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How to Edit 4K/8K/12K on a Slow PC – Improve video editing Speed

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  • 01Proxy workflows make 4K timelines smooth on hardware from 2018.
  • 02DaVinci Resolve is free and handles 8K+ better than paid alternatives.
  • 03Storage bandwidth is the bottleneck — NVMe matters more than CPU cores at this resolution.

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I’ll try to edit a 12k video on this old laptop and if it fails to do so… I’ll be giving away a thousand dollars

Destroying my laptop to edit 12K Video

I’m

one morning, I posted this, clearly in jest… .asked for some software suggestion

but they took it seriously and this innocent post got all these snob editors mad.

well, challenge accepted gonna do 12k but first, I’m gonna start with 4k!

I’m gonna do 4k but I’ll first start with 4k

I need to add some color effects to make this laptop cry

No way it’s still handling it fairly well, guess it saved me my $500.

no so soon…

4K


Look it’s scrubbing and playing the 4k video just fine the 4k video just video.

So now I will add some color effects

aight, how bout we add some color fx

now way it’s still working fine, guess it just saved me 500 hundred

oh, it saved my 500 dollars for now at least

that is until…

that’s so obvious innit, no it’s not…

8K


aight right outdagate I know aint gonna handle it

dude, it’s heavy, so much so I can feel the weight of this 8K video through the cursor. so much so I can feel it through the cursor.

now the video has disappeared?

I reckon it’s frozen cause it shouldn’t be takin this long just to process a video but then it’s an 8k Video it is to be expected.

what you thought I was using a decent pc and fool and fool you guys with a click bait, I would never do that.

so like after waiting for a whole minute, I managed to get the video loaded onto the timeline

it’s still as unresponsive as ever

c’mon now stop freezing Shout

aight edit some curves

a full 3 minutes later the curve shows up

12K


alrighty, here I am download a 12k video, a min clip is like 10gig in size crazy…

the default video play couldn’t play it, am not not surprised.

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On the same beat.

look at the details of the video, dude look at those insane bitrate

just for fun I played it on windows media player…

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I’ll try to edit a 12k video on this old laptop and if it fails to do so… I’ll be giving away a thousand dollars

Destroying my laptop to edit 12K Video

I’m

one morning, I posted this, clearly in jest… .asked for some software suggestion

but they took it seriously and this innocent post got all these snob editors mad.

well, challenge accepted gonna do 12k but first, I’m gonna start with 4k!

I’m gonna do 4k but I’ll first start with 4k

I need to add some color effects to make this laptop cry

No way it’s still handling it fairly well, guess it saved me my $500.

no so soon…

4K


Look it’s scrubbing and playing the 4k video just fine the 4k video just video.

So now I will add some color effects

aight, how bout we add some color fx

now way it’s still working fine, guess it just saved me 500 hundred

oh, it saved my 500 dollars for now at least

that is until…

that’s so obvious innit, no it’s not…

8K


aight right outdagate I know aint gonna handle it

dude, it’s heavy, so much so I can feel the weight of this 8K video through the cursor. so much so I can feel it through the cursor.

now the video has disappeared?

I reckon it’s frozen cause it shouldn’t be takin this long just to process a video but then it’s an 8k Video it is to be expected.

what you thought I was using a decent pc and fool and fool you guys with a click bait, I would never do that.

so like after waiting for a whole minute, I managed to get the video loaded onto the timeline

it’s still as unresponsive as ever

c’mon now stop freezing Shout

aight edit some curves

a full 3 minutes later the curve shows up

12K


alrighty, here I am download a 12k video, a min clip is like 10gig in size crazy…

the default video play couldn’t play it, am not not surprised.

look at the details of the video, dude look at those insane bitrate

just for fun I played it on windows media player…

● Editor's takeaways
Faster scrubs on quarter-res proxies vs. native 4K
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Modern color grading + edit pipeline if you skip Adobe
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PCIe needed for sustained 8K reads from disk
Resolution is a storage problem, not a CPU one.
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@nikita.eng🏆· 1h ago
This matches the back-of-envelope numbers we ran at our shop two quarters ago. We sized the seat-tax at ~18% of the SaaS market — your 412 is a way better dataset though. Saving this.
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@priya.raman· 52m ago
Thanks Nikita. The dataset is on the methodology page; happy to share the public-page scrape if you want to reproduce.
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