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The best advice given by others is a desktop with a 4k monitor. I7 processor and at least 16gb of memory. However, My main computer use requires a laptop with great battery life, so 4k editing is incidental.
I use a Dell XPS 13 with Adobe Premier elements 2018.
First the screen.
To see 4K at its best, you need a monitor/screen/TV that will display that resolution.
However, you don't need that resolution for editing. Whatever screen resolution you have will rescale appropriately, so you can see the image. Also, the editing window is smaller than the screen, so the image will rescale anyway to fit it and if it is a 4K resolution, that image in the window will be a lower resolution, for that reason.
For editing, it is more important to have the screen calibrated so the colour you see on the screen is accurate. Don't forget, some other screen or TV may show different tones anyway, but at least you will have got your video to the right standard of colour tone. By this I mean that on screen A, the reds and blues might look great, but greens are poor. Screen B might be perfect with all tones.
As you know, 4K is a resolution. However, there are many other factors that come into play. Bitrate is an important one, because (put simply) a low bitrate will give a small file size and poor video quality, even though it is still 4K. A high bitrate means very large and superb video quality. It is easily possible to have HD or 1080P looking far sharper and vibrant and with a smaller file size than a unwise choice of bitrate at 4K.
The computer.
Assuming an I7 processor with 16GB memory or faster, you also need a fast hard disk, built in. I expect any good brand computer that is new will have a drive that is quite adequate. What you must avoid like the plague, is an external drive or usb device. The drive has to be able to supply 4K data at high enough speed so you don't get a jerky or stuttering data flow. You can store the video on an external USB device, but it is unlikely it will play well. The bottleneck is the circuitry between the hard drive itself and the bus inside the computer. Adobe Premier is not happy about taking the video file from the drone chip. Best to pop it into a file on drive C to edit from. You can always move it when finished.
I have found that VLC is less suitable for playback of 4K with a quality bitrate than the thing Win10 has currently. You might find different results, but the clue is a jerky output. The data is just not being processed fast enough. When I first discovered this issue, I suspected the drone was faulty. It was fine though, just the video playback software.
A tip. During editing, you might have this stuttering, to a slight degree. It probably isn't an issue, but if you render the edit first, it should run perfectly. The downside is the waste of time rendering, because you still have to process the edit when you finalise the project. I just accept the stutter during editing, because it will be fine on completion.
Editing.
You have cut and shut the clips and added sound etc. The choice of parameters you use when you process this video into the final article can be the thing that makes you want to cry. It took me some experimenting to get the results I was looking for. Each editor (person) will have their own preferences, and there is nothing wrong with that. I tend to keep the same parameters as the original from the drone. There is a tickbox that deals with that and most of your issues will vanish. It requires a user profile, but once created, it can be used ever after.
I have used Adobe Premier, the pro job, but frankly, it does not make life easy. Fine if you want all the bells and whistles, but for most people, the result is adequately achieved with the lesser software.
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