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April 16, 2012
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My first PC build for video editing purposes

  • April 16, 2012
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I have done some research into building my own video editing PC. I want to spend about 800 pounds. I will list some of the components I have so far. Any suggestion would be welcomed and appreciated.

ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) Motherboard - £159.98

4 x Kingston 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM Memory - £12.76 each

For CPU I am going to wait for the Ivy Bridge Core 17 to come out

PNY nVIDIA Geforce GTX 570 Graphics Card with 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express

£210.97

I have heard that it does not matter how fast the RAM is but it is more important how much you have. My Mobo can take 2800 Mhz. I have also heard that the graphic card is important when video editing. It acts as a secondary CPU which enhances the performance.

Is all the above information correct?

Thanks

Dominic

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    Harm_Millaard
    Harm_Millaard
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2012

    Have a look  here: Adobe Forums: What PC to build? An update...

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 16, 2012

    About the GPU... http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

    Also be sure you have enough hard drives... I edit AVCHD with 3 drives as a home hobbyist... for professional use you might want more drives, or raid

    My 3 hard drives to edit AVCHD are configured as...

    .

    1 - 320Gig Boot for Win7 64bit Pro and all program installs

    .

    2 - 320Gig data for Win7 paging swap file and video project files

    When I create a project on #2 drive, the various work files follow,

    so my boot drive is not used for the media cache folder and files

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    3 - 1Terabyte data for all video files... input & output files (*)

    (*) for 4 drives, drive 3 all source files & drive 4 all output files

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    Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows paging swap file

    http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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    Anonymous
    April 19, 2012

    Thanks John for the advice on the hardrives and also thanks Harm for showing me your really useful link. According to Harm's 'What PC to build' I may need to consider 4 x ITb. I am new to editing but I would like my build to be at a descent level for a professional level as I have some offers for work. However, this wont be until October. I would like to know why I would need so many drives? I imagine the answer is to do with the size of the video files and of course my work would have to be backed up.

    John you say that you have 3 drives. One for software instillations, other for the editing and lastly for all video files. If I was to buy 4  X 1Tb would it be sensible to have the same structure as your 3 drives with my fourth drive as the backup? Also, could I start of with 1 X 1Tb and do all what I need and then buy the others in the future?

    Anyway, I will wait for your response.

    Cheers in advance

    Dominic 

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 19, 2012

    My 3 drives work for ME as a home hobbyist where the last bit of speed is not required

    The benefit of 4 drives is you have your video INPUT on #3 and OUTPUT on #4 so no waiting while a single video drive switches from reading input to writing output

    Again, the sizes I quote for #1 and #2 work well for me... but, with the small price difference, 4 x 1T is also good

    Do not skimp on case and power supply... you need a full tower case for airflow (lots of case fans) and a "Gold" 850watt power supply

    I built with a mid-tower case, and wish I had gone full tower http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652694

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