1660ti or rtx 2060. I saw many people posting stuffs about rtx 2060 not supported by adobe premiere pro. What would you suggest?

Specifications: Processor - AMD Ryzen 7 3750H  GPU - AMD Radeo RX5500M 4GB RAM - 16 GB  1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD    Please help me out!    [Moderator note: moved to appropriate forum.]

I've been having a close look at the Premiere Pro benchmarks over at https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/ and is very clear that the "Live Playback Performance" of Macbooks is so much better than most other systems. These live playback tests are 4 streams of multicam, 4k 60fps, h264,  ProRes 422 and RED. I can't believe that playback performance on Macbooks outperforms most higher spec computers. Can anyone here answer the question as to why Macbooks playback performance is so much better in genreal? Whilst higher spec'd systems outperform the Macbooks on output render time. The Macbooks consistently outperform even higher spec'd systems for live playback performance.

I'm buying a laptop that I'll use to train on premiere, photoshop and after effects. The recommended RAM for premiere and photoshop are 16gb. The recommended RAM for after effects is 32gb (the minimum is 16gb). I'm trying to save money. Will after effects still run well with only 16gb?here are the other specs for the possible MacBook Pro I'll potentially buy2.6GHz 6‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHzAMD Radeon Pro 5300M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory512GB SSD storagewill this pc work well for the next 6 years?

Hi Folks,Could someone review below specs and suggest any edits? I'm more into funny edits which mostly requires face swaps, 3d texts, merging videos, voice-over, subtitles, graphics used on news channels, animations etc. In coming time, I may start using Adobe Character animator more frequently. Any suggestion is highly appreciated 🙂 CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K 3.8GHz Comet Lake 8 Core 16 Thread LGA1200 - Retail BoxCPU Cooler: ID-COOLING Sweden Series SE-234-ARGB CPU CoolerMotherboard: Gigabyte H470 Aorus Pro AX LGA1200 ATX Desktop MotherboardMemory: Corsair 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR4 Vengeance RGB PRO 2666MHz C16OS Drive: Samsung 860 EVO Series 2.5" 7mm 500GB SSDStorage Drive: Samsung 860 Pro Series 2.5" 512GB SSDGraphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX2060 Super WINDFORCE OC 8GB GDDR6Case: Corsair Carbide 175R RGB Mid Tower Case w/ Tempered Glass Side PanelPower Supply: Silverstone Essential Series 550W 80Plus Gold Semi-Modular Power Su

How do I enable two/multi Nvidia GPUs for encoding/export in the latest versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects? My system has two RTX 2080 Super GPUs.  However, when I do export or render in Premiere or After Effects, its obvious that only one GPU is in use based on the info in the Performance tab of task manager or just by moniotoring GPU temeprature. I looked at this page and it seems vague:https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/gpu-acceleration-and-hardware-encoding.html  On that page it says, "Adobe Premiere Pro uses a single GPU during playback and multiple GPUs for other tasks such as Render In to Out and for export." However its only using one GPU on my system for render or export.

Nvidia GTX960M running latest driver as of now: 21.21.13.7633 released 12/11/2016Eluktronics laptop: Windows 10 HomeIntel i7-6700HW @ 2.6GHz, 2601 Mhz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical16GB RAMIssue started when updated from CC 2015 to CC 2017. To recreate, I open Premiere, work with a project and after 2 minutes or so there is no response to any input. After a few more minutes the bsod happens with the error driver_power_state_failure. I have saved two dmp logs and I'm looking for help.I've tried back-dating the nvidia driver.I've tried setting the Nvidia control panel 3d settings for premiere to high performance Nvidia processor.Thanks for reading!-Natalie

Dear Everyone,Please advise,I would planning to upgrade the Graphics Card, however I don't want spend a lot of money as I would still use the same motherboard (Gigabyte Z68AP-D3) thats only have the PCI Express 2.0.Please advise what is the GPU Card with PCI Express 2.0 that is supporting for Premiere Pro 2020 (14.3), I would preffer to use NVIDIA (the reason is the exisiting I using the NVIDIA). Thank you for the advise.

Using the creative suite on my old laptop and newly built desktop. Wanted to see the upgrade difference first hand so I made identical 15 second videos on each and did an export test. Both machines exported 29mb mp4s, the laptop took 7 seconds while the PC took 23. Just concerned this could scale to be much more of a problem with a larger export. Desktop PC Specs          Laptop Specs  2 possible reasons:Is it because my desktop is AMD and laptop is Intel? Processor Comparison Am I possibly missing codecs on my PC that would help encoding during export? I exported using H.264 Vimeo 1080p preset on both. UPDATE:Downgraded from premiere 14.3 to 14.1 (to match the laptop) and got nearly identical export times. The Desktop was about 20 seconds faster! Still not the difference I was hoping to see but will update this thread wtih a larger project and file test.  Thoughts and suggestions welcome! 

With the new Mac Pro imminent, does anyone know how the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo will be treated as in Premiere on MacOS?  As in, will it be seen as a single GPU or a dual GPU?   For example, I know Premiere only uses one GPU for accelerated playback in a setup with multiple GPUs, but what about in this instance, given the 2 GPU dies are on a single board?  Any insights would be helpful as I decide which one to purchase shortly.       [Moderator note: moved to best forum.]

First, let me thank you all for your help in advance.    I am getting a new super-large design tablet/monitor where I can draw on the screen. Since I am well connected to the games industry... I thought it makes more sense to go ahead and buy a PC Tower.  Now, I am limited on the money I can put towards this and I need to order it this weekend.  I know building it myself or having someone do it for me probably would be more cost-effective (but I would most likely botch that up and I need it to create some videos).   Currently, I have a Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 1 and a BenQ PD3220U monitor.  I will be using the new computer for graphics, animation, video editing, maybe some 3D, streaming and gaming.  The new tablet will be 22 to 32 inches in size.    I am looking at this build... but I am not 100% sure if that is the best.  Plus, I do not know this company.  I am in Germany... so there are a few other option

Hey guys, I'm an artist with little technical wherewithal. I'm just learning now. My footage and edits look good but now wanna learn big boy tools. Will I be able to easily use it on my HP 15Z?? I just listened to the sales person but realize that may have been a mistake. I'm willing to do what I need to to save money but still be able to use PP. I'll only use the laptop for video editing and that's it. Right now I'm just using footage from my S9+ but will eventually upgrade. I just wanna be able to learn all the tools I can. Would love some specific help!

Hi There, I am looking to purchase an iMac Pro for 4k Video Editing in Premiere Pro. I am reading conflicting advice online about whether more than 64GB of RAM is required and whether the Vega 64 will be adequate.Will these Mac specs do the job?iMac Pro3.2GHz 10-Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memoryRadeon Pro Vega 64 with 16GB of HBM2 memory2 TB SSD Storage (Plus external 16TB RAID Drive)  Cheers,Anna

Hi, can someone please advise me where on the Adobe Community/section I can post some spec of a new Windows laptop build I'm about to purchase. I want to make sure it can handle all video editing and motion graphics including some 3D work. It's been nearly 10 years since I upgraded and want to make sure my new system is literally a power house. Many thanks.

which video card helps with rendering (the best solution is needed) which video card does Adobe premiere pro support?

Greetings,I am looking for some Adobe vets to help me out. Next year I plan on teaching Adobe Cloud to students so I've been saving my money to buy a new Apple computer. I was wondering if there are any mac users on this forum that could guide me on the bare minimum Macbook I need to buy to run Premiere. This is the only app that I'm concerned about as far as hardware and performance are concerned. Thank You,Rich 

Hey guys, I used to have Premier and After Effects back in the day, about to purchase both again. I've been out of the film game since 2006. Im going build a new PC just for film editing. Any of you experienced film makers recommend what kind of sound card, video card, Ram, hard drive space, ect. I should purchase for maximum efficiency.  Also, affordable video cameras you might recommend. I want my short films to look professional and I know the camera is where it starts.  Lava mic packs or similar individual small mics that you put in the actor's shirt you might recommend for good audio don't want to use a boom mic. Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to respond! It's much appreciated.