Premiere Pro uses specifice video cards to render video which you can see here.

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

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It depends on what editing software you are using. For example, I think Adobe premier pro doesn’t require you to “render” at all. It’s all done in realtime, so a strong gpu helps a lot in that case. Also you have to see what your particular software offloads. I know that premier pro will allow you to use an ungodly amount of cores for transcoding, which is why I use a dual xeon server as my editing machine.

Being a legal videographer, I don’t use too many effects or fancy stuff, but if you do, that’s where a specific Nvidia chips that support CUDA will help. I couldn’t find any information that said that the cards would help with transcoding… Check out this article.

http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

Anyway, if someone around here could answer this question would be really nice. I was wondering, the GPU only aids in the reproduction of the video onto the monitor right? As in, it doesn’t speed up rendering or HD video processing, or does it?

I’m in school for videography and because of some great connections within OIT I’ve learned from peers how to build my own rig.

I’m running with the AMD 1090T CPU the same as Johnq
8gb Ram (can’t remember the brand)
5750 ati radeon GPU
1 TB harddrive WD caviar blue. I’d like to upgrade to a SSD when I get the funds for it.
The AMD 1090T is an EXCELLENT processor.

I’m editing with Avid Studio currently.

I started out with building a gaming computer and by just upgrading the RAM and the CPU it made a great computer for editing video.

I second the vote for an SSD. It will make the system more snappier. However they are expensive, and you probably will not see much gain from editing unless all of your media is on the ssd. Which is probably not recommended because of all the read/write operations.

I go AMD just because of the price. AMD 1090T 6 core OC’d to 3.6 for a hundred and change got my vote.

That Mobo seems a bit overkill. The 8 SATA ports are great. I noticed it is TRIPLE CHANNEL, and you bought 4 sticks of ram. Might want to check to see if installing 4 will take it out of triple channel mode. Indicative of the colored ram slots.

hahaha “Deathstar”. I’m partial to WD although they had a big prob w/ their HD’s lately. Prices of HDD’s went up big time lately.

The gpu might be a bit overkill as well. I guess it depends on your usage. I edit with Avid Studio and my gpu rarely gets hit hard. Granted I don’t do all that much with transitions, but its my CPU that takes the beating.

With gaming I think it is the other way around. Performance relies on the gpu the most.

Good luck with your new build! The great thing with technology is that in a year or two you will get to do this all over again!

To the author: the SSD is a must. It will greatly improve file transfer times from your media to your computer and helps a lot for rendering as well. Computers have advanced to the point where the main bottleneck is getting the information from the hard drive to the processor to be processed. The big disc drives they have now are great for archival, but unless you have a RAID array, you won’t get near the performance compared to the SSD. The trick is to set it up in a way where your OS, program files, and working copies are kept on the SSD, and final products, archives, and other raw files like music, movies, and photos are kept on the HDD.