This workstation is designed to give good performance in the most common of HD and 4K workflows, while not completely draining your bank account. The same will be true for VR in resolutions beyond 4K and in 3D. For complex 4K workflows with heavy color correction and effects or frame rates at 60 frames per second or higher, you may need a bit more power to meet demanding deadlines. Currently, a entry level professional workstation will easily handle raw or uncompressed HD and simple 4K work. State of the art computing power also comes with a premium price. You’ll want a system that is definitely built for professional video work but not necessarily state of the art, because that is a lot of power to sit idling while you decide where to make that next cut. So where is the happy balance? As an editor, I believe for most of us it’s found in a entry level professional workstation.

It can be as drastic as one editor screaming at his machine to run faster, while another is standing on her chair holding up the keyboard and yelling, “I have the power!”, while working on identical computers with the same software. The question of how much power is needed depends greatly on the demands of your workflow. Software companies tend to only give specs for the minimum hardware needed to run the application with maybe a single jump up for 4K or 3D, which doesn’t really give you a good concept of how much power you’ll need. Your software will also determine what operating system you’ll need to install. If you’re going to be using specialized software like Maya for animation, you’ll want to check the system requirements of these programs as well. The hardware I have chosen for this build is designed to work well for popular editing titles including Premiere Pro, Vegas, and Media Composer as well as other tools like DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, and Pro Tools. If you're building a system to run demanding programs like your editing software or a few others titles like After Effects or DaVinci Resolve, it makes sense to start by looking at the system requirements for the software you’ll be using.

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