Just my 2 cents from an available-technology - what is your editing platform and how serious are you about two new potential hobbies?Ī capable 4k editing system is going to run you IMHO around 1400+ USD if you work to find online deals. Once your process steps are complete, the final image processing of the 4K version can take place at non-realtime pace and produce good final results.
#WHAT DO I NEED FOR 1080 VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE#
I agree with many of the above posts, that your best option is software that allows you to edit 4K with 1080 proxy. That leaves the software as you best chance for success - and I'm not up on all the current offerings. Better solutions are available but are far more costly than you're probably interested in.ĤK is 4 x the pixel density of 1080, so it requires 4 x processing power. While the quad-core i7 is the default norm for general computing, it's not the fastest nor the most adapt for parallel processing. Most of the processing is going to be CPU intensive.
High-end graphic cards for gaming have a ton of GPU processing available for functions like shading and rotation, but offers little help to the image process we're talking about (although some can do simple filtering and color correction - but that's at the rendering level and will not be saved).
Just make sure it has the memory on board to do it properly. What I can offer from the mile-high view is this: I don't have much experience with 4K video processing, but in a former life I did a lot of computer simulation and image processing. When I was using PCs for video I enjoyed using Vegas, it seemed to handle resources better for me at least. Frankly it is all a bunch of crap that sells us more hardware/software looking for the golden goose, but I digress. That again strengthens my argument that the software can make a huge difference in the way it utilizes the hardware at hand. I current am using a 2015 MBP, and iMovie, and FCP work flawlessly for 4k footage, and oh by the way my MBP does not have a dedicated graphics card. One thing I would do in your case is ensure that your software is using the resources you have in your machine, occasionally the software will be limited by default to only use a small amount of the power you have at hand.
All that being said what I have come to now "believe" is like BuzzCut alluded to the software is huge and the way it is optimized is even bigger. I would get the biggest machine my meager pocketbook could swing and go for it. I recall fighting 1080 footage not too long ago and it always felt like a hardware play. I have fought this very thing over the years on different projects with different files.
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