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New build for video editing

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April 23, 2018
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I have decided to build my own computer for video editing. I would produce about 3 videos a week, need to have it work relatively quickly, since I run my own business and don’t have time to babysit the rendering, or stop editing vids for hours at a time.

I use premier pro and after effects, usually work with multiple windows open, and import several files/project. I export mainly into mp4 formats, and upload to 3rd party sites. So, I don’t need to be able to edit/render/display more than 1080p.

Ive been reading a lot of the forum recommendations for minimum requirements, and put together the following parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DjFJbX

I’d love to get feedback, particularly on the video card, ram, cpu combination. This would be my first build.

Thanks!

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IlzhuAuthor

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Further adjusted parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/snYJfH

I did read in another forum post that Adobe isn’t testing all the gpu’s so hasnt certified them. In my current parts list I’ve included the gtx 1080. It has vram of 8gb which is supposed to be much more than enough.

Any other issues?

The HDD’s are for a RAID 10 configuration for storage/backup

The SDD is for the OS and software

Peru Bob

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Perhaps RjL190365 or Bill Gehrke could chime in here.

Bill Gehrke

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Well in my opinion I will never buy another hadr disk drive for editing Use them only for backup/archiving with big drives. You have those four noise-macking mechanical heat generating drives which have a mech higher failure rate than one simple SSD. That software RAID is going to use CPU cycles that could be better used by the timeline functions. Also your hard drive slows down significantly as they fill up And lastly they are terribly slow read and write rate performers, even with your RAID you are likely to have transfer ratein th 200 MB/second range where the Simples SATA III SSD those read and write rates probobly will be in the 400 to 500 MB/sec range.

If you have to shave a little off your cost to beef up storage situation drop back to a GTX 1060 6 GB card instead of that GTX 1080. The GTX 1060 would be a better match price/performer with that quad core CPU

IlzhuAuthor

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Cqbt8Y

I updated the video card.

people keep telling me I should be using a 1080ti card. I don’t undersatand why I should, since that’s a card optimized for gaming. I’m doing video production. Shouldn’t I use a card optimized for that purpose? Is it deceptive advertising? Bandwidth doesn’t matter? Am I ignorant of some crucial factor involved in selecting a good video card?

Peru Bob

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I think a hex core, rather than a quad core, processor with hyperthreading would be better for Premiere Pro.

Also, double the RAM.

How do you plan to use those WD HDDs? A large SSD might be better.

What about a backup drive?

IlzhuAuthor

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I was going to do a RAID Setup, for storage/backup. I will remove video I’m done with, so the storage doesn’t need to be huge.

I plan on putting the OS and the Adobe programs on the SSD.

I need more than 16gb of ram for 1080p —-> mp4?

Thats cool if I need it, but I had read that over 16gb ram was for 4K video editing.

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