Which Computer for Photo & Video Editing?
Which Computer for Photo & Video Editing?
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STARTER CAMERAS:
Basic Starter Camera ($280 used at Amazon): Canon T3 http://help.tc/t3
Better Starter Camera ($500 at Amazon): Nikon D5300 http://help.tc/d5300
Better Travel Camera ($500 at Amazon): Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II http://help.tc/em10ii
LANDSCAPE CAMERAS:
Good ($550 at Amazon): Sony a6000 http://help.tc/a6000
Better ($1,400) at Amazon: Nikon D5500 http://help.tc/D5500 & Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 http://help.tc/s35
Best ($3,150) at Amazon: Pentax K-1 http://help.tc/K1 & Pentax 24-70 f/2.8 http://help.tc/p24
PORTRAIT CAMERAS:
Beginner ($950 at Amazon): Canon T6i http://help.tc/t6i & Canon 50mm f/1.8 http://help.tc/c50
Better ($3,000 at Amazon): Nikon D610 http://help.tc/d610 & Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 http://help.tc/t200
Best ($5,300) at Amazon: Nikon D810 http://help.tc/d810 & Nikon 70-200 f/2.8E http://help.tc/n200e
WILDLIFE CAMERAS:
Starter ($1,100 at Amazon): Canon 7D http://help.tc/7D & Canon 400mm f/5.6 http://help.tc/c400
Great ($3,200 at Amazon): Nikon D500 http://help.tc/d500 & Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 http://help.tc/n500
VIDEO CAMERAS:
Beginner ($500 at Amazon): Panasonic G7 http://help.tc/g7 & Panasonic 14-42mm http://help.tc/p42
Better ($1,400 at Amazon): Panasonic GH4 http://amzn.to/2p5dAmD & Panasonic 14-140 f/3.5-5.6 http://help.tc/p140
Best ($4,300 at Amazon): Panasonic GH5 http://help.tc/gh5 & Metabones Speed Booster XL http://help.tc/mbxl & Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 http://help.tc/s35 & Sigma 50-100 f/1.8 http://help.tc/s100
DRONES:
Beginner ($400 at Amazon): DJI Phantom 3 http://help.tc/p3
Travel ($1,000 at Amazon): DJI Mavic Pro http://help.tc/Mavic
Better Image Quality ($1,500 at Amazon): DJI Phantom 4 Pro http://help.tc/p4p
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hey guys im still trying to register it in my mind lol….. like for example, you raise your brush size to idk (4000px) most pc it will lag bc itts alot of pixels at once ….okay that said…. what will have to be upgraded to SMOOTHEN that brush size’ stroke
This is 5 years old. Could you do one for 2020?
Film/Slides in slide folders in a Steel File Cabinet. Faster faster and faster…And you never ever have to back them up. Easy to find if filed properly. So now you got tons of lousy digital shots for one.
I’m still editing on my laptop screen blah.!
I never use Lightroom, but I do use Photoshop and another program.
time to update? 4 years is a lot…almost worthwhile to consider removing this video
Sounds a little like ZFS… though I think I’ll still stay with ZFS due to how proven it is in large industries and how versatile it is.
I’m impressed, however you gave a figure of $10,000 at the end of the computer for a bigger system, and I was thinking your system might be more than that. Either way very impressed with you desktop. Also that you wrote 10 books on Microsoft if I heard you right. You also wrote many books on photography. I guess it all ads up and that’s how you now have 1.4 million YouTube subscribers. Keep leading the way Tony and with your beautiful, intelligent and good sense of humor wife Chelsea as your partner in the business.
is a dedicated gpu very important to run lightroom in a 4k monitor??
or the integrated graphic of a i7 7500u is enought to run it ?
what monitor are you using in the video
Fantastic! Knowledg … I would like betting more on Nvidia graphic card or what is yours?
In 2019, the answer to this question is easy. For Lightroom and Photoshop, any modern i3 or newer. For LR, on-board graphics is fine, for PS, a discreet GPU will help. 8GB of RAM or beyond is great, 16GB in 2019 is highly desireable.
For video editing, more is always better, and your hardware can never be enough. More RAM, faster i7s or even i9s, AMD chips are great too these days, and the best GPU you can put in (preferably Nvidia). Anywhere from 32GB to 128GB of RAM will be amazing, but again, the more the better.
Off you go!
Thanks for this great video Tony! I am having a customized computer built and your video gives me some ideas on making my system even better. Figuring out that a customized computer would best fit my needs got me out of the cookie cutter computer purchasing mentality. If I had three thumbs this would be a three thumbs up video!
2020 update thank you please Tony 🙏🏼
To my favorite photo educator (Tony), you get most all things right, but you’ve got it wrong on the speed at which data transfers to/from the outer tracks on a disc v. the the inner tracks on a disk. I know this is a very old post, so you’ve probably already got this feedback.
The # of sectors on the inner tracks are the same as the # of sectors on the outer tracks. The disc surface may be moving faster on the outside v. the inside, but the amount of data in an outer sector is the same as the inner sector. The data is merely spread farther out on the outside v. the inside tracks. This is true from the time the drive is formatted throughout the writing and subsequent reading of the data. So, the data transfer rate is marginally the same.
What slows the drive down as it gets older and fuller, is that the data gets defragmented, requiring the disc to seek from track to track GOBBLING UP TIME. Running "Defrag" helps to solve this issue. SSDs obviously don’t have this problem, as no seeking is ever required.
We are 2019 this is 2015 WOW !!LOL
Thank you, for the information. Also big up for the honesty regarding mac/PC laying your cards on the table.
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2020 and I ditched Adobe as HDR was maxing out 8 gigs of ram and taking 20 minutes while the CPU was basically idle. Shitty software as 8 gigs should have been enough. Then I got 16 gigs and it is still slow… Looks like I am going to servers with dual everything now. lol Time for an update yet????
Thanks for sharing this info…
Hey unless you shoot 4k video a average laptop will do. This is a geek mania video. Dont give up if you are poor like me.
Just ram and CPU is important. Gpu is not.
Can you recommend a laptop or desktop and/or what specs I will require of such to run Photoshop/Lightroom, please in layman’s terms.
Might be time to update this… in 2020 I think you could survive with a more powerful machine….
Nerd!
I wouldn’t even dream of buying an Apple product. They are just so over priced.
SSD’s are fast, but if they fail you (will usually) lose everything. If a SATA drive fails, you can
(usually) recover your data. As Tony says, all drives will eventually fail.
I prefer configuration is 2*2Tb Seagate Enterprise edition in Raid 0 with 10gb network link.For desktop PC I use quad core 32gb if ram,1080Ti, 256gb ssd with 10gb network link.
Would love an update on this with the fact that tech has moved on… Say three builds… Ultimate, Pro and Budget?!?
So I’m done with Mac and looking for a PC for pro level video editing. I’m looking at the high end stuff (like Digital Storm) but right now I’m in the process of learning what everything is so I can figure out exactly what I need. My question is, would one very high end graphics card be enough for me? I make videos that require a lot of editing and special effects. Also, you didn’t mention cores. Are more cores necessarily better? The Digital Storm has 18 – is that overkill? Lastly, what sort of motherboard should I get? I know basically nothing about motherboards, or how to choose one.
Ok enough is enough you like to brag thats not what I wanted to see what drives you have I wanted to know whats the best computer so please get with the program and don’t waste my time
Several top photographers have told me that their Mac computers crashed a lot, and they have gone to a PC. The irritating thing with my PC is that Windows keeps putting junk files on my hard drive that slows down editing and interferes with my software. I have to delete them daily.
*POWER-HOUSE*
Every editor’s dream pc
Great video. There are far too few videos about computers that we ACTUALLY USE for WORK, vs what people are building for gaming. I built my last computer in 2013 and am ready for a new build. I also would love to see an update to this, although I need mine built pretty soon. Just too many scares! LOL
some things to notice:
1) Adding a liquid cooling device will add extra risk to the pc itself, any fail in the cooling solution will mostly end up in a catastrophic fail of several components, mostly Psu and Mobo, which are basically the 2 single components that can burn everything else. An aftermarket air cooler in the range of Hyper 212 Evo can be a much wiser option, despite having a more limited OC headroom
2) iGPU (integrated GPUs) are not a clever choice even for photo editing, they will "eat" some ram (from 256 to 1024mb, but 512mb seems the ok number) to be used as shared memory. A discrete GPU even a lower end from a couple of gens back like R7 250 or GTX750 can provide a really improved performance. For video Editing, even 4K, a mid range GPU like Rx 580 it is more than OK, but it is wise to expend a little extra to reduce render times
3) RAM: not less than 8gb for photo editing, Layers tend to eat up a lot of ram… 16gb will be the desired number for video editing, but double those numbers will provide room to stretch.
4) HDD/SSD: The best advice tony gave, the Disk array he assembled it is the one anyone should desire for his PC. Some cheaper less expensive build could also work
5) CPU: at this point in time any modern DDR4 CPU with 4 cores or more will provide superb experience for photo editing, even 2nd gen 4core intels will be more than OK (i would say that Fx 8 core too, but i don’t want to get bashed). For video Editing 1080p should need those same requirements, but 4K vid editing takes at least 6 core 12 thread CPU, and to be honest, 8 core 16 thread should be the aimed CPU
1TB ssd and i9 64g RAM..for the win…. (bragging a bit….he he).
Can you do a new one for 2019-20 ?
Tony great video. I messaged you via dpreview about this because this vid is old now and would like new advice. ReFS is only available on workstation versions of windows (not even available on pro). Can you give us an update or some advice? Do I go for workstation windows 10 and use ReFS with mirroring RAID 1?
your pc is killing machine I’m dreaming bout it whoahh
OMG!!! This is so retro. September 2019 calling. After waiting a long time, as Tony pointed out in the video, Moores law was a bit slow for some years. But picked up here in 2019. Thanks AMD!
have been watching your videos for years for photography and they are so helpful, but glad that I found this one as I plan to make my own PC. For the drives that you mirrored, which HDD type do you use i.e. Regular Desktop HDD or NAS Drive?
Can you update this video for 2020?
I wish you make a 2021 video about : Which Computer for Photo & Video Editing
Can anyone recommend me the best monitor for video editing and some color work for under $250?
There are two kinds of people: those who do backups and those who will be doing backups.
Would love if you updated this topic for 2020.
This was EXACTLY what I was looking for ! Very well explained , thank you so much !
How built your computer…my 10 years custom made just died. Had similar setup with 1 SDD and 8 storage internal HDS but the builder is not longer in business.
Hi, Tony, can you update this video for 2020??
Nice Vid, lots info. keep it up.