HP Pavilion's Power

[Avione07]

I'm not very knowledgeable in the realm of IT, but I have a HP Pavilion, no upgrades, and wanted to know if this desktop is powerful enough to export 1- hour videos in less than 1 hour? I use Premier Pro to edit videos, and though I would like to do longer videos, my desktop takes too long to export them. Example, I create a one-hour video with only audio and video transitions. My desktop sometimes takes 30 minutes, and other times takes 2 hours. I have tried to adjust everything in the program to shorten the export time and nothing really works, so I was wondering if this is a hardware problem. For reference, I have 60gb of space on my desktop.

[old_geekster]

@Avione07 , welcome to the Community.

What is the Product Number of the computer? I need this information to review the specifications of it. Please don't furnish the Serial # or other personal information. You can find the Product Number at the bottom of the page when you open HP Support Assistant.  Once I have this information I will try to answer your question.

[Avione07]

The product number is 6YQ86AAR#ABA.

[old_geekster]

Thank you for the additional information, @Avione07!

It is very difficult to know if what you want to achieve is possible with only 8GB of memory and 2GB of video memory.  I do have my doubts that it will work.

[Avione07]

Is it costly to upgrade both of those?

[Prométhée]

hi @Avione07  , @old_geekster 

sorry @old_geekster  but if can help you

"Example, I create a one-hour video with only audio and video transitions. My desktop sometimes takes 30 minutes, and other times takes 2 hours. I have tried to adjust everything in the program to shorten the export time "

what do you mean here, it is the time of creation of the video, recording on the computer?
Or "export" because you transfer the video somewhere?
what software do you use?

[NonSequitur777 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Avione07,

To the question: can I Upgrade my HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-0066 for the purpose of pro video editing?

By Zeus, yes, you can!

The question is: how much money are you willing to invest in it to make that happen?

Firstly, according to HP's specs, your "Erica" motherboard, SSID: 8643: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06429270 has two memory slots, and can handle up to 32 GB (2 x 16GB) of unbuffered udimm DDR4-25600 (3200 MHz) RAM.

For video etc. editing, you would need AT LEAST 16 GB (2 x 8GB).

If this PC was mine, I would seriously consider to purchase this RAM (or something like it): TEAMGROUP Elite Plus 2 x 8GB DDR4 PC4-25600 UDIMM unbuffered (288-pin) which is offered at Amazon for $57.99 -pretty competitively priced, imo.

If you want to go all out, 2 x16GB of the same brand would set you back $116.99 as seen via the same Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/TEAMGROUP-3200MHz-PC4-25600-Unbuffered-Computer/dp/B086X2FK4T/ref=sr_1_8?crid...

Secondly, if you haven't done so already, your PC really needs to have a decent primary/boot solid state drive (SSD). I would suggest at least 500 GB, but that is up to you. You can purchase a 500 GB SSD for less than $60 via Amazon.

Thirdly, you need to pair the above with a decent processor. At least an AMD Ryzen 5 3500 ($150+ via eBay), better still: an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X ($220+ via eBay).

Fourthly [EDIT:], Lest I forget: if you go with one of the two AMD Ryzen CPU's I mentioned, you'll need to add a graphics processing unit (GPU) in your motherboard's PCIe X16 socket because these processors don't have integrated graphics. According to UserBenchMark [dot] com, Users have installed up to a Nvidia RTX 2060: https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/HP-Pavilion-tp01-0066-Desktop-Rfrbd-PC/178616 -That would be major overkill for your purposes, so instead consider something like a Low Power, Low Profile RX 550: https://www.amazon.com/MSI-128-bit-DirectX-Graphcis-Renewed/dp/B07S1CSF72/ref=sr_1_4?crid=210ML02S00... which costs $145.17 at this moment in time [02/05/2020].

And there you have it. The computer components mentioned here would transform your desktop into a lean-mean Editing machine.

The thirty minutes to two hours video transition time will shrink to a fraction of the time it takes right now.

Good luck!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Avione07]

I use Premiere Pro to do the editing. The program allows you to render the scenes, so it doesn't have to while exporting. I also turned down the bitrate to 5-6, but none of this shortens the time. 

[Prométhée]

hi

 it's up to you, you have already validated an answer
It would depend on the version you used, but at least see the system requirements before replacing everything
If you had another software, I would advise you to try another.
But like the latter at a certain price...
In any case, compare well with your current configuration!

HP Pavilion Desktop - TP01-0066

8 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM (1 x 8 GB)

Internal Storage

256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

processor

AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X (3.6 GHz base clock, up to 4.4 GHz max boost clock, 32 MB cache, 8 cores)

Graphics Card

AMD Radeon™ 550 Graphics (2 GB GDDR5 dedicated)

Power Supply Type

310 W Gold efficiency power supply

You already have the best compatible processor

indicated supported by the motherboard

a more powerful graphics card, will require replacing the power supply

•  TP01-0066 Product Specifications
•  motherboard specifications, Erica

system requirements for

Premiere Pro 22.1.2, Premiere Pro 22.1.1 (December releases), and Premiere Pro 22.0 (October 2021) release. See previous System Requirements here.

Recommended specifications

for HD, 4K, or higher

Intel® 7th Gen or newer CPU with Quick Sync – or AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series / Threadripper 2000 series or newer CPU

Dual-channel memory:

• 16 GB of RAM for HD media

• 32 GB or more for 4K and higher

GPU

• 4 GB of GPU memory for HD and some 4K media

• 6 GB or more for 4K and higher 

For a list of supported graphic cards, see Supported graphics cards for Adobe Premiere Pro.

10 Gigabit ethernet for 4K shared network workflow

For NVIDIA graphics we recommend using GPUs that support NVIDIA Studio Drivers.

@old_geekster  first responder who requested the required information
which were to be used to help here
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