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Kurisbacom
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October 27, 2017
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Two PC - One Editing. One Recording.

  • October 27, 2017
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Hey!

I have two PC's in my room. They are both decent, one is a completely new build, and the other one is my old/spare pc.
I want to know is it possible to edit footage from PC#1 on PC#2. Without having to upload to the cloud? I don't have the internet speeds to be uploading and downloading to cloud software. trying to keep it local.

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P.s.
I don't want to get a video recorder hardware such as Elgato HD60 Pro. But if there is no other way, I will bite my tongue and get one.

Cheers!

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excited_Genie16B8
Legend
October 28, 2017

I don't want to get a video recorder hardware such as Elgato HD60 Pro.

I would actually recommend something more...robust...for screen capture you intend to edit in professional software.

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Bill Gehrke
Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
October 27, 2017

First question, I hope you are not thinking of editing while recording are you?  If you have a previously recorded video file on your old computer and just want to edit after it is recorded using a second computer why not just physically transfer that file to your second newer computer to edit it.  Depending on how old it is and the exact detailed configuration it is hard to say you could edit a file on the new computer while it is resident on the old computer.

We need alot more details on your workflow, media and hardware configurations.

Second look are you post, I guess since you mention "Elgato HD60 Pro" you are thinking of recording games and maybe you are asking is there some other way to accomplish this without spending $185 on that device.  .

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KurisbacomAuthor
Participant
October 28, 2017

"First question, I hope you are not thinking of editing while recording are you?"
No, I don't plan on editing while recording.

"why not just physically transfer that file to your second newer computer to edit it."
Trying to limit my transfer time. Either could pull the data across my network instead of xxxxxx round with HDD/USBs.

"We need a lot more details on your workflow, media and hardware configurations.

Both running up-to-date software.
PC#1 - CPU:  I7 7700K - 32GB Ram - 1080Ti
PC#2 - CPU:  I7 3770K - 16GB Ram - 960

"Second look are you post, I guess since you mention "Elgato HD60 Pro" you are thinking of recording games"
Yes.

Bill Gehrke
Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
October 28, 2017

I have a laptop and a desktop and my preferred workflow is different than yours as I edit on the laptop with all my media and project files on on a Samsung T3 (or the newer T5) portable USB3 SSD and then move the USB drive to the desktop.  I would avoid trying to share across the network or even using any hard disk drive in the process.  Since both your systems should have USB3.0 ports just capture directly to the portable SSD and grab it and move to your edit computer and open a project directly on the the portable USB device.

Here is the performance of my T3, notice the 400 MB/s sequential read and write rates which is 2 to4 times faster than hard disk drives

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