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The older Core i7-8700K and the classic Core i7-7700 still perform well if you can get them at a discount. The eight-core Intel Core i7-9700 is the first choice at this level. For consumers, eight is a very good number. For most purposes, including video editing and gaming, it’s generally better to have faster cores (more GHz) rather than more slower cores. Today, Intel’s Core i9-9900K and AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X have eight cores and 16 threads, while the Ryzen Threadripper 2 2990WX has 32 cores and 64 threads. Not so long ago, “dual core” chips were a thing, and then we got cores that could run two threads at once.

Most people do not need a fast processor most of the time, but when I’m processing videos, all six cores in my Core i5-8400 run at close to 100% for extended periods. Photograph: Intel Corporationīuy the fastest processor you can afford, and in general, the more cores the better. Processor choiceĬhoosing the right processor is crucial. In fact, some pros build “ render farms” to do jobs that can take too long on a PC, such as 3D work and After Effects. If it takes a couple of minutes, you will. If your PC takes a couple of hours to render a video, you’re not going to try a lot of options. It’s easy to do simple video editing, such as “topping and tailing” a YouTube video and adding titles, but serious post-processing work can use all the power you can afford, simply because of the time taken. Most cheap computers can edit and display videos, because video decoding is now built into the processor. Most digital cameras and smartphones can now shoot video, and GoPro-style “action cameras” and drones are generating tons of the stuff.

You no longer need to buy a video camera, a projector, a screen and a cement splicer, which is how we edited home movies in the old days. There is a growing interest in video editing, possibly because video is becoming ubiquitous, and cheap. I was considering building a PC to suit, but not sure if this would be a step too far. What would be the best solution – either laptop or desktop – that will also last a good few years? Our budget is around £1,000. Our three-year-old laptop is just about coping with the demands of the software, but as she becomes more proficient, I know it will struggle or give up entirely. We got her a student subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud so she could learn and use After Effects and Premiere Pro. My 13-year-old daughter is showing a real interest in, and talent for, video editing.