Premiere system purchasing advice, Mac Vs. PC. ...and to pile on to Steve's response...I run McAfee antivirus onall my machines and really don't run into virus problems. My daughter's laptop is always an issue, but she ignores my advice about visiting these various pirate TV show websites, which are created by...pirates. A professional edit workstation shouldn't double as a personal machine...simple as that. I've been using Windows since about the second drop of OSX, and I've had very little problem with viruses...in fact I can't remember having a virus on an editing machine.
Drivers are another issue. Admittedly, with the wide variety of peripherals and component combinations, you can get drivers that conflict or have some weird interaction. However, an edit machine shouldn't be constantly tweaked and updated once it's working well either...so it's a matter of management. Apple is not immune from updates of one thing that break another thing. The system builders I mentioned in the previous post work similarly, I'm sure. Pomprint - Conseil, Suivi, Maintenance. Blog - Videoguys' System Recommendations for Video Editing. Videoguys' System Recommendations for Video Editing (March 2014 Update) We get asked all the time, "What computer system should I use for Video Editing?
"So, we created this page to give you some basic guidelines. Every month computers get more powerful and less expensive, so the recommendations on this page could become outdated very quickly. We will try our best to keep it up to date but if you see something that doesn’t look right or if you’re configuring a system that may be somewhat different please e-mail (techguy@videoguys.com) or call the Videoguys at 800-323-2325 and we’d be happy to review your plans.
We want to help you make sure you have everything you need to edit & produce great videos. This page is broken into several sections: What kind of computer you need and why? Videoguy's DTV Tech Support Hotline (516) 759-1615 The minimum recommended system mythMany computer software and hardware vendors will list a minimum system spec that is often not adequate. RAID Warning! Video - Station de travail informatique. LDLC.com, l'achat high-tech en toute sérénité. Multimedia Computers : Custom Built PC : Video Editing Computers : Cerise Computers, LLC. PC Build for VFX and motion graphics. Quote: You also mentioned "It would also be used for a lot of After Effects motion graphics work and video editing type stuff. " Think of it in this way, your CPU will be handling your offline rendering speed which if it takes extra minutes/hours to complete, ok you can deal with that.
But if your on-screen performance gets bogged down while you are editing in After Effects, for instance, and you end up waiting, for the sake of discussion, an extra 5 or 10 seconds between every scrub/mouse click/screen refresh or the like. Then that really hampers your productivity AND if its severe enough could even allow you to have unintended erroneous input with your mouse while you are waiting for the display to refresh which ends up being counterproductive. Will your workload push that 570 with 1.25GB VRAM into that mode? Dunno, maybe. But if all you needed was to spend a few bucks more now to boost the VRAM up to 3GB and also get a bump in the processor, overall giving you more on-screen headroom.