RE: HD Video Editing

["Stewart" <stewart_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie & Paul,

Thanks for the info on your HD editing setups.

First to answer Paul - what I'm looking for is recommendations regarding
CPU, motherboard and video card that will give me reasonable video editing
performance for our HD home videos. I'll be using Sony Vagas Movie Studio
HD
10 editing software. So far I've only done some fairly basic editing such
as
stitching together clips and adding title pages, etc. Not sure if we'll
progress much further or get more fancy than that really.

Jamie,

I've not considered SSDs but, as you say, they're very expensive, so
probably beyond my present budget.



As always, cost is an issue so, like you,  I'm looking for the best bang
for
my bucks.



regards

Stewart



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jamie Whitehorn
Sent: 08 September 2010 23:50
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD Video Editing





Hi Stuart,

I'm editing AVCHD from my Canon HS200. I use a i7 930 CPU on a Gigabyte
GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard with 6GB RAM and a pair of Intel 60GB SSDs. The
setup was primarily built to edit photos but also gets used to edit our
home
videos. The software I use is Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 (I tried Adobe
Premiere Elements 8 but didn't really get on with it). The build was a
trade
off of cost vs performance. I wanted the best bang for my bucks. I really
needed the performance to be quick because we can be editing a thousand
photos in a block and each second you take off the time it takes to edit
one
photo saves you 16 minutes of the total.

OK, a fairly extreme system - though not as good as Paul's :-). But I found
one of the biggest differences was made by the SSDs. If the video files and
the temporary files are on the SSD things speed up alot. Obviously SSDs are
expensive and low capacity so as soon as we've finished editing we move the
video files off to normal disk. If you do decided to look at SSDs be sure
to
read the reviews, not all are equal in performance.

HTH, Jamie


--------------- Original message ---------------
Original msg sent Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:19:52 +0000 by Paul Gale
>
>
> 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 codec 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 expect it to respond or playback
> smoothly.
>
> My latest edit PC is a bit of a monster (i7 975x with 34Gb ram and
> raid arrays 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.
>



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