Best hardware for editting and encoding?

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blade52x

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Current system specs:
  • 8086k at 5.2ghz
  • 64gb DDR4 at 3.6ghz
  • 3TB NVMe SSD active storage
Amazing for gaming, but trying to edit and then encode 8K video in Adobe Premiere Pro CC is painfully slow.

Video file sizes:
  • 7680 × 4320 at 60fps
  • 7680 × 7680 (3D) at 30fps
If I don't edit the video, encoding by itself isn't too bad right now. It's maybe 10 minutes of processing per minute of video. But once I start adding things like color adjustments, or a denoiser, the processing time jumps significantly to on the order of a day for a 10 minute video.

I'm pretty new to video editing and encoding and am wondering if I need something more workstation grade, or maybe even dual socket to reduce these times?
 
The fastest cpu for encoding I think is an i9-7960X followed by the Threadripper 2990WX. Not cheap thou lol
 
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TheFlayedMan said:
The fastest cpu for encoding I think is an i9-7960X followed by the Threadripper 2990WX. Not cheap thou lol
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Yup. And you'd probably want to stick with Intel if you're going to use Premier.

blade52x said:
I'm pretty new to video editing and encoding and am wondering if I need something more workstation grade, or maybe even dual socket to reduce these times?
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I'm going to suggest something different: try Davinci Resolve, and try running it on Linux, which you can do from a USB stick. Also share your GPU setup.
 
Davinci relies heavily on graphics cards rather than processors. It’s nice. Adobe premiere uses a fair bit of grunt, what suits you better depends on your workload..
 
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