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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

    .

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

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

    .

    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
    May 7, 2012

    John T Smith wrote:

    About the GPU... http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playba ck-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

    .

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

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

    .

    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

    Hi John,

    your setup inspired me to use a similar three-HDD-version while I wait for harddisk prices to go down - at least a bit.

    "AVCHD" and "hobbyist" sounds fine to me. A pragmatic setup. If it works for you, it might for me too.

    I am on Windows 7 Professional, 32GB Samsung RAM, i7 3930K. 3 WD Black Caviar.

    Q: On your disk 2: Did you partition the disk to force the Page file to run on the fast "outside" of the disk? I have googled the subject of partitioning but the answers are confusing. Some say that the "classic" way of seeing things works fine - and that you get higher performance by placing a partion #1 containing the Page file. And can avoid fragmentation too. Others say that modern HDDs are devided using some kind of a spiral layout and this would make all patitions equally performing.

    So, what is your (and other's) view on this matter? Are you patitioning your drive 2?

    Further:

    Q2: When you directed your swap to disk 2 - did you chose not to have any page file on your disk 1 (for Mem dumps and some (older?) programs that want a pageing file on the system disk)?

    Q3: How big should one guess that the page file should be - considering the RAM amount, processor speed and the AVCHD codecs? Do the old rules still apply - for instance to dubble the RAM amount + 50% extra for security - or is this old school antiques?

    Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

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    Anonymous
    October 28, 2012

    Hi there,

    To anybody who can help.

    In my end title I have used rolling credits in premier pro cs6. However, the writing is blurred and hard on the eye making it difficult to focus on the credits. I have tried to lower the opacity but it hasnt resolved the problem.

    Any suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks

    Dominic


    Hi there,

    To anybody who can help.

    I have a new professional camcorder which creates MTS video files. When I try to import these files into cs6 i am only able to view the visuals but there is no sound.

    If anybody can help it would be much appreciated.

    Dominic

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