Speeding up photo/video editing

6.5 what set aside?

More RAM will give you a disk cache, which could be super helpful with large video files or multiple streams.

Ainoko wrote in post #15012525
hmmm well I just ran Adobe Premiere with my resource manager running, and during playback it never spikes more than 4gb ram used. I have 8 total, and I checked my preferences in Premiere, and have 6.5 set aside for editing. Is there something I'm missing? Playback is generally fine when it's yellow, but really choppy during red. In yellow my CPU is running at ~50%, and in red it's spiking up to nearly 100%.

What sort of video are you editing?

My RAM usage never used to get above 7GB when I only had 8, now it gets above 10GB while doing the same things.
Rather than using ALL the ram, Premier caches a lot to disc.

However, if your only editing standard def footage, or only have one track in the timeline then 8GB of ram will be enough.

The footage you have that's red, will turn yellow and the footage that's yellow will turn green with an Nvidia card.

Ainoko wrote in post #15012525
hmmm well I just ran Adobe Premiere with my resource manager running, and during playback it never spikes more than 4gb ram used. I have 8 total, and I checked my preferences in Premiere, and have 6.5 set aside for editing. Is there something I'm missing? Playback is generally fine when it's yellow, but really choppy during red. In yellow my CPU is running at ~50%, and in red it's spiking up to nearly 100%.

You probably could use a more recent video card with a stronger GPU, which might assume some of the load that's currently spiking the CPU. I doubt that it makes any difference which one, so long as it's "a bunch" (<== highly technical term) more powerful than your current one, which is fairly outdated.

As you have seen, it's unlikely that RAM is a huge problem, but reducing paging overhead is a good thing, and more RAM will do that, as will putting your paging and any premiere scratch files on an SSD.

Finally, there's an old saying in computers: "Parts is Parts." There's very little performance difference between the top end of two hardware vendor's parts, and they're basically interchageable.

Here's what Tom's Hardware wrote back in June about Nvidia's top card vs Radeon:

Hen3Ry wrote in post #15013733
You probably could use a more recent video card with a stronger GPU, which might assume some of the load that's currently spiking the CPU. I doubt that it makes any difference which one, so long as it's "a bunch" (<== highly technical term) more powerful than your current one, which is fairly outdated.

As you have seen, it's unlikely that RAM is a huge problem, but reducing paging overhead is a good thing, and more RAM will do that, as will putting your paging and any premiere scratch files on an SSD.

Finally, there's an old saying in computers: "Parts is Parts." There's very little performance difference between the top end of two hardware vendor's parts, and they're basically interchageable.

Here's what Tom's Hardware wrote back in June about Nvidia's top card vs Radeon:

Really?


*Bangs head against desk, rips the top off the empire state building then finds a tall leggy blonde*


Please go and read the whole thread, Adobe Premier does not use any AMD/ATI cards for hardware based gpu acceleration. It only makes use of Nvidia cards.

I'd like to get a GPU for around $200... How is something like this?http://www.newegg.com …aspx?Item=N82E1​6814130826

Ainoko wrote in post #15037854
I'd like to get a GPU for around $200... How is something like this?http://www.newegg.com …aspx?Item=N82E1​6814130826

Or there are used GTX 570's all over ebay for less than $200 too.

ben_r_ wrote in post #15045439
Or there are used GTX 570's all over ebay for less than $200 too.

Eeeeh I dunno how I feel buying used computer parts on ebay. How do the different series stack up against each other? like the 560 vs 660 series? And the 660 vs 670?

Ainoko wrote in post #15046378
Eeeeh I dunno how I feel buying used computer parts on ebay. How do the different series stack up against each other? like the 560 vs 660 series? And the 660 vs 670?

Google is your friend there.