CPU Minimum for 1080p edit from 4K footage.

[Dennis Velazquez]

I need to know what is the absolute minimum, as far as cpu power for a PC is concerned, to edit 15 hours worth of 4K footage at 1080P.

If there's a specific unit out there, or a specific hard drive, links to them would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dennis Velazquez]

Anybody?

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

It depends on the workflow you pick.

Do you want to grade in real time at 2k uncompressed? Use a very small QT proxie in FC? Transcode everything to ProRes or something else at 1080 4:2:2?

What do you want your output to be?

 

[Igor Ridanovic]

I need to know what is the absolute minimum, as far as cpu power for a PC is concerned, to edit 15 hours worth of 4K footage at 1080P.

If there's a specific unit out there, or a specific hard drive, links to them would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Building a system for this yourself is a tall order. It's not impossible but even $100K+ systems can't work in 4k in real time.

It's not just the CPU but the storage, storage speed, etc.

 

[Nir Shelter]

A little hard to answer your question as it lacks details.

What is you work flow offline/online? What formats are you choosing for each? Software version (assuming your editing in Premier pro)? What are you finishing in? Using a raid for storage? What raid? What HDDs? Composits involved? Are you compressing the footage? Where and using what are you going to compress the footage? etc...

But in short the speed of the CPUs has little to do with the amount of footage you are planning to edit. More so the speed of the CPUs has less to do with your offline format as you can choose a format that is less processor heavy.

There is no bare minimum of CPU speed requirement theoretically you could edit on a dual Xeon 3.06GHZ. Would be slower and more painful than an 8 core that's for sure.

I strongly suggest you read through the many threads up on Reduser.
Good luck.

 

[Josh Negrin]

hey dennis, you could edit on a mac mini ($599) easily. Use final cut pro, the quicktime 2k proxies from the RED, and export apple pro res 1920x1080 24p. Very simple, and is the cheapest way to go.

 

[Ron Shaw]

mac mini?

mac mini?

Really?

 

[Josh Negrin]

I can edit on my macbook (unibody) and it's got the same chipset as the mac mini.

 

[Ron Shaw]

Which macbook do you have?
Do you also convert your R3D to prores on the macbook or on another
Machine?


Ron