Casual video editing, help on parts required.

Footyslayer

Footyslayer

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Hi all,

my father in law is looking to upgrade his CPU, motherboard and ram as he wants to do video editing. His current system takes 45 minutes to render a 30 second clip.

Current spec is :
- Intel I7-3770
- Gigabyte B75M-D3H
- 16GB Mushkin DDR3 10600 - 667MHz running at 1333MHz
- XFX Radeon HD 6670 graphics card.

He has not given me a budget per say but wants his video editing to render at an acceptable time frame, I guess an average timeframe for casual editors? It isn't heavy video editing but more family orientated videos. Also to be future proofed fo around 5 years before the system starts slowing down with new editing software and methods.

Can anybody please recommend some parts that I can put together for him?

Cheers :)
 
Footyslayer said:
Hi sorry for the delay,

he is running a "Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB 5900rpm 64MB Cache SATA lll" connected to the mobo on a SATA 6GBs port.
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That could be mainly the reason it takes so long as it has to read and then write dsta to the same old drive.

Working and writing on an ssd should vastly improve things and then transfer the file at leasure. Remember it's still an old drive so transferring may take some time.

My suggestion would be to grab a 1tb ssd for £85 and clone or reinstall Windows and programmes. You have nothing to loose by getting a ssd as you can always take it to a new build.

Ssd make sure you connect to the sata 3 (6gb) port on the motherboard to get the fastest speed.

Macrium reflect is a free cloning software

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Use the old hard drive as storage.
 
Footyslayer said:
Hi all,

my father in law is looking to upgrade his CPU, motherboard and ram as he wants to do video editing. His current system takes 45 minutes to render a 30 second clip.

Current spec is :
- Intel I7-3770
- Gigabyte B75M-D3H
- 16GB Mushkin DDR3 10600 - 667MHz running at 1333MHz
- XFX Radeon HD 6670 graphics card.

He has not given me a budget per say but wants his video editing to render at an acceptable time frame, I guess an average timeframe for casual editors? It isn't heavy video editing but more family orientated videos. Also to be future proofed fo around 5 years before the system starts slowing down with new editing software and methods.

Can anybody please recommend some parts that I can put together for him?

Cheers :)
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Budget? You have 3900x this would speed things up no end...
 
mickyflinn said:
That could be mainly the reason it takes so long as it has to read and then write dsta to the same old drive.

Working and writing on an ssd should vastly improve things and then transfer the file at leasure. Remember it's still an old drive so transferring may take some time.

My suggestion would be to grab a 1tb ssd for £85 and clone or reinstall Windows and programmes. You have nothing to loose by getting a ssd as you can always take it to a new build.

Ssd make sure you connect to the sata 3 (6gb) port on the motherboard to get the fastest speed.

Macrium reflect is a free cloning software

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Use the old hard drive as storage.
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Thank you for that, any particular brand recommended,Samsung Evo etc?


easyrider said:
Not in encoding video...the cpu is the bottleneck...

Having a video on one drive and rendering to another is the correct practice...but encoding is all about the cpu...
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It's an i7 but indeed quite old now. To get the latest he would be looking at COU, motherboard and DDR. Any opinions on which brands are better for this sort of workload?
 
mickyflinn said:
This would be fine.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...gbps-3d-nand-solid-state-drive-hd-00j-tg.html

I would sugest you Google the impact of ssd for video editing.
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You misunderstand video editing and video encoding....I do it for a living...I have built hundreds of pc’s for video editing....

SSDS and Nvme Drives are good for Video throughput and copying video files from disk to another when it comes to rendering the finished edit...it’s all cpu...

You have one drive for Windows, one drive for Video one drive as a scratch disk and one drive for the output file...

I don’t need to google...
 
easyrider said:
You misunderstand video editing and video encoding....I do it for a living...I have built hundreds of pc’s for video editing....

SSDS and Nvme Drives are good for Video throughput and copying video files from disk to another when it comes to rendering the finished edit...it’s all cpu...

You have one drive for Windows, one drive for Video one drive as a scratch disk and one drive for the output file...

I don’t need to google...
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My comment was for the original.poster hence the recommendation for an sdd and c drive

Thanks for the clarifying a few things.
 
i was told it would be best to wait until the 5000 series of cpus before investing heavily but im going to build before then with a stopgap cpu

might be a better idea than buying a 3900 x right off the bat ?
 
if its casual editing I do not think that time constraints when rendering are a problem.
if you are getting the performance that you are happy with when doing actual editing then do not upgrade..
otherwise a budget friendly upgrade would be a r5 3600, b450 mobo and some nice 3200mhz ram with decent timings
 
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