Editing in 4K

[Dari]

As of next week Red won't be the only game in town for 4K capturing. JVC will have a new camcorder that can record in 4K at a fraction of the price.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=REG&A=details

My question is, since the format here is not proprietary, can you use an AMD 7970 or Nvidia 5/680 to edit the raw footage? Would Premiere work for this?

 

[RavenSEAL]

I believe the GTX 580(680?) can natively handle 4K video, not sure about 4K video editing...

You might wanna have a nice SB-E CPU for that stuff and a couple of GPUs.

 

[Dari]

I believe the GTX 580(680?) can natively handle 4K video, not sure about 4K video editing...

You might wanna have a nice SB-E CPU for that stuff and a couple of GPUs.

Either a couple or just one. The would I have to get a professional GPU instead?

 

[Soccerman06]

Not to nitpick, but thats not a 4k camera, its a QFHD camera.

 

[Dari]

Not to nitpick, but thats not a 4k camera, its a QFHD camera.

OK. Can you answer the question in the OP?

 

[Dari]

Can anyone answer this?

 

[JAG87]

What do you mean "editing?" If you're talking about NLE editing, you better arm yourself with as many CPU cores as you can buy, no GPU will help you with after effects. I'd say a dual Sandy Bridge-EP platform with 16 cores should do the trick.

As far as the encoding stage, that's different. If you can put up with the crappy H264 CUDA encoder in Premiere, the card you want is the 680, because it features NVEnc, which is new dedicated H264 encoding hardware on the 680 that supports up to 4096x4096.

If you don't like the results of the CUDA H264 encoder (which unless you pump tons of bitrate is pretty subpar compared to properly set AVC or VC1 encoding), then you're back to flexing the muscle of your Xeons.

 

[Dari]

What do you mean "editing?" If you're talking about NLE editing, you better arm yourself with as many CPU cores as you can buy, no GPU will help you with after effects. I'd say a dual Sandy Bridge-EP platform with 16 cores should do the trick.

As far as the encoding stage, that's different. If you can put up with the crappy H264 CUDA encoder in Premiere, the card you want is the 680, because it features NVEnc, which is new dedicated H264 encoding hardware on the 680 that supports up to 4096x4096.

If you don't like the results of the CUDA H264 encoder (which unless you pump tons of bitrate is pretty subpar compared to properly set AVC or VC1 encoding), then you're back to flexing the muscle of your Xeons.

Thanks for answering. So you're saying I don't need something like a Quaddro? I can use a regular GTX 680? As for the hardware I am upgrading to a Xeon 8-core platform.

 

[Mark R]

Thanks for answering. So you're saying I don't need something like a Quaddro? I can use a regular GTX 680? As for the hardware I am upgrading to a Xeon 8-core platform.

You need to look carefully at performance in the software you intend to be using.

NVidia severely cripple CUDA acceleration in Geforce series cards compared to Quadro cards. If your NLE software makes heavy use of CUDA, you may find that the Quadro is a better buy. However, this can vary from software package to software package, and even between effects/filter.

 

[Dari]

You need to look carefully at performance in the software you intend to be using.

NVidia severely cripple CUDA acceleration in Geforce series cards compared to Quadro cards. If your NLE software makes heavy use of CUDA, you may find that the Quadro is a better buy. However, this can vary from software package to software package, and even between effects/filter.

The NLE would be Adobe Premiere.