Is an I7 processor absolutely necessary for video editing

[MasterLuc]

Is an I7 processor absolutely necessary for video editing, how much of a difference does it make and is there anything else that would do just as well or a just about the same

 

[patrick47018]

You could look at getting an FX-8350 if you are looking for a more budget minded approach

 

[rgd1101]

Any processor meet the min spec for the software would do. i7 would just make it run faster(take less time)

 

[jimthenagual]

Here is a good chart showing how long it took each different cpu to encode a Video to H.264 Blu-ray 720p (Video runtime 2min 21s).
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2013/-34-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CS6,3171.html

 

[ethereal essence]

You could look at getting an FX-8350 if you are looking for a more budget minded approach

+1

I'd recommend the 8350 as well. It may not outperform an i7, but it is very very close for over 100.00 less. So you won't be sacrificing much performance to save some money. You could save even more by going with an 8320 or 6300 etc....

the only thing going with a slow cpu will do is increase the time it takes. As far as performance vs price, the 8320 and 8350 are very awesome for video editing.

 

[hunter315]

For casual video editing an i3 can do the job, its just going to take an unholy amount of time to encode. Some encoders will scale to as many cores as you can throw at them, some will only use two or four, so its important to know your software, if you have one that will take as many cores as you can throw at it you can expect close to linear scaling, double the cores half the time ish, you just need to decide if its worth the extra money to save a little extra time occasionally.

If you are looking to do lots of video work and that will be your primary use of the machine you should be looking into the software you plan to use and finding out what it recommends, some can get boosted by nVidia GPUs, some by AMD GPUs, but really for hard core video editing you should be looking at a multiprocessor system with a professional GPU in it.