I could not find a suitable place for asking about 4K editing hardware requirements. Please forgive if I just overlooked it.

I edit in Adobe PP CC 2017 on a Mac but am looking to move to 4k sometime soon. I understand that the answer is probably not one single answer due to what type of editing, how much footage, etc, but nonetheless I am looking for some basic information on minimum system requirements (CPU, Cores, Memory, VCard, etc) to begin looking for a suitable machine to make the upgrade. Again, my apologies if this post is wrongly placed. 4K is a very wide term and depending on what format that 4K is in it can be cheap or it can be very expensive. Is the 4K: -Uncompressed? TIFF, DPX, EXR. You'll need insanely fast drives to work with these.

R3D, Arri, CinemaDNG, etc. You'll need a combination of fast CPU and GPU to work with these.

I edit 4k ProRes 4:2:2 files in Adobe Premiere Pro all the time. My PC is nowhere neat the specs mentioned above, and I have experienced any slow-down's in performance. My PC: AMD FX 8150 OC'ed to 5.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 Ram, GTX 760 2GB Graphics Card. Everything else is standard, run-of-the-mill. Mar 08, 2017  I want to subscribe to Premiere Pro for editing movies, but I get a message that my Mac doesn´t meet the system requirements for Premiere Pro, and I just can´t figure out what I need to change. All looks good to me.

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Depending on the compression you'll probably need SSDs for media drives. -Nicely compressed? Prores, DNxHD, other 'visually lossless' pro formats.

These work pretty nicely with basic hardware up until you want to put effects on them. -Heavily compressed?

H264, H265 usually from DSLRs or cheapo cameras. These are usually really, really intensive to decode even on faster hardware and I would suggest to transcode these to better codecs like DNxHD or Prores. Also do you need to run these in full res or can you work in half/quarter/eighth quality? Do you want to use proxies? This can bring the requirements down a bit.

Jeff makes an excellent point about bang for buck. I was all in on Apple machines for years until this year when I decided to get a new one.

I switched to a custom PC from Puget Systems. They have great support - you call them and they answer the phone and are extremely helpful. One year on-site service included with the machine. I shoot and edit mostly 4K from C300MK2. For me it was definitely worth the switch. Neal Broffman One Production Place, Atlanta, GA Current FIlm: Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi. I'd advocate that you give the Premiere Proxy option another try.

It took a bit of research since it wasn't very intuitive, but eventually I figured out that you can customize proxy presets instead of just using the defaults. You have to build your custom ingest preset in Encoder and then export that preset out to your desktop or other location so that you can import it when prompted in your ingest settings in premiere.