RE: HD Video Editing

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stuart,

I run a video production company so know a bit ;) We use Adobe Master
Suite=
CS5 mostly and some of our editors use Final Cut.

What specifically did you want to know?

HD editing is pretty taxing on the CPU and memory - especially consumer
cod=
ec video like AVCHD. It really depends what software (and plugins etc) and
=
what kind of editing you're doing (most importantly) and how fast you
expec=
t it to respond or playback smoothly.

My latest edit PC is a bit of a monster (i7 975x with 34Gb ram and raid
arr=
ays etc) but even that has it's moments! Trouble is, the faster the PC,
the=
more you tend to ask of it with multiple renders running in the background=
and editing at the same time!

Paul.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of S=
tewart
Sent: 08 September 2010 19:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD Video Editing

Geoff,

Thanks for your response to my question.

I suppose I might need to move to either an Intel i5 or i7 processor since
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I'll be editing HD footage.

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Anybody else out there got any experience of editing HD video?

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regards

Stewart

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G=
eoff Hargreaves
Sent: 03 September 2010 13:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HD Video Editing

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I have just undertaken a similar exercise. I went for an Intel i3 530
proce=
ssor (=A376), a Gigabyte GA-H55-UD3H motherboard (=A388) and 4Gb DDR3 RAM
(=
=A365). Funds were limited for this upgrade, hence the choice of an
i3 instead of an i5 (which was double the price) and also for choosing the
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integrated video instead of an external graphics card.

I can't comment on it's HD video editing capabilities as I haven't done
any=
yet, but in normal use the CPU load is tiny and the core temperatures stay=
around 22 deg C. Ripping DVDs and transcoding them, the core temperature r=
ockets up to 36 deg C and processor usage is around 40% ish.

Having transferred from a 3Ghz single core Celeron, my new setup, whilst
mo=
dest compared to some systems, seems so much quicker.

HTH
Geoff

familyberry wrote:
> Help!
> I need to upgrade our PC to cope with editing HD footage from a=20
> recently
aquired HD video camera, so I'm looking for recommendations/advice on CPU,
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motherboard and video card(?). I intend to use Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD
1=
0 editing software.
> I'm not looking for the ultimate, super-duper, fastest system just one
that will give reasonable performance. As always, cost is an issue.
> Any suggestions?
> thanks
> Stewart
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